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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Identity Politics, Free Speech, and the Future of worldwide Liberalism, 2: a follow-up — From Islam Online: … [all emphases mine] — Note the bolded text, because it draws clear (if to be expected) lines of demarcation between the actions of the rival "protest" groups:
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Boston Globe:
Forms of intolerance — FREEDOM OF expression is not the only value at issue in the conflict provoked by a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons satirizing Islam's founding prophet, Mohammed. The billowing controversy is being swept along by intolerance, ignorance, and parochialism.
BBC:
Embassies burn in cartoon protest — Syrians have set fire to the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus to protest at the publication of newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. — Angry protesters attacked the Norwegian mission after storming the Danish site amid chants of "God is great".
Charles Moore / Telegraph:
If you get rid of the Danes, you'll have to keep paying the Danegeld — It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there. Not much demand, I suppose. I raise the question because, as soon as the row about the cartoons …
Guardian:
Cartoon controversy spreads throughout Muslim world — Cartoon row spreads — Governments across Europe, the Middle East and Asia were reluctantly sucked into the Danish cartoon row yesterday as hundreds of thousands of Muslims took to the streets to protest. — The dispute spread to London for the first time.
Associated Press:
Cartoon row: Danish embassy ablaze — DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish Embassy in Damascus Saturday and set fire to the building, witnesses said. — The demonstrators were protesting offensive caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
DANISH EMBASSY BURNED in Syria. Gateway Pundit has a roundup. This really is a case of civilization against the barbarians. The good news is that moderate Muslims are standing up for civilization: … The bad news is that the Boston Globe is siding with the barbarians, comparing the Danish cartoonists to Nazis.
Albert Aji / Associated Press:
Syrians Torch Embassies Over Caricatures — DAMASCUS, Syria - Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam's revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus on Saturday — the most violent in days of furious protests by Muslims in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Gateway Pundit:Danish Embassy Torched in Syria!
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THE ASTUTE BLOGGER, In the Bullpen, Freedom for Egyptians, The Moderate Voice and Publius Pundit
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:THE BOSTON GLOBE ON SPEECH OFFENSIVE TO DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS GROUPS …
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The Mahablog
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Cartoon Debate — The case for mocking religion. — As well as being a small masterpiece of inarticulacy and self-abnegation, the statement from the State Department about this week's international Muslim pogrom against the free press was also accidentally accurate.
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Decision '08
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:Marx, Communism, Totalitarianism; Muhammed, Islam, Terrorism
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
NASA Chief Backs Agency Openness — A week after NASA's top climate scientist complained that the space agency's public-affairs office was trying to silence his statements on global warming, the agency's administrator, Michael D. Griffin, issued a sharply worded statement yesterday calling for …
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Hullabaloo, Balloon Juice, The Majority Report, Dynamics of Cats, World O'Crap and Amygdala
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Washington Post:
U.N. Nuclear Agency Reports Iran to Security Council — Move Signals Growing Unease About Nation's Nuclear Program — VIENNA, Feb. 4 — The United Nations nuclear agency reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council on Saturday, signaling growing worldwide unease about the nature and intent …
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Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
Iran is world's top sponsor of terrorism: Rumsfeld — MUNICH (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran on Saturday of being the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, a charge that his Iranian counterpart rejected as "ridiculous" and "outrageous."
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Mike Allen / Time:
How Gonzales Plans to Defend Eavesdropping — TIME Exclusive: Attorney General will tell Senators that wiretaps target suspects, not innocents … Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales plans to use a Congressional hearing on Monday to lash out at "misinformed, confused" …
New York Times:
Oil Graft Fuels the Insurgency, Iraq and U.S. Say — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 4 — Iraqi and American officials say they are seeing a troubling pattern of government corruption enabling the flow of oil money and other funds to the insurgency and threatening to undermine Iraq's struggling economy.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail — Soon companies will have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers. — America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts …
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary …
