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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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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.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Marx, Communism, Totalitarianism; Muhammed, Islam, Terrorism — I'm glad that the U.S. State Department condemned cartoons which offended many Muslims. That's their job. They are the official face of the American government to the world. And kudos to President Bush for condemning them.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Contrived Cartoon Network — It appears that the controversy over the Prophet cartoons has been somewhat artificially enhanced by Muslim imams in Denmark, according to the London Telegraph. Numerous readers and commenters have pointed towards this article by Charles Moore …
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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.
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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.
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.
Christopher Caldwell / Financial Times:The reality of cartoon violence
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:THE BOSTON GLOBE ON SPEECH OFFENSIVE TO DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS GROUPS …
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Washington Post:
Surveillance Net Yields Few Suspects — NSA's Hunt for Terrorists Scrutinizes Thousands of Americans, but Most Are Later Cleared — Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly …
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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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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" …
Reuters:
Merkel likens Iran threat to Nazi era — MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel likened Iran's nuclear plans on Saturday to the threat posed by the Nazis in their early days, as top U.S. officials urged a tough line to stop Tehran from making an atomic bomb.
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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.
BBC:
Two Jordan editors are arrested — Two Jordanian newspaper editors who published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have been arrested. — Jihad Momani and Hisham Khalidi are accused of insulting religion under Jordan's press and publications law. — Mr Momani was fired from the weekly Shihan …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:DANISH EMBASSY BURNED in Syria. Gateway Pundit has a roundup.
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Right Wing Nut House:
MORE LAZY REPORTING FROM THE MEDIA — As I have written many times, what appears to be media bias can instead actually be an institutional laziness on the part of reporters or even groups of reporters. In these cases, there is little effort made to explain an issue or event and put …
David Rising / Associated Press:
Senators McCain and Lieberman cozy up at Munich conference — MUNICH, Germany — It was no surprise when U.S. senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman pulled chairs up next to one another Saturday to hear what German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to say at a prestigious defense conference.
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neo-neocon:
Tolerance and intolerance: the anti-cartoon jihad — So far I haven't written about the recent uproar sparked by the publication of cartoon depictions of Mohammed. It's been covered so thoroughly by others that there wasn't anything I felt I needed to add.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Biggest Base in Iraq Has Small-Town Feel — BALAD, Iraq — Staff Sgt. Chad Twigg is on a one-year tour of duty in the middle of the Sunni Triangle. But on a recent winter morning, he wasn't digging a foxhole or tracking an enemy sniper or trying to grab some sleep between firefights.
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Associated Press:
Feminist Author Betty Friedan Dies at 85 — WASHINGTON - Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85. — Friedan died at her home of congestive heart failure …
