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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".
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.
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
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get rid of the Danes, you'll have to keep paying the Danegeld — It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there.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.
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.
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.
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
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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Balloon Juice, Hullabaloo, 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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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" …
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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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 …
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 …
