1.0 link 15026 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-de-zengotita/dilemmas-for-progressives_b_15026.html Ok, I'm sure most of you are aware of this, but here's the nutshell: "a Danish newspaper that had inspired a huge outcry in the Islamic world by publishing" cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that put him in "an unflattering light" has just been supported by other European papers that republished the cartoons in order to express free-speech defiant solidarity with that Danish paper, which came under various threats of violent retaliation (remember Rushdie's fatwa?) and actual retaliation in the...

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