Thursday, February 09, 2006

A sensible defence

A thought-provoking piece about the recent riots over the "anti-Muslim" cartoons published by Danish newspapers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1705688,00.html

And a wonderful satire on the offence you could take, if you were looking to take offence:

http://muttawa.blogspot.com/2006/02/memo.html

1 comment:

PJ Miller said...

I was just going to draw your attention to the Timmy Garton Ash piece. I wonder whether the idea of open debate is as offensive as the cartoons to those who want to be offended. I se ehe has his own forum to discuss these things, but I might get browbeaten there.