As I said, this certainly puts more weight behind the idea that we are really looking at a controversy with two phases: the second of which, I quite strongly back the stand you have chosen to take (even though I think you are too glib in dismissing the context of the first).

BTW, just heard the Danish embassy in Lebanon has been torched. Protests spreading - in Iraq, India, and elsewhere. Not good.

What happened is that the delegation of imams that toured the Middle East in December last year brought along three images which had been hatemailed to them by Danish bigots (though they originate from the US and Israel). By their own admission they included these at the back of the album with the JP drawings, ostensibly to demonstrate the level of prejudice against Muslims in Denmark. According to the imams, they had no blame for the misunderstanding that arose. According to their critics, they very much did.

In general, one should take Ekstra Bladet with a grain of salt; this is the sort of trashy tabloid that everyone wrongly accuses Jyllands-Posten of being. But this particular story is well documented.

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