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Pakistani protesters rally against newspaper caricatures of the prophet Mohammed in Peshawar, Feb 7, 2006. ((Tariq Mahmood/AFP/Getty Images))
The cartoon of the prophet Muhammad sparked much debate about the limits of press freedoms, but there are still many unanswered questions, like why was there a caricature contest in a Danish paper in the first place? Plus: a look at the many faces of the Iraqi insurgency, the flip side of Valentine's Day, and your calls
Un-Funny Papers
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, Director of the Institute of African Studies at SIPA and author, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Pantheon, 2004)
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Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Washington bureau chief of the ...
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Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Washington bureau chief of the ...
The Flip Side of Valentine's Day
Anna Jane Grossman, co-author
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Flint Wainess co-author, It's Not ME, It's YOU: The Ultimate Breakup Guide (Da Capo Press 2006)
- say that breaking up isn't so hard to do
» It's NOT me, it's YOU! (da Capo)
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Flint Wainess co-author, It's Not ME, It's YOU: The Ultimate Breakup Guide (Da Capo Press 2006)
- say that breaking up isn't so hard to do
» It's NOT me, it's YOU! (da Capo)
Incomprehensible Insurgency?
Zaki Chehab, political editor of Al Hayat and LBC TV and author,
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Loretta Napoleoni, economist and author, Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation (Seven Stories Press, 2005)
-try to understand the Insurgency in Iraq
» Inside the Resistance: The Iraq ...
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Loretta Napoleoni, economist and author, Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation (Seven Stories Press, 2005)
-try to understand the Insurgency in Iraq
» Inside the Resistance: The Iraq ...
Open Phones
your calls on Grandpa Munster, James Frey, and stretching the truth
Cartoon Catastrophe
Subject: Mistakes, Misstatements and Half-truths, Oh My!
Again, your guest from the German newsweekly is playing fast and loose with the truth.
As of 2001, according the U.S. Department of State, there was _no_ Muslim cemetery in Denmark. (State noted this as part of its human rights
assessment.) Whether Danes have allowed one since I do not know.
A number of Christian cemeteries have allowed Muslim sections -- generous, but which failed to meet full Muslim religious requirements.
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Estrogen: Good For You, Or Maybe Bad For You
Google News proves it again: the news is what you make of it.
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