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Thursday, January 31, 2008

You'll Find that Under "C" for Controversy

It seems the Danes are going to preserve those incendiary Muhammad cartoons for posterity by housing them in the Royal Library.

The cartoons, you'll remember, ran in a Danish newspaper and sparked violent riots all over the world, but espeically among aggrieved European Muslims who thought they insulted Islam's prophet.

We hope we can secure all of the works to preserve them for the future. The caricatures have become a part of Danish history,” Jytte Kjaergaard, a Royal Library spokeswoman, told The Art Newspaper.

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