1. Next week, blasphemy gets its own holiday
(Religion/Atheism)

...y Day because it is the anniversary of the 2005 publication of the controversial Muhammad cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The cartoons resulted in worldwide riots by outraged Muslims...

2. It's not what the papers say, it's what they don't
(Medicine/General)

...lbye in the December 1 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. They examined 871,234 children in a Danish birth cohort, comparing asthma in those who had MMR against those who didn't. MMR-v...

3. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... in Kabul. It must be said, however, that nothing has yet occurred to rival the ferocious response to the Danish cartoons. Meanwhile Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists, threatened to sue ...

4. Archbishop of Canterbury calls for new law to punish 'thoughtless or cruel' words
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ened the author with death. He also seems to think that those who created lethal street protests over the Danish cartoons had a point. “The Archbishop’s speech is, at base, self-serving an...

5. Violence fear over Islam film
(Religion/General)

...and officials, fearing a repetition of the crisis sparked by the publication of cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper two years ago, have held a series of crisis meetings and ordered counter-terr...