Keeping myself uptodate, extending the conversation on the crisis regarding the Danish cartoons that a lot of Muslims deem offensive:

My friend Selmin, being from Turkey and now in the US for her PhD took up my invitation and shared her perspective on the issue. A quote of her that I like best sums up the idiocy of the whole issue:

“Personally, I’ve grown equally sick of the Western symbolic violence (continously assaulting Eastern values and mocking their sensibilities in every opportunity) and Eastern terrorism, that finds excuse for violence in every stupid act, lately.”

My classmate Susan sent me a website that gives an insight on how professional cartoonists themselves think about it. And finally, Global Voices has done a wonderful job translating and bringing us a wide diversity of voices from the Arabic blogosphere that brings a much richer voice to this issue than how the Western media is portraying them: e.g. Muslim people have a wider range of reactions than just burning the Danish embassy, or saying ‘nah nah’ and being totally childish back.