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Yamani or Your Life: A nasty attempt to coerce Danish newspapers into apologizing for the cartoons o

By Christopher Hitchens
Posted: March 9, 2010.

Print: Slate

An excerpt from the Saudi law firm suing the Danish newspapers:

Over the past months my law firm has been contacted by several thousand descendants of the Prophet, who have learned about your newspaper’s republication of the drawing, depicting their esteemed ancestor as a terrorist suicide bomber with a bomb in his turban. As descendants of the Prophet, these individuals feel personally insulted, emotionally distressed and defamed by your newspaper’s re-publication of the drawing.

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1. Sir Crispin IV

Kinda makes you wonder about the quality of the legal education one receives in the Kingdom.

posted on March 9, 2010
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If anyone knows how to go about purchasing some posters (or comparable reproductions) of the famous Danish cartoons, please leave a comment.  I would like to be ready for the next International Blasphemy Day.  Thank you.

posted on March 14, 2010
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