After the Danish Cartoon Controversy
Middle East QuarterlyWinter 2007
http://www.meforum.org/article/1437
Pernille Ammitzbøll and Lorenzo Vidino
"Like the Salman Rushdie affair before it and the furor over Pope Benedict XVI's remarks at Regensburg University after it, the cartoon controversy had less to do with genuine outrage over the depiction of Islam's prophet and more to do with the ambitions, first, of a small group of radical imams and, later, of jousting Middle Eastern powers. Now that the dust has settled, what is the legacy of the crisis, not only for Denmark but also for the Western world?"