Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Thousands Riot in Pakistan Over Cartoons

			November 26, 2009 Log in / Register
			Text Size

Obama's Thankless Thanksgiving

Still Doing God's Work on Wall Street

Colbert Conservatives and Military Waste

Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

Age Trumps Youth in UC Tuition Dispute

Obama’s Thankless Thanksgiving
By E.J. Dionne

Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’
By Joe Conason

Mammogram Backlash Is About Mistrust
By Ellen Goodman

Colbert Conservatives and Military Waste
By David Sirota

Larry’s List

Report: Obama to Expand Afghan War by 50 Percent

New Kind of Power Plant Gets Energy From Salt Water

Obama to Make a Cameo in Copenhagen

Google Goes to Iraq

There’s More to Hate Crime Stats Than Meets the Eye

U.N. Combats Violence Against Women, With Help From Men

Palin Still Gets Huckabee’s Vote (Against Obama)

Home Sales Jump 10.1% in October

‘Left, Right & Center’: The Geithner-Summers Backlash; Is Palin Dangerous?

Swiss Court Accepts Polanski’s $4.5M Bail Request

Sarkozy’s Bid to Move Camus’ Ashes Stirs Controversy

Lambert’s ‘AMA’ Act Costs Him ‘GMA’ Gig

The Guantanamo Lawyers: Shipwrecked
By Baher Azmy

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Vetting Sarah Palin

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

By Morris Dickstein
$19.77

Thousands Riot in Pakistan Over Cartoons

Posted on Feb 15, 2006

AP:

Some key developments Tuesday in the prophet drawings controversy:

* Thousands of protesters rampage through two cities in Pakistan, storming into a diplomatic district and torching Western businesses and a provincial assembly in the country’s worst violence against the prophet drawings. At least two people are killed and 11 injured.

* The provincial council in the Iraqi city of Basra demands the withdrawal of Denmark’s 530-member military contingent from southern
Iraq unless the Danish government apologizes for the publication of the drawings. The cartoons were first printed in a Danish paper.

Truthdig says:

Will this madness ever end?

More Below the Ad