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A lovely feature story about the guy behind the Afghani Bloggers Association. Nasim Fekrat has taught himself many things and is really an inspiration to us all.

"I believe blogging will change things," he says.

:: Recommended at Slate.

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Offended: The case of Dutch cartoonist
Gregorius Nekschot is written up by Andrew Higgins:

The contrasting Danish and Dutch responses "show that there is a serious struggle of ideas going on for the future of Europe," says Flemming Rose, a Danish newspaper editor who commissioned the drawings of Muhammad in Jyllands-Posten. At stake, he says, is whether democracy protects the right to offend or embraces religious taboos so that "citizens have a right not to be offended."

:: From WSJ ::

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