Kill the Critic

The Glories of Rome

Also Schluss Jetzt Mit dem Fernsehturm

Cartoon Riots, Still

S.P.Q.R.

Berlin's 750th Birthday, 2

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Berlin's 750th Birthday Celebration

The Roots of the Cartoon Riots

The Arab world, though, isn't being given the full story ... One group of Danish Muslims, led by a young imam named Ahmed Akkari, grew so frustrated by the inability of Muslims to get their message across in Denmark that they compiled a dossier of racist and culturally insensitive images circulating in the country and took them on an road show in the Arab World to raise awareness of the discrimination they faced ... Quist says the dossier included three obscene caricatures -- one showed Muhammad as a pedophile, another as a pig and the last depicted a praying Muslim being raped by a dog.

"The drawings in Jyllands-Posten were harmless compared to these," he says.

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Restraint

What Muslims Think of the Danish Muhammed Cartoon Deal

The Spanish Pogues

Fernsehturm, Fernsehturm

How Not to See America

You meet Sharon Stone and John Kerry and a woman who once weighed 488 pounds and an obese couple carrying rifles, but there's nobody here whom you recognize. In more than 300 pages, nobody tells a joke. Nobody does much work. Nobody sits and eats and enjoys their food. You've lived all your life in America, never attended a megachurch or a brothel, don't own guns, are non-Amish, and it dawns on you that this is a book about the French.