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Brooke Gladstone is out this week. I'm Cheny Jardin.

And I'm Bob Garfield. There is no such thing as a global First Amendment or an international

protocol on free speech. This has been crystallized in the fallout over a set of Danish

cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The cartoons were first published in the Danish paper

Yilan's post in September, and among other things, one depicts the prophet

with a bomb-shaped turban. Muslims were shocked to see the images. It is against tradition to

depict the prophet in any way. The newspaper apologized, and for some Muslim leaders in Denmark,

that apology was good enough, but not for others in Muslim countries.

Throughout the Muslim world, there have been boycotts of Danish goods and demands for

more apologies from the Danish Prime Minister. This week, papers throughout Western Europe reprinted

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