1.0City of Brasshttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/cityofbrassAziz Poonawallahttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/cityofbrass/author/apoonawallaCartoon controversies and radical imams - City of Brassrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="uZo0pZjIpR"><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/cityofbrass/2010/09/cartoon-controversies-and-radi.html">Cartoon controversies and radical imams</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/cityofbrass/2010/09/cartoon-controversies-and-radi.html/embed#?secret=uZo0pZjIpR" width="600" height="338" title="“Cartoon controversies and radical imams” — City of Brass" data-secret="uZo0pZjIpR" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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A number of articles have been written about Park51 that drew some manner of analogy to the Danish Cartoon controversy (or as Abu Aardvark called it, the Cartoon StupidStorm). But none have made such an insight into the parallel as Lawrence Wright at The New Yorker – his somewhat blandly titled piece may possibly be…