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3 Arrested for Plot to Kill Muhammad Cartoonist

February 12th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • [Al Jazeera, Art News Blog, see also Religion News Blog] Three suspects will stand trial for plotting to kill Kurt Westergaard, “who has been accused of being both anti-Semitic and anti-Christian in the past” and who drew one of the infamous cartoons of Muhammad.
  • [NY Times] Does some art make you sick? Dr. Robert Ferrell might be to blame for giving bacteria to his artist friend Steven Kurtz.
  • [NPR] A Singapore line of Jesus cosmetics is no more.
  • [NY Times, HT: DMN Religion Blog] The bible: the graphic novel, including a samurai Jesus. “It is the end of the Word as we know it,” says a religion professor of the Japanese animated (Manga) biblical tales, which reveal a Jesus who is quite different from “the gentle, blue-eyed Christ of old Hollywood movies and illustrated Bibles.”

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