I fear that in this effort, the Toronto Star's Haroon Siddiqui is being less intellectually honest than he is capable of being.

The Observer's blurb: "With Valentine's Day looming and no sign of romance in London, Will Hide brushes up his Hugh Grant impersonation and heads to New York, dating capital of the world. They'll fall at his feet. Won't they?"

Haroon Siddiqui made some arguments in his Feb. 9 Toronto Star column about the cartoon controversy that bear some questioning.

BBC: Thousands attend pro-Islam protest (in London)

BBC: Prayer mats lined the pavement (behind-the-scenes look at the above protest)

BBC: Danes in Indonesia 'under threat'

BBC: Islam-West divide 'grows deeper' (Malaysian PM)

CTV.ca: Canadian Muslims protest against caricatures

This is an excellent piece of reportage by The Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders, looking at two prominent Danish Muslims: Naser Khader -- a liberal, secular, cultural Muslim -- and Ahmed Akkari, a conservative fundamentalist and driving force behind the protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.

A film about the U.S. military in Iraq that one of its makers says is "only 60 to 70 per cent" true is packing them into the multiplexes in Turkey.