Two conservatives -- Ezra Levant, publisher of the Western Standard, and Scott Anderson, editor in chief of the Ottawa Citizen -- debated the cartoons issue on CBC's The Current today.

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The Globe and Mail's Marcus Gee rips Western governments for their timid response to the Muslim world's reaction to the Muhammad cartoons.

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The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias wrote her treeware column today on Kim Bolan. She's the Vancouver Sun reporter who's toiled long and hard on the Air India bombing file.

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A number of former Chinese Communist Party officials have grouped their voices to protest the decision to close Freezing Point, a popular news journal.

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Cartoonist Shahid Mahmood on the cartoon crisis. He finds fault with both sides.

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Fouad Ajami, director of Middle Eastern studies at Johns Hopkins University, on the cartoons crisis in the Grano lecture.

An excerpt from the Toronto Star transcript of his talk:

If you want to live in a liberal society, you have to be willing to be offended. And these people (Muslims) are not willing to be offended. They don't understand the nature of life in a modern society. They are in the West, as I always have said about them, but they are not of the West.

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The Toronto Star's Richard Gwyn columnized Tuesday on the cartoons crisis and various high-profile acts of religious disrespect by Muslims and Christians alike.

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