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...acrobats on gossamer thread, there was a poetry-spouting Yoko Ono (who knew she was Italian?). The only thing missing was Torino's famous shroud, said to have covered Jesus. The Olympics are about the pride of the host country, but the Games also bring in worldly anxieties. Danish athletes reportedly received special protection because of the global swirl of threats surrounding the publication of cartoons Muslims consider insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Some 400 antiglobalization protesters burned U.S. and Olympic flags in downtown Torino just a few hours before the opening ceremonies, as Italian security officials voiced concern about...
Reminders of the harsher realities were perceptible, however. The Olympics are about the pride of the host country, but the Games also bring in worldly and cruel anxieties. Danish athletes reportedly received special protection because of the global swirl of threats surrounding the publication of cartoons inimical to the Prophet Muhammad. Everywhere in Torino and around the stadium, soldiers and police were visible. And until the disco music drowned them out, helicopters whirred loudly over the proceedings...
...marchers in Kabul last week were in their teens and early 20s, the kind of zealous, energetic youths Westerners might have hoped would be clamoring for democracy or human rights. Instead, the cause of their protest was caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, first published last September by a Danish newspaper called Jyllands-Posten, which in the past two weeks have provoked Muslims around the world to denounce not just the offending illustrators but also French newspaper editors, Norwegian diplomats, U.S. troops in Iraq and peddlers of Danish food. In Kabul the protest signs read DEATH TO DENMARK and DEATH...
...genuine outrage at the perceived desecration of the most revered figure in Islam. Yet even for Westerners sympathetic to Muslims' right to vent their anger, the mayhem that marked the protests last week was as unsettling as the cartoons themselves. A day after mobs in Damascus torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies, rioters set fire to the Danish consulate in Beirut; Iranians hurled gasoline bombs at Denmark's embassy in Tehran and smashed the windows of Austria's. In Afghanistan a protest outside a U.S. military base left two people dead after local police opened fire on the crowd; nine...
...suddenly besieged European allies, the Bush team ratcheted up the rhetoric. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "There is no excuse for violence," and she accused regimes in Iran and Syria of deliberately stirring up anti-Western sentiment. Aboard Air Force One last Tuesday, President George W. Bush phoned Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, with whom Bush has a close relationship, to stress Washington's solidarity and "buck him up," says a senior Administration official. But Bush aides acknowledge that the cartoon uproar has been an unwelcome distraction at a time when the U.S. is fighting insurgencies...