... He told the AFP news service he decided to publish the offending cartoons "so people know what they are protesting about... People are attacking drawings that they have not even seen."

France, Germany, Spain also publish

... To date, the Danish government has refused to apologize. While it says the views expressed by the newspaper did not reflect its own, it has consistently insisted on defending the right to freedom of expression.

... So far, newspapers in France, Germany and Spain as well as Norway have reprinted the caricatures -- some in solidarity with the Danish publication on the issue of press freedom, and some as an "illustration" of articles about the issue.

In addition to the ongoing diplomatic crisis heating up, with ambassadors being recalled and threats issued, Denmark's foreign minister has said the European newspapers' actions threaten to worsen the Muslim world's ongoing boycott against Denmark unleashed by the cartoons.

"One can expect that the boycott will spread further. There are still countries that have not held their Friday prayer sessions about this question, and now countries like France, Germany and Austria have published the drawings," Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller told the Boersen financial daily.

"This could heat things up further," he added.

The Muslim rage intensified on Wednesday when France Soir, alongside the 12 original cartoons, printed a new drawing on its front page showing Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy figures sitting on a cloud, with the caption "Don't worry Muhammad, we've all been caricatured here" (don't these people have anything else to do?).

In another example of Muslim tolerance and peaceful intent, The leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon revived the 1988 controversy over The Satanic Verses and said that no-one would dare to insult Muslims today had the death fatwa against author Salman Rushdie been carried out (these people are really really sick).

And in yet another sampling of tolerance from the "religion of peace" (sic, sic, sic,), the Muslim owner (left image) of the France Soir newspaper has fired the Paris newspaper's editor for publishing controversial cartoons making fun of Islam: "Owner Raymond Lakah's decision to fire Jacques Lefranc drew an angry response from both editorial staff and members of Parliament." France Soir said it had published the "incriminating caricatures" because "no religious dogma can impose itself on a democratic and secular society".

But this concept totally escapes the minds of France's Muslims - "French Muslims to Sue Paper Over Cartoons."

But let's not stop here describing the reaction of our tolerant and peaceful Muslim friends across the globe to a series of cartoons. Aljazeera is reporting that "armed groups in the Palestinian territories have threatened to attack Danish, French and Norwegian nationals after cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad appeared in European newspapers."

In response to these "people's" rage, Newspapers across Europe have reprinted cartoons ridiculing the prophet Muhammad, saying they wanted to support the right of Danish and Norwegian papers to publish caricatures that have ignited anger among Muslims.

As for Muslims cramming their beliefs down the throats of non-Muslims, the non-Muslim world is seeing the true colors of those Muslims that exist in a medieval world, a society and culture of violence, narrow-mindedness, hatred of those who disagree with them, and a psychological and societal inability to cope with modern society.

Readers need to be sure to read "Comic Outrage" at The American Thinker for a great perspective on the issue.

Robert Spencer published all of the cartoons at FrontPage Magazine, where he says, "These cartoons are much less offensive than what is routinely printed in every American newspaper about presidents, presidential candidates, and other pols. Yet strange as it may seem to Western non-Muslims, the rage over them seems to grow with each passing day -- until the global scale of the response to it has now involved ambassadors from many countries, the United Nations, international boycotts, and the threatening of utterly innocent businesspeople and embassy personnel. Here they are:

Spencer also provides a few recent examples of the Muslim craziness.

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