Originally Posted by Dragonlich

Seaver, why should the newspaper apologize and fire the editor? Because Muslims are upset? Screw that. It's a Danish newspaper; it's published in a secular, democratic, NON-MUSLIM country. If Muslims don't like it, so be it. tough luck. I'm not willing to give up my rights just to please a bunch of extremists.

...but perhaps my feelings over this are a bit distorted; after all, I live in the Netherlands, where a film maker/columnist (Theo van Gogh) was murdered by a Muslim for "insulting Islam". So much for mutual respect...