The cartoons certainly are offensive--to those offended by them. That can include Americans who are no Muslim as well as Muslims who are not American. I'm not offended by the cartoons, but only found a couple of them actually amusing. The rest were, you know, just obvious.

Stating that the cartoons are offensive isn't taking sides about whether or not they should have been published. In fact, State says that freedom of speech trumps, even offensive speech. But it also points out that just because you have the right doesn't mean you have the requirement to exercise it.

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Meanwhile, the demonstrators are showing you exactly where they're coming from, and what they want. Come on. Don't be shy. Tell us exactly what you want to do. Oh, wait. They are. It's just the big media outlets that aren't exactly transmitting wha...

Okay, it works for me now in preview, but will it publish? It's almost always worked for me in the past, but maybe it's a sometimes-misfire thing.

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YO, baby, as far as the girl's concerned, the ARAB STREET OUT ON THE STREET protesting is just that many more arabs that aren't in a spider hole building bombs.

SO SUCK IT UP, MOHAMMED!

Thousands of Muslims marched through Palestinian cities, burning the Danish flag and calling for ven...

I've been following the decidedly strange buildup of tensions across the Muslim world in response to some editorial cartoons published in a Danish newspaper (good collection of the offending ...