Michel Boucher wrote:

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> I am very much aware of that, and at least one Middle Eastern
> government has apologized. Many governments were pursuing a diplomatic
> solution since the publication which obviously Denmark ignored.
> Perhaps this could have been resolved amicably much earlier and none of
> this would have come to pass.

There is more than a little irony in all this. I can understand that
Moslems would be offended by an image of the prophet with a bomb, since it
would characterize them as being violent. But to me, to react to the
offensiveness of the portrayal by starting riots that have lead to murder
and arson??? I have to say that it doesn't do much for their argument that
it is unfair to portray them as being violent.