Is there any place you can actually see the cartoons themselves? Plus are there any muslims here who could comment on exactly what in the cartoons that is so provoking? Seems like the discussion has been a little one sided so far, and by principle I'd like to judge the argumentation on both sides. That said, I doubt anything that could possibly be drawn in cartoons would change my opinion that there's no validity in demands to infringe freedom of press which is a basic part of western democracy, unless the pictures actually break laws and try to cause hatred towards, and generalizations about, muslims in general and so on (which some of my sources seem to indicate was hidden in the pictures, but I can't verify that until I can see the pictures).