Islamist thugs attempted to storm the U.S. embassy in Indonesia, allegedly over their unhappiness with the Danish cartoons lampooning the prophet. Of course, it is really all about the efforts by Islamists to de-stabilize their own governments, causing them to fall and be replaced by the radicals, who can then go about the business of wiping out the Jews, Christians, Hindus and everybody else who doesn't agree with them or isn't willing to submit to their theology.

Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe understands that a part of that effort is to intimidate Western media outlets into obeying their theological taboos.

Flemming Rose, the editor at the Danish newspaper who solicited and published the cartoons, explains why he did so and why the effort should be defended.

One of the Danish cartoonists who has gone into hiding was interviewed by The Guardian in a story about the Nigerian riots that have broken out over the issue.

One of Iran's most hard-line Mullahs, who is also close to that country's President, has issued a religious fatwa saying the use of nuclear weapons is OK, and endorsing the drive to obtain such weapons. An Iranian group also held a recruiting seminar at a university to sign up potential suicide bombers to attack American and British interests across the border in Iraq if the West uses military action to prevent their acquisition of nuclear weapons. It doesn't seem to get any better, does it?