Michelle Malkin has a roundup of links to articles concerning the cartoon controversy. She believes the Islamists are winning the fight.

The Danes, according to the New York Times, are pointing out the political opportunism that is driving the cartoon controversy. Clearly, the violence in Damascus and Beirut was driven by the Syrians, and the violence in Teheran would not have happened without the government deliberately turning the other way, if not outright encouraging it.

An American Muslim spells out in the National Review what this is all about. Victor Davis Hanson has more thoughts about it, as well.

The Boston Globe reports that the controversy has exposed a rift in Europe.

In an unrelated matter, check out this op-ed piece in the NYT written by CIA Director Porter Goss. He states what I thought was obvious, that people who leak classified information to the press are damaging American national security (and I don't just mean Scooter Libby's alleged outing of Valerie Plame).