I'm sure somebody said something similar when Time Magazine was forced to give an apology in 2001 when they had published Muhammad-drawings:). They will come back, don't you worry...
Naaah, first it took 4 years. Second that was an inadvertant display. Lesson learned and not repeated.
In advance of the State of the Union address, the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued an ultimatum warning President Bush to "avoid the use of hot-button terms such as 'Islamo-fascism,' 'militant jihadism,' 'Islamic radicalism' or 'totalitarian Islamic empire'" in his speech -- in other words, advising Bush not to identify enemies for the sake of tolerance and diversity.
A blurb from the CNN website:
'CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam.'
Diversity and multiculturism. Self-censorship. Sissies one and all. And I'd thank the US State Department NOT to criticize the cartoons on MY behalf.
I think I'll go buy something Danish this weekend even at horrendous cost here in China. A reverse boycott if you will.
Finally, for those who always make amends and talk of the "Religion of Peace" where are the religious leaders contradicting this sort of 'peaceful' chatter?
Early Friday, Palestinian militants threw a bomb at a French cultural center in Gaza City, and many Palestinians began boycotting European goods, especially those from Denmark.
"Whoever defames our prophet should be executed," said Ismail Hassan, 37, a tailor who marched through the pouring rain along with hundreds of others in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up," protesters in Ramallah chanted.
In mosques throughout Palestinian cities, clerics condemned the cartoons. An imam at the Omari Mosque in Gaza City told 9,000 worshippers that those behind the drawings should have their heads cut off.
"If they want a war of religions, we are ready," Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
About 10,000 demonstrators, including gunmen from the Islamic militant group Hamas firing in the air, marched through Gaza City to the Palestinian legislature, where they climbed on the roof, waving green Hamas banners.
"We are ready to redeem you with our souls and our blood our beloved prophet," they chanted. "Down, Down Denmark."