The latest from the Danish government: The Western value of free speech trumps religious fanaticism:

PARIS, France (Reuters) — Denmark said on Friday it could not apologize for cartoons in a Danish newspaper depicting the Prophet Mohammad as outrage spread across the Muslim world from the Middle East to countries in Asia.

More European newspapers published the cartoons on Friday, arguing freedom of speech was sacred, but angry Muslims staged violent protests against jokes they consider blasphemous.

Depicting the picture of the prophet is prohibited under Sharia law.

“Neither the Danish government nor the Danish nation as such can be held responsible for drawings published in a Danish newspaper,” Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after meeting with Muslim envoys in Copenhagen.

“A Danish government can never apologize on behalf of a free and independent newspaper,” he said. “This is basically a dispute between some Muslims and a newspaper.”

Of course, this will enrage the Islamists even more.

I do believe a crisis is approaching.

However, CNN has decided that their Muslim market is more important than free speech.

Muslims consider it sacrilegious to produce a likeness of the Prophet Mohammad. CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam. (Watch the furor caused by cartoons — 2:48)

Even in the video clip, CNN refuses to show the cartoons. Spinelessness, driven by market share. Gotta love the Corporate News Network.

The IDF stopped palestinians from smugling two bomb belts and twelve pipe bombs into Israel. Both attempted smugglers were from the Nablus area.

Kassam rockets are raining down on Israel; four people, including a baby, were hurt by one that landed in Ashkelon. Funny, for a “home-made” rocket, it sure did a lot of damage. Click through and look at the picture. Oh, and they’ve been raining down consistently. The non-Israeli media ignore the rocket attacks unless they kill someone.

Hamas members are involved in the recent kassam attacks. But they’re honoring the “calm.” Really. Honest.

Oh, and Hizbullah shelled IDF positions without provocation, but you wouldn’t know it from this AP piece, which goes the old “in retaliation for X” route. In actuality, Hezbullah failed to achieve a terror attack yesterday–the terrorist was killed by the IDF–so the spokesliars are saying it was an unarmed civilian (and 15 years old) that was killed.

There was also a “work accident” on the pier near Rafah, killing only the two terrorists instead of also killing Israeli naval forces. Rafah, in case you have forgotten, is one of the towns that is generally chock-full of ISM “peace” activists and others like them. Protecting the poor innocents. Uh-huh.

The Danish cartoonists’ depiction of Mohammed is turning out to be a wonderful thing. It is opening Europe’s eyes to the cancer within: Radical Islamism. The “religion of peace” (and “tolerance”) has shown itself to be, well, not so peaceful and tolerant.

Exhibit One: The Palestinian campaign against Europe in the “Cartoon Affair” is escalating.

On Thursday, scores of armed Palestinians closed down EU headquarters in Gaza.

Anti-European feeling among the Palestinian public rose as rumors spread throughout the territories warning of an intention to burn the Koran at a demonstration in Denmark this Saturday.

Palestinian terror organizations warned that if the Koran was burned, they would attack Europeans in the territories, destroy their consulates and offices, and murder their diplomatic staff.

Exhibit Two: A German national, apparently a human rights activist, was kidnapped Thursday evening by unidentified gunmen in Nablus in protest of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in newspapers all over the world. He was released shortly afterwards.

Exhibit Three: JAKARTA (Reuters) - About 300 militant Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish embassy on Friday in protest over cartoons that Muslims say insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.

Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest), the white-clad protesters from the hardline Islamic Defender’s Front (FPI) smashed lamps with bamboo sticks and threw chairs around in anger at cartoons originally published by a Danish daily.

Exhibit Four: Fundamentalist Muslims protested outside the Danish Embassy in Malaysia, chanting “Long live Islam, destroy our enemies” and accusing the Jyllands-Posten of seeking to incite hatred.

“It’s an uncivilized act. It’s heinous,” said Hanifah Maidin, youth wing spokesman of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, demanding the Danish government apologize to the Muslim world.

About 800 people protested in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, chanting “Death to Denmark” and “Death to France.” Another rally in the southern city of Karachi drew 1,200 people.

Pakistan’s parliament unanimously voted to condemn the drawings as a “vicious, outrageous and provocative campaign” that has “hurt the faith and feelings of Muslims all over the world.”

And that’s only four examples. But it gives the lie to the claims that Islam is a religion of tolerance. I don’t recall worldwide rioting by Christians and Jews over Monty Python’s Life of Brian, though that was considered extremely offensive and insulting to both religions. (There were protests, nothing more.)

The masks are coming off, and it may be enough to awaken Europe to the disastrous policies they’ve been following under the guise of mulitculturalism.

The clash of civilizations continues.

Off to the doctor’s this morning. Temperature is still below normal; I’m still exhausted, and it’s time to get drugs.

I can’t take a hit like this. Missing three days work and no sick pay. This sucks.