Boycott Egypt

Or burn a token embassy or something.
Meanwhile, closer to home, the usual twit contingent is organizing;

Students angered by a Halifax university professor’s decision to post cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on his office door plan to march on Saint Mary’s University.
Organizers have condemned the actions of Dr. Peter March saying they show a lack of respect for the Islamic faith and are designed to be provocative and create a hatred of Muslims.
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Organizers say the march will also honour the nine people worldwide who died protesting cartoons they saw as mocking their faith

Professor March should pull his cartoons down and replace them with photographs of the three Christian schoolgirls beheaded in Indonesia last fall. But something tells me that would also be protested as “hatred” towards Islam.
Bonus! The Muslim Public Affairs Council (UK) steals neo-Nazi material for their website.


Update

According to Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish security services (S�po), in collusion with Foreign Minister Leila Freivalds, have forced the website SD-Kuriren offline for publishing the Jyllands-Posten cartoons (SD-Kuriren is the house organ of the hard-right Swedish Democrats).
�We think that this was the best decision after we were contacted by the Foreign Ministry and S�po,� Anna Larsson, vice president of hosting compant Levonline, told DN. Freivalds told DN that �it is terrible that a small group of extremists are exposing Swedes to danger [by reprinting the cartoons].�
Note: Freedom House�s 2005 survey ranks Sweden 9th in press freedom.
Note to S�po: This site is hosted in Sweden, on the servers of Loopia AB. You can find their contact information here. The Spectator calls on every Swedish blog�left, right and center�to reprint the Mohammad cartoons in solidarity with SD-Kuriren, however odious we find their political views. Freedom of the press doesn�t make exceptions for stupidity and provincialism.

I received a call today from a Toronto reporter on the topic of publishing the cartoons, beginning with why I had chosen to do so. I had a few things to say about editors who have forgotten that their own press freedoms were paid for in blood by editors and reporters of decades past who gave limb and life to establish the right to offend.
Well, I actually had a lot to say. Don’t know how much will appear in print, but I’ll direct you there if it does.
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