A victory for the demagogues of Islam

oooh, I seem to have come over all Daily Mail editor-ish there. I do apologise.
A potted history from what I have read so far -

• The Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons in late September of last year. Yes, that's (counts fingers) over four months ago. The cartoons can be viewed here, as linked to via the Guardian.
  
• As predictably as night follows day, protests follow pretty much immediately, albeit mainly local and small scale.
• Some honourable chappies in the form of "ultra-conservative imans" tour the Middle East with copies of the cartoons and just to spice things up a bit, a few others of unknown provenance that really do go beyond the pale. No doubt all in the spirit of furthering religious tolerance and breaking down barriers between the faiths. Such selfless behaviour should not go unrecognised. I believe the Dundonian vernacular of "hing-oots" best fits the spirit of such people.
  
• A hissy fit is taken by a number of Islamic countries as they recall their ambassadors from Denmark. Ferrero Rocher report a slump in sales.
• Tuesday of last week sees a number of European papers decide that they too will publish the cartoons.
• Cue more outrage (as an aside, how many of the protesters have seen these images first hand?) and protests.
  
• Oddly enough, some breaking down of barriers does take place but not in a good way.
• Jack Straw exhibits his well practiced "kipper" capabilities and praises the UK press for their (non) handling of the cartoons.
• Muslims of all sorts gather at the Danish Embassy in London and some particularly gifted individuals make the most of their right to free speech by denouncing said right to free speech. Someone who turns up at a protest with a banner proclaiming "Freedom of expression, go to hell" is either the Viz character "Terry F*ckwit" made real or some foolhardy aspirant taking part in some sort of extreme street-theatre/comedy type thing. Somehow, I suspect the former to be the case.
• It seems Terry has a close relation when another protester, asked if the publication of such cartoons would justify more attacks along the lines of the July 7th atrocities starts his reply with the words "I'm not here to condemn or condone." Really? Just out to take the air were you? Can't beat a nice sunny winter's day, do a bit of chanting, burn a flag or two, maybe an effigy if you can spare the time before exclusively revealing to the nation via the Guardian just how much of a retarded oxygen thief you are. Well, consider it a success.
  

The summary kind of went off the rails a little and there has been enough ranting by people to fuel an intergalactic fleet of spacecraft (presuming that such fleet were to exist of course, far less be capable of using vocal output as a viable means of propulsion). So if anyone is still reading, I'm off to take a series of deep breaths and a goodly sized dram of Glen Serotonin in the form of Springbank's 12 year old malt whisky.