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Not surprising.

This sort of thing is getting very tiring all over Europe.

The Dutch snapped out of their funk when Van Gogh was murdered.

France, of course, has it's teeth on edge because of the riots.

Britain had the terrible terror attacks on the London buses.

Now the Danes are facing tensions and a call for a boycott because some Muslim folks cannot take the sort of political lampooning that goes on in free societies.

Country by country, patience for this sort of thing is wearing out. The Dutch are not in a conciliatory mood. The British aren't. And the French certainly are not. This is our Western society. It is free. It took two thousand years to crawl out from under the shadow of clericalism, and we are not going back. Certainly nobody is going to be intimidated by a bunch of Arab hotheads who, in the end, are simply not all that numerous.

France Soir published the pictures to make a point, to be explicitly provocative, and to remind everyone in the country, Muslim and francais de souche, who runs the show in France. Rioting will not follow. Anybody who tries to riot over THIS will get his head broken, because this time it would be perfectly clear that the rioting was really Muslim, and really specifically aimed at free speech.

France is a free country, and it's going to stay a free country, no matter how many people have to be beaten into submission and mocked to keep it free.