[seastay]

"Indeed, with Denmark set to assume the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council"

Is this true? If so, there is something far more sinister with the timing and the fanning of the flames

[twigs]

there is something far more sinister with the timing and the fanning of the flames

I think you're right. A Danish Imam took these cartoons to the Middle East expressly to stir up anger and violence in the Muslim street. He even added offensive images that had not been published. But he waited months to do it. More is at work here, I fear. A fifth column in the heart of Europe to say the very least.

[okie01]

Is this true? If so, there is something far more sinister with the timing and the fanning of the flames

It is true. And that it was Syria and Iran who did the most to fan the flames is instructive. They were surely aware of the rotation.

I expect the affair will have steeled the Dane's resolve.