"...and Amnesty International, actually came out against the freedom to publish the cartoons..."
Not surprising - the Secretary General of that organisation is a muslim woman:
Irene Khan - Biography
Irene Zubaida Khan joined Amnesty International as the organization’s seventh Secretary General in August 2001.
Taking the helm in Amnesty International as the first woman, the first Asian and the first Muslim to guide the world’s largest human rights organization,
http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGORG100102002
Yuck.
My ex-wife was actually going to join Amnesty International (in France) until she went to her first meeting.
She was told (in no uncertain terms) that they were not there to "debate" or even "think" about different types of repression (her thing was the Muslim oppression of women) but simply to sign the petitions that the leadership put out.
She never went back.