And that's different from the US how?
The thing is: Newspapers in Germany, even France reprinted the Danish cartoons. Comedy Central censored South Park when they wanted to show a - totally harmless - image of Mohammed.
The United States lacks the enormous (10% or more) militant Muslim population that inhabits many European cities and (outside the press, the Democratic Party, and the blue states) the endemic, pervasive mental illness of liberalism that infests ethnic European society. American preachers can and do defend the Pope and regularly deliver an even stronger condemnation of Islamofascism and "that demon-possessed paedophile," the Prophet Muhammad--peace be upon him as demons torture him in the frozen pit of hell. Most Americans (excluding Democrats, the press, and other enemies of the United States within the country) attend church and see nothing wrong with the Papal remarks on Islam. With a few notable exceptions, mostly on talk radio, our press overwhelmingly stands on the European side of the great chasm between victory and appeasement.