Good grief. What do you folks want the State Department to say as the official diplomatic arm of the US government? Get a grip on the outrage for the State Department and let's put it where it belongs.
http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/currentaffairs/ger060202?view=Standard
Principles
As to whether the action by Die Welt could cause problems for Germany, just as the original publication of the cartoons has done for Denmark, Jacques Schuster comments:
"Yes, it could. But again we are journalists, and I want to cover the reality, and I can't think about these possible problems."
"I think we have our rules, and we have our principles, and one of our main principles is freedom of opinion and the press. In this case, I think that we stand for freedom of the press."