I wish that were true, but it's not. Europe has cravenly turned its back on the Danes, too. Very few newspapers have run the cartoons. I saw a photo from France's biggest supermarket chain showing a sign on an empty shelf saying they wouldn't stock Danish dairy products out of respect. Burlesconi has just fired one of his ministers for making up t-shirts from the cartoons. Not a single mainstream paper in Britain has run them. It goes on and on.
It's totally insane.
I know this may be blasphemy but is it actually good business sense to publish them ? Many papers may have a strongly liberal agenda whilst posing as mainstream but at some point they do have to sell advertising don't they ? A conservative paper should publish them because they quite clearly would appeal to American values, which their readers would support. But if my (eg The new York Times) target audience is a bunch of unionists , Latte fat cats, students and the prison population would I really irritate them just to promote "free speech" and "solidarity". I mean why does a paper have to apologize for appealing to its audience. And yes papers are there firstly to make money for they're shareholders.