. . . in the battle being waged against freedom of speech. The AP reports:

A Danish newspaper on Friday apologized for offending Muslims by reprinting a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban, rekindling heated debate about the limits of freedom of speech.
Danish daily Politiken said its apology was part of a settlement with a Saudi lawyer representing eight Muslim groups in the Middle East and Australia.

Diana West calls this “a giant leap to dhimmitude.”

Roger Kimball has some comments here.

As it happens, my NRO column this week is on the battle of ideas taking place within the Islamist war being waged against the West. I argue that we in the West are

accepting government prohibitions on the thoughts we may express, allowing extremists to shut us up, and self-censoring out of fear. . . .
[The Organization of the Islamic Conference], in its 1990 “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam,” declares that “Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely” — but then adds: “in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Sharia,” which is to say Islamic law as interpreted by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other despotic members of this international religious/political alliance.
Theirs is not a different view of freedom of speech: It is a death sentence for freedom of speech. And it is what they intend not only for the lands they now rule but globally. What does it tell us that they are finding so many people in the West willing — indeed, eager — to assist them?