The EU’s foreign policy boss is setting out on a trip of the Middle East to discuss the cartoon saga. These comments, in an interview with Al Arabiya, suggest that free speech will take second place to a “respect” that “does not stop at countries’ borders and it includes all religions and specifically what concerns us here, our respect for the Islamic religion.”
Meanwhile, a preacher in Mecca is rejecting apologies and demanding a trial.
With “stiff penalties” to follow, of course.
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