Swedish foreign minister Laila Freivalds resigned earlier this week. The Guardian has more: “The row about cartoons of the prophet Muhammad yesterday claimed the career of Sweden’s foreign minister, who resigned after allegations that she shut down a far-right website for soliciting new caricatures. Laila Freivalds…said she could no longer continue in the face of intense media criticism. Opponents said Ms Freivalds, 63, broke Sweden’s strict freedom of speech laws when her department allegedly took steps to close down a website that was trying to publish fresh cartoons of Muhammad…Ms Freivalds insisted she did not order the official to contact the web company. But opposition politicians accused her of lying after a foreign ministry report said she was involved in the decision.”

Elsewhere, however, acts of appeasement continue: “A senior Anglican priest resigned yesterday as editor of a Welsh language church magazine after publishing a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad.

The Venerable Meurig Llwyd Williams, archdeacon of Bangor, included the drawing, reprinted from the French newspaper Le Soir, in Y Llan, which has a circulation of 400. It showed Muhammad sitting on a heavenly cloud with God and Buddha and being told: “Don’t complain – we’ve all been caricatured here.”… All copies of Y Llan (“Church”) will now be collected and destroyed. Mr Williams’s use of the drawing was denounced as “a gross error of judgment” by the Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan.”

Words fail me.