Today both the Danish and Norwegian embasssies in Damascus, Syria were set on fire amid a flurry of protests on numerous locations in the world.

Here are some interesting links for today:

Michelle Malkin has produced her own short video montage called "First They Came", in which a few well-known Dutch personalities appear;

Christopher Caldwell in the FT looks at the longer term implications for Denmark, and by extension for Europe as a whole:

Eighty per cent of Danes oppose an apology over the Mohammed cartoons. A delegation of Danish Muslims who toured the Muslim world last December to drum up outrage over the caricatures is now being accused of disloyalty. That only hints at the tensions. Forty-five per cent of second-generation immigrant youth are unemployed and Denmark now has some of the strictest immigration laws in Europe. The situation is a tinderboxand the country no longer has any safe or simple choices. It owes its Muslim citizens respect and a chance at a better life. But it also has genuinely dangerous enemies who will view any efforts in that direction as a sign of pusillanimity and fear.

Almost everyone has already linked to the photos of the demonstrations in London yesterday so I won't, but the prevailing sentiments there are probably best captured by this quote:

"It is very clear: Anyone who insults the Prophet must be beheaded. Remember van Gogh?" he said, referring to the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was murdered in 2004 for his controversial film about Islam.

"Whoever did it, bless him. Islam is peace but you see there will only be peace when Islam is implemented across the world. In the Prophet's time anyone who insulted the Prophet was beheaded. The same should happen now."

Arjan Dasselaar jumps on the "Buy Danish" bandwagon, anf if you're interested in that sort of thing, here is a shopping list.

And the Guardian goes back to the origins of the controversy, reminding us that is was writer Kare Bluitgen who was looking for an illustrator of his children's book for which he had a hard time finding illustrators:

Mr Bluitgen's trouble prompted several Danish newspapers, including the best-selling Jyllands-Posten (Jutland Post), to begin a debate. How far should Denmark go down the road of self-censorship? And was freedom of speech more important than Muslim sensitivities?

Here's the latest from the Dutch newswires:

Iran is investigating the possiblity of initiating a trade boycott against all European nations where the cartoons have been published.

An interesting development on the day that Iran was formally referred to the Security Council.

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