I haven't been commenting on the Danish Muhammad cartoons that have sparked such anger throughout the Muslim world (like they've ever needed an excuse). I haven't commented, not because it's not important, but because other bloggers have covered it so well, I would only be echoing them. But if you want full coverage, Michelle Malkin's has been extremely extensive. If you've somehow missed it, the outrage basically comes back to Islam forbidding the depiction of the prophet in any form to prevent idolatry, and they seem to think that this supercedes free speech, and apparently are seeking violent revenge.

So I personally hadn't been covering this, but I woke up a short time ago to find Drudge linking to this article, that explains how our own State Department is supporting the Muslim outrage. Obviously they wouldn't support the violence and chaos from Muslims in reaction to the publishing of cartoons that seems to only have begun, but the U.S. State Department.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States backed Muslims on Friday against European newspapers that printed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a move that could help America's battered image in the Islamic world.

Inserting itself into a dispute that has become a lightning rod for anti-European sentiment across the Muslim world, the United States sided with Muslims outraged that the publications put press freedom over respect for religion.

"These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims," State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in answer to a question.

"We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable."

I haven't heard the U.S. government come forward with statements about anti-Christian sentiment even in our own country.

more:

"Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images, as anti-Christian images or any other religious belief," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.

Really? Then I suppose you'll be bitchslapping Will & Grace, for having a show planned for the night before good friday, in which Britney Spears hosts a cooking show called Cruci-fixins on a fictional Christian TV network that buys out Jack's fictional gay network.

I won't hold my breath, considering it was the public outrage that got NBC to pull the Christianity mocking "Book of Daniel", and I don't remember hearing a peep from the State Department.

Anyway, Michelle Malkin has begun the Muhammad Cartoons Blogburst for anyone posting the toons, for those wanting to stand behind European free speech in solidarity with our European cousins. Well the toons are now making their debut appearance on RightWinged.com. (thanks Stuff.co.nz for making them one image)

Malkin's latest post shows "demonstrations" in Europe today, in which a bunch of scarfed idiots basically send out death wishes to anyone and everyone. Warning of coming "real" holocausts, a European 9/11, and all sorts of beheadings and slayings... not to mention telling "freedom" to go to hell. Ah, the "Religion of Peace", gotta love it. I suppose the libs will say those are Republican operatives holding these signs, disguised as Muslims to create anti-Muslim sentiment, right libs?

I'm curious, as is Michelle and I imagine many others, as to where the same outrage is over morphed Bin Laden/Christ art work. Of course this is only a small example of anti-Christianity going on around the world and in this country. I can't remember, were Christians calling for violence and beheadings when the Ten Commandments were removed in Alabama? How about when ACLU types tried to change the name of Las Cruces, NM. What about Kanye "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" West as Christ on the cover of Rolling Stone? I won't bother going on, because this is about the insanity that violent Muslims are trying to blame on cartoons.

By the way, Zombie has a great compilation of Muhammad images created over the years, where we didn't hear all the calls to arms that we're seeing today...

As I said to begin with, I don't want to be repeatative, so if you want to catch up on this whole thing, check out Malkin's previous posts:
The State Department Takes Sides in Cartoon Wars
Followers of the Religion of Peace
The International Day of Anger
The Cowardly American Media
Support Denmark...and Piglet!
In search of a brave American newspaper (updated)
First, they came for the cartoonists
Fight the bullies of Islam
Support Denmark: Why the forbidden cartoons matter
The cartoons Islamists don't want you to see
The forbidden cartoons
And many many more posts on this... Michelle has also done a lot of work digging up images of Muslim reaction to all this in many of her posts.