Carsten Juste, editor of the paper that originally published the Muhammad cartoons, thinks his blow for free speech has failed. From the [1] New Duranty Times article on the controversy, "More European Papers Print Cartoons of Muhammad, Fueling Dispute With Muslims":

But Carsten Juste, the editor in chief of Jyllands-Posten, said the principle to be drawn from the debate was that opponents of press freedom had secured a victory. "My guess is that no one will draw the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark in the next generation, and therefore I must say with deep shame that they have won," he said in an interview with the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tiden.