Carsten Juste, editor of the paper that originally published the Muhammad cartoons, thinks his blow for free speech has failed. From the 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.