Cartoon rage boils over in Indonesia. From Reuters, with thanks to JE:
JAKARTA (Reuters) – About 300 militant Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish embassy on Friday in protest over cartoons that Muslims say insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.
Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest), the white-clad protesters from the hardline Islamic Defender’s Front (FPI) smashed lamps with bamboo sticks and threw chairs around in anger at cartoons originally published by a Danish daily.
They also threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at the Danish embassy symbol inside the lobby. The embassy is on the 25th floor of the building and protesters were unable to get past security in the lobby, a Reuters photographer said….
Newspapers in France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Hungary have reprinted the caricatures this week, saying press freedom was more important than the protests and boycotts they have provoked.
Many Arab commentators said the European defense rings hollow because, they said, European media protected Judaism and Israel from criticism.
Yes, Reuters, they say that. But that doesn’t make it true.