"We told you so"

I don't think the Europeans had this in mind when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten came out with the Muhammed-cartoons.

Jyllands-Posten, on the other hand, couldn't be more on the mark:

"Here we go again. It's like deja vu...This is exactly the kind of self-censorship I and my newspaper have been warning against," said Flemming Rose, culture editor of Denmark's Jyllands-Posten paper, which met a storm of Muslim protest after publishing satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad last year.

He said bowing to fears of a violent Muslim reaction would only worsen the problem: "You play into the hands of the radicals. You are telling them: your tactics are working. This is a victory for the radicals. It's weakening the moderate Muslims who are our allies in this battle of ideas."

With the exceptions of a couple of countries over in Europe, I've come to expect nothing but cowardice from over yonder.

Hat tip Peaktalk