chickenfeet

Jyllands Posten is a squalid right wing rag. The editor knew exactly what he was doing when he originally printed the cartoons. I'm not going to paint the editor as a martyr anymore than I would the editor of the Sun or the Toronto Sun when they get up to similarly border line racist antics.
The motives of the Arab governments that dragged this story back into the limelight four months later are dubious at best. See The Religious Policeman for more.
Boycotting things Danish because a newspaper printed something one doesn't like is asinine. It's like boycotting all American products every time Pat Robertson opens his mouth.
Boycotting Norwegian products is even more stupid.
Reprinting the cartoons was probably ill judged. I see the point in not wanting to be seen as giving into pressure but I don't really see that any purpose has been accomplished by the reprints.
The demonstration in London was by 500 people, which is pretty pathetic for a demonstration in London. The placards and chanting were highly offensive and undoubtedly illegal. As Asghar Bukhari has said the demo should have been stopped by the police. In my view those inciting violence should be prosecuted.
The demonstrations in Gaza, Syria etc are the usual Rent-a-Mob efforts to distract attention from the utter incompetence and brutality of the local governments,
The press would have been better advised not to concentrate on the antics of a handful of nutters.
Kudos to those in the Muslim community and the Arab world who have condemned the violence and pointed out its utter lack of proportion.
Thanks to the Muslim community in Toronto and Canada as a whole for not jumping on the bandwagon. Also to the tens of millions of Muslims worldwide who just shrugged and got on with life.