However, the larger issue for all, including moderate and even-keeled followers of Muhammad, is getting those who read only the Koran to somehow deal with the concept of pluralism and press freedoms. There must be a concerted effort throughout the Middle East to focus on changing the education system to allow for more than the Islamic schools to teach a skewered view of the world. While I do try to understand various cultures, on this matter, I find myself unable to poke my head so deep in the sand so as to view it in the same way a rioter burning an embassy might see it. There is no justification for the acts that are taking place in the Middle East this weekend. And the moderate voices in Islam need to step up and demand structural changes so as to stem the creation of a new generation of misguided Islamic youths.

I already have seen those who are condemning the cartoonist and the publishers of the papers from the far left. RUBBISH! There are of course journalistic boundaries that news organizations follow every day to be fair and objective. But to state that a political cartoon can't be a 'thumb in the eye' to any group is a line we must never cross in any legitimate news organization.