First of all, you may not like the subject, but if it's free speech, it's free speech.
Second of all, what was an attack on religion?
Printing a picture of Mohammed? Muslim rules are not global law no matter how much the fundamentalists want it.
Was it criticizing the huge use of violence in the name of Islam?
Was it the fact that it was done by non-Muslims? Actually it was printed in Jordan as well. Are Muslims attacking Islam? I'm confused.
Really the only attacks are the attacks on free speech, the attacks on Europeans embassies (even of countries that didn't print the images), the threats on Christians, the murder of European artists, the Fatwas issued by Jihadists to kill writers like Salman Rushdie and artists, and the threats against the lives of feminist Muslims in Europe.
Muslims have repeatedly put out television shows, books, newspaper articles that are filled with hate speech, racism, anti-semitism, and bigotry. In Egypt they had a television show dedicated to "The Protocols of Zion" one of the most anti-semitic books ever written, and Egypt was a supposedly moderate Muslim country that receives billions in US aid. Their Foreign Minister had the nerve to the the UN that the Dutch need to pressure their newspapers to not put out things like that.
Dutch Muslims have now started to pass out cartoons showing Anne Frank in bed with Adolf Hitler and cartoons denying the existance of the Holocaust. The Arab European League now carries them on its website. That is HATE speech. That is BIGOTRY. Once again Muslims display their sheer anti-semitism. Is this rare? Is this an outlier?? Visit
www.memri.org for translated media from the Muslim world and tell me how much hate speech you see on a daily basis.
Many Muslims protested peacefully against the pictures. It is their absolute right to do so. It would have been great if they protested peacefully against the murder of artists and if they protested peacefully against the animals that burn down embassies and bite the hand that feeds them as well. It would have been wonderful if they said "No more racism, anti-semitism, and bigotry and Arab and Muslim media" and it would have been even better if they said "You know what? Jews had nothing to do with this so let's not be anti-semites yet again".
-Rudey