All this over a cartoon?

(AP Photo, by Bassem Tellawi) Damascus, Syria--Thousands of Muslims burned the Danish and Norwegian embassies to the ground in Damascus, Syria on Saturday as the violent response to Dutch newspaper caricatures of the prophet Mohammed escalated to is worst level yet.
In the Gaza strip, rioters flooded the streets, burning German and Danish flags and storming through European buildings. The windows of the German cultural center were smashed, and stones were thrown at the European Commission building. The leader of Hamas, the new governing party of the Palestinian Authority, called the cartoons "an unforgivable insult"--one that merited punishment by death.
In Iraq, hundreds of citizens held a rally demanding an apology from the EU, and the government of Pakistan summoned envoys from nine European countries to discuss the matter. In Denmark, the cartoonists responsible for the initial series of cartoons poking fun at Islam, viewable here, have gone into hiding, as they currently fear for their lives.
In what the Associated Press called "aggravating the affront," the Prime Minister of Denmark, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has repeatedly stated that he cannot apologize for that nation's free press. One can only wonder if the AP would be reporting that the Prime Minister was "aggravating" the issue if he were refusing to apologize to America for an insult carried out by his nation's free press, or if it would be congratulating him for his backbone.