"Cartoon Protests Turn Deadly"

Has anyone been following the world-wide protests regarding the cartoons depicting Mohammed? I have trouble gettting over the fact that the sentence "Cartoon Protests Turn Deadly" is being printed on any newspaper/website besides The Onion. Not that I ever thought there was, but is there any hope for the world when hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, are enraged enough to kill over a stupid cartoon in a Danish newspaper?

On a related note, it was nice to see that the French were the first to surrender, again ( a french paper issued a grovelling retraction and fired it's editor after running the questionable cartoon). It would really suck to be French.

One more note, Europe seems to frequently look down their collective noses at "cowboy Americans" and our country's, allegedly, less refined culture. In this case, the US will take a lot of the heat for these stupid cartoons while none of the cartoons originated here. I don't know why the euro's get such leeway from the pundits of the world. Anyway, I'll save the "take your euro-trash to the curb" post for another time, but feel free to leave a comment if you have some thoughts.