In this commentary published in Saturday's Guardian, Philip Hensher and Gary Younge try to make sense of the rights collision produced by the cartoons. Hensher argues the Yes side, while Younge argues for No.

In a Saturday editorial, The Globe and Mail had a distinctly unsympathetic take to some of the Islamic world's reaction to the Danish cartoons:

The Sunday Star's Haroon Siddiqui tries to put the cartoon situation into both a contemporary and historical context.

Some excerpts of a column by Simon Jenkins, writing in the Sunday Times of London:

This is part of an Independent on Sunday story that could be one of the better ones yet on how this whole controversy erupted.

This NYT piece argues that the Danish cartoon imbroglio is but one front in a war between Europe's anti-immigration right and the fundamentalist Muslims in Europe's immigrant community.

Seen at the bottom of an AP story on CNN about the controversial cartoons about Muhammad:

CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for Islam.

Saturday saw the embassies of Denmark and Norway get ransacked and burned in Damascus, Syria. The French embassy came close to the same fate.

In Jordan, two newspaper editors were arrested.