EU: Of Cartoons and What it Means to Be 'European'

Muslim responses to cartoons in a Danish newspaper caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed have risen to a fever pitch, encouraging a counterreaction of amused indignation from the European press. The rising clamor not only reveals a widening breach between Muslim immigrants and non-Muslim Europeans, it also presages a reckoning in which demographic pressures threaten underlying European national identities.