You oversimplified it in your first comment, and so did I in my reply. The cartoons are tangential to the present discussion and I am not really interested in repeating all I said in the ET debates on the topic. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. — Euripides
I brought up the cartoons, because the suspects in the failed train bombing plots in Germany mentioned them as their motivation.
That's why I think it is worth looking at the long-term consequences of the cartoon uproar.