...legitimate anti-racists are capable of condemning the cartoons without a kneejerk embrace of the backlash against them. From New Kerala, Feb. 9:

"This was a conscious and planned provocation by a right-wing Danish newspaper," said German Gunter Grass, who took the Nobel Prize in 1999.

Grass described the Danish publishers of the caricatures as "xenophobic right-wing radicals" and the subsequent violent Muslim protests as "a fundamentalist response to a fundamentalist act."