Pakistan joined Iran today and issued a statement protesting the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by a Swedish newspaper on 18 August. According to the statement, Swedish Chargé d'Affaires Lennart Holst has said Sweden "fully shared the views of the Muslim community". From the Pakistani statement:

"Regrettably, the tendency among some Europeans to mix the freedom of expression with an outright and deliberate insult to 1.3 billion Muslims in the world is on the rise."

Nonsense. The only true insult is opportunist rulers' deliberate distortion of civil liberties.