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Introduction

"Au secours, Voltaire! Ils sont fous." ("Save us Voltaire, they are crazy.") With this cry for help, the French newspaper France Soir appealed to a national hero, the notoriously anti-religious philosopher of the Enlightenment, in the face of burgeoning Muslim protests against its reproduction of the Danish caricatures of Mohammed. As of this writing, European embassies in Damascus are in flames, and angry protestors have filled the streets from Jakarta to Jutland. The consequences are, as the Danish Prime Minister has put it, "unforeseeable," at least as far as the political dimension goes. Suddenly it is Western Europe and not...