German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel decided to make and publish its own cartoon satirizing the Mohammed Cartoon Controversy, and is now under attack from abroad:

With the embers from the Danish cartoon dispute still burning, one Berlin newspaper appears to be on a suicide mission. On Friday, the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel ran a cartoon by Klaus Stuttmann portraying the Iranian national team at the World Cup wearing suicide bomber belts and the German national team dressed in Bundeswehr army uniforms. You know, free speech and all that. The cartoon reads: "Why the Bundeswehr absolutely has to be deployed at the World Cup."

The Iranian embassy in Berlin has demanded an apology for the cartoon and is considering taking legal action over the matter. But in a navel-gazing interview with the same newspaper that commissioned the sketch, the cartoonist says his aim with the drawing was simply to criticize the debate in Germany about whether the army should be deployed domestically to provide additional security during the World Cup soccer tournament in Germany.

Why a political comment about Iranian threats should even cause much comment is the question. The Iranian’s acting dangerously and making threats about being seen as… dangerous and threatening should not make any difference to us, it is absurd.  Their President comments at least once a week publicly about wiping out Israel or the US, or both.  They deserve much stronger criticism than this cartoon.  Here is the cartoon itself: