COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - European media have leapt to defend a Danish paper's right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, but some commentators are also asking if press freedom has become an excuse for intolerance.
Described by one of the cartoonists behind the uproar as a "collection of reactionary provocateurs", according to a Swedish report, the now apologetic paper Jyllands-Posten has elicited sympathy but also suspicion from colleagues around the world.
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