When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.

This is an inviolable question of principle here in the land of Voltaire and Zola. We are willing to appear before the courts if some think the drawings go too far, but we are certainly not willing to give way to the desires of religious extremists.