What solidarity?

Pietru Caxaru is a new blog that aims to be a platform for liberal views on Malta related events and ideas. In this post, the author rethinks the advantages of EU membership in view of the EU's reluctant response to the Denmark cartoon contoversy. Meanwhile the violence against Danish interests worldwide has reached Malta with an attack last night on the 'Danish Village' holiday complex in Mellieha. From Pietru Caxaru:

..The failure of the EU to show any solidarity whatsoever with Denmark, during a difficult time has convinced me that I might have been wrong to expect the EU to enhance our external security in any significant way. It is quite apparent that an EU member state may be bullied by a number of third countries without receiving any support whatsoever from the EU or the other member states. This should be kept in mind by our policy-makers.

In the meantime, some well-meaning representative of the European Movement in Malta took the time to warn us in yesterday's Sunday Times that when people exercise the right to free speech they do so 'at their peril' if they happen to annoy someone else by what they say...

Michelle Malkin on why the forbidden cartoons matter; Roland Flamini writes that the Danes feel abandoned by their European allies; Donald Sensing writes that 'you mustn’t draw a cartoon of Mohammed, but you can put Christ on a coin in Malta'.