Sweden regrets free speech

Sweden regrets free speech:

Sweden's embassy in Pakistan has expressed regret over the publication of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a Swedish newspaper.

The Swedish government had nothing to do with the cartoon. It points this out and states it cannot apologise for the cartoon, but it still "expressed regret that the publication of the cartoons had hurt the feelings of Muslims". Damn those people and their pesky opinions, if only they didn't have them! I wish governments would not feel that as soon as religion is mentioned they have to start scrambling to cover themselves.