***scroll for updates…Danish ping-pong team cancels trip…Iranian demonstrators stone Norwegian embassy…2nd try to storm Danish mission in 2 days…***

President Bush phoned the Danish Prime Minister today to express support:

U.S. President George W. Bush called Denmark’s prime minister on Tuesday to voice support for the Nordic country, whose embassies are the target of violent protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

“I am happy to inform you that just a few minutes ago, President Bush called me to express support and solidarity with Denmark in the light of the violence against Danish and other diplomatic missions,” said Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Meanwhile, Jordanian Muslims set Danish, American, and Israeli flags on fire in protest of the Muhammed Cartoons today in front of the Church of Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem:

Also desecrated in the name of Cartoon Jihad, the flags of…

France:

Norway (left):

Switzerland:

Like Paul Belien says: We are all Danes now.

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Pamela at Atlas Shrugs reports on a new chant making the rounds:

Every muslim must kill a Dane, a Frenchman or another Westerner.

Pamela’s calling on folks to Boycott the Boycott. I bought Vanillekranse and Danish flag stickers here.

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An NR symposium: The clash to end all clashes?

At Cato Unbound, Theodore Dalrymple asks: Is “Old Europe” doomed?”

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