Precisely - you have an unlimited right to publish offensive speech, but no right to not be offended by published speech.
The State Department should be ashamed.
Whats so horrible about this story is how the State Dept could have contained this. THis all came about because the House of Faud was desperate to get the fact that again hundreds of pilgrams died during this year pilgrimage as well as about sixty in a hotel collapse and all of that could have been avoided if not for Saudi mismanagement. So they have their papers find cartoons in a Dutch paper four months before that no Moslem reads and inflames the issue to cover their butt. As usual the House of Saud couldnt contain the jeannie once it was out of the bottle. If someone had been paying attention at Foggy Bottom they could have nipped this in the bud with some phone calls to the Saudi Govt. THere is a cool Saudi Moslem guy that a blog called the Religious Policeman that has a hillarious take on this.