What do you mean 'most muslims would not accept the cartoons'? If you don't accept them you're just as much the problem as the 'extreme minority' that advocates violent action.
The question here wether religious rules apply to the non-religous too. Not accepting the cartoons is essentially different from not drawing or spreading the cartoons because that's not acceptable for muslims because of their own reliigous rules. Just like some people don't eat shellfish, don't work on sundays and don't swear. Not accepting that infidels don't abide you're religious rules is an attack on the same freedom of religion that allows muslims to practice their religion in Europe in the first place.
So either you believe in freedom of religion so everybody with different beliefs can live together, or you believe that islam rules supreme and other people have to abide to islamic rules too. For the latter is no place in Europe, but there are many. Also when it comes to alcohol, eating porc, christian symbols, not wearing a veil, holocaust education a lot of muslims don't respect the freedom
No, it's not. It's not about multiculturalism and plurality, it's about the monocultural and single minded oppressive islam running havoc through France. Just like islam is wrecking societies everywhere because it's intolerant by nature and design. France hasn't been muscular uptil now, France just has the biggest problem with islam because it has the most muslims and isn't bending over as easily as the British.
They show the true face of islam much more than the few westernized muslims that have embraced freedom of religion or the taqiya muslims in the West who will play nice while keep on pushing the bounderies. It's never hard to find some hysterical savage mob in some islamic country calling for some head because some Westerner said something about islam. But that is and should remain their problem. France would be smart to make the not so moderate majority of the muslim community understand that freedom of religion works both ways and the only freedom of religion to enjoy for French muslims is the freedom of religion for all the French, including teachers, cartoonists, apostates, gays and women without a headscarf.