ME TEMO QUE el estimable Victor Davis Hanson fue demasiado optimista cuando el otro día escribía que el follón de las viñetas podría significar que Europa despertaría de una vez por todas de ese sueño profundo que le impide ver el peligro del islamofascismo: Resulta que la Unión Europea está planeando un código de conducta para los medios:

Plans for a European press charter committing the media to "prudence" when reporting on Islam and other religions, were unveiled yesterday.

Franco Frattini, the European Union commissioner for justice, freedom and security, revealed the idea for a code of conduct in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. Mr Frattini, a former Italian foreign minister, said the EU faced the "very real problem" of trying to reconcile "two fundamental freedoms, the freedom of expression and the freedom of religion".

Millions of European Muslims felt "humiliated" by the publication of cartoons of Mohammed, he added, calling on journalists and media chiefs to accept that "the exercising of a right is always the assumption of a responsibility". He appealed to European media to agree to "self-regulate".

Accepting such self-regulation would send an important political message to the Muslim world, Mr Frattini said.

Desde luego que enviaría un importante mensaje político al mundo islámico. Sólo que sería el equivocado.