Doug Marlette's cartoon and article

Thanks to the First Amendment everyone who lives in the USA has the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press and Doug Marlette clearly believes in this. Soon after the terorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 his cartoon "What Would Mohammed Drive?" depicting an Arab driving a Ryder truck which has a bomb in the truck was published in The Tallahassee Democrat, the cartoon was seen as very controvesial and different reactions came from different communities.
The Arab community saw the cartoon as an insult and many were enraged because the cartoon in their eyes presented every Arab as a terrorist. On the other hand, some Americans saw this as a funny cartoon while in some it caused fear because some of them do associate every Arab with terrorism. After receiving death threats Marlette wrote an article "I Was a Tool of Satan" in order to clarify the meaning of his cartoon. Marlette explained in this article that he was actually ridiculing the attitude the Americans have towards the Muslims.
In this article Marlette also tells that a journalists right and job is to tell the truth and he is justifying by reminding the readers of the First Amendment. In my opinion, Marlette is trying to say through this cartoon: "There is one fanatic but that does not mean that he is representing a whole nation and religion". Marlette also states that he has ridiculed other religions in the past and that: "No one is less tolerant than those demanding tolerance" and I absolutely agree with this statement. Everyone says that they believe in the freedom of speech but the moment you tell something that is not in accordance with their beliefs it is blasphemy. Marlette's goal was to provoke people, that is his job as a jounalists and obviously he did his job just right.