I’m with James Wagner on this one:

It’s time for all newspapers, and all nations, everyone who has a media outlet, to make themselves a common target of those who would threaten the freedoms which support liberal societies.

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To be clear: I don’t agree with the stereotypes conveyed via the caricature above. In fact, I think they are dangerous and those who hold them I usually find disgusting. But I also believe very strongly in free speech and freedom of expression. Religious fundamentalists have no right to try to censor this image no matter how hateful or blasphemous they perceive it to be.

Please read Juan Cole on this issue:

Muslims are not, as you will be told, the only community that is touchy about attacks on its holy figures or even just ordinary heros. Thousands of Muslims were killed in the early 1990s by enraged Hindus in India over the Ayodhya Mosque, which Hindus insisted was built on the site of a shrine to a Hindu holy figure. No one accuses Hindus in general of being unusually narrowminded and aggressive as a result. Or, the Likudniks in Israel protested the withdrawal from Gaza, and there were dark mutterings about what happened to Rabin recurring in the case of Sharon. The “sacred” principle at stake there is just not one most people in the outsider world would agree with the Likudniks about.

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