Paula,
What color is your burkha?
ChknLil,
You have a good point. Only about two periodicals in the USA reprinted the Danish cartoons. That whole controversy was a setup by the Danish Imams, since the same cartoons had been published months before the storm broke, including in an Egyptian paper, and there was no controversy then. Furthermore, a Supreme Court capable of finding the Kelo case a constitutional taking and of letting McCain-Feingold slide by is capable of gutting the First Amendment for PC reasons. We must be much more attentive and protective of freedom of speech.
There is an anecdote about Horatio Nelson that seems appropriate to me. He once picked up a fireplace poker and said that it did not matter in which direction he laid the poker down, but that if Bonaparte said that it must be laid in a particular direction it was instantly necessary that it be laid in some other direction. Ordinarily I would be polite about religios matters, but if Muslims demand, wirh threats, that we not make criticisms of Islam, then it is instantly necessary that we criticize it severely.
