TIME.com: A Right to Offend? -- Feb. 13, 2006 -- Page 1
When religious demands collide with the free speech culture of open democratic societies, friction is inevitable, but the Muslim reaction should not be permitted to intimidate governments or the media. To allow that is a slippery slope in a world where Islam is the fastest growing religion along with high birth rates. There is much more at stake here than religious sensitivities.
What we are witnessing is the underlying violence of Islamic radicals who use this opportunity to fan the flames of hatred against the West furthering their goal of the West's destruction. Here are the cartoons that are causing death and destruction by rioting Islamists around the world.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/sarticle.php?id=12146
More on the controversy here:
http://www.coxandforkum.com/
We should not mollify them.
Tony Blair has it right.
"On Monday British PM Tony Blair criticized the behavior of the demonstrators as "completely unacceptable." He also condemned attacks on European interests.
Blair said he spoke Monday morning with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark, where the cartoons were first published, to offer Britain's full support and say that they stand together in solidarity.
"The attacks on the citizens of Denmark and people of the European community were completely unacceptable, as is the behavior of some of the demonstrators in London over the past few days," Blair said in a statement read by his spokesman.
A range of British Muslim organizations condemned the London protest, including the moderate Muslim Council of Britain to the more radical Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which Prime Minister Blair wants to outlaw because of claims it supports terrorism."
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