The instant that any ideology is considered off-limits for critical examination and even ridicule, freedom of speech is dead.
Quick...someone tell President Bush.
I don't have a Spenser ping list...but I remembered to ping you this time.
PING the State Dept, and EUrabian left too!
The idea of blasphemy as a capital offense is not an invention of Islamists or Wahhabis, but is deeply rooted within traditional Islam
There I was starting to believe the "only the wahhabis are bad" mantra that some even here on FReep have been saying...
The cartoons cant be taken back. Our only options are to defend the principles upon which our civilization is based, or to surrender.
Surrendering to islamic sharia ideology is not an option, unless that is, you consider slavery a virtue.
Hopefully, that may ring a bell to some.
For those who don't get it, google "Barbary Wars"