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"...and Amnesty International, actually came out against the freedom to publish the cartoons..."
Not surprising - the Secretary General of that organisation is a muslim woman:
Irene Khan - Biography
Irene Zubaida Khan joined Amnesty International as the organizations seventh Secretary General in August 2001.
Taking the helm in Amnesty International as the first woman, the first Asian and the first Muslim to guide the worlds largest human rights organization,
http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGORG100102002
Good for them. I am very concerned by how few newspapers capitulated to political correctness in this. If we can't count on them to defend freedom of speech, what can we trust them for?
Hey Ezra.....maybe this just means nobody reads the Western Standard, eh!?!??!
Three of those new subscriptions are mine. I bought one for myself and two, anonymously, for institutions of Western Standard's choosing.
The reason was pusillanimity, not politics.
PEN Canada often defends speech with which many of us strongly disagree. If we did not, the principle of free speech would be meaningless. Healthy debate has been the way of our society, within the bounds of decency and the law. PEN Canada supports the right of a free press to publish these cartoons, but also believes that a wise consideration of the principle of voluntary restraint would have led to better decisions. Finally, we urge all Canadians as they enter into dialogue on this matter to support two great principles on which our democracy depends: the right to free speech and respect for the dignity and beliefs of others. Both must be upheld.
Someone fetch me an Air Canada barf bag...
"In fact, the only ones who were in a frenzy were the rest of the media. The day our magazine rolled off the presses, for example, CTV interviewed me on three separate occasions!"
Someone with less tinfoil atop his head than I might come to the conclusion that the MSM and the radical Mohammedans are actually in cahoots: "OK, you guys show up and ululate a bit and we'll take lots of photos and we'll both be happy."