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Here is a video report on an attempt by an Al-Qaeda linked attacker to kill Kurt Westergaard - the cartoonist who drew a cartoon of what was supposed to be the Islamic Prophet Muhammed wearing a turbin that was a bomb. The attacker was shot and wounded by Danish police, and apprehended. Westergaard was unhurt in the attempted attack. The Somali attacker was armed with a knife and an ax. Westergard reportedly hid in a safe room with a grandchild while the attacker "raged outside." A Somali man has been charged with trying to murder a Danish artist whose cartoons...

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press aren't in the First Amendment to protect what's popular, because there's no need to. Our Constitution protects the worst because the Founders knew that if you don't, you can't protect the best. The cartoon intifada proves that too many Muslims believe that our First Amendment rights should -- by law or violence -- be limited to what Islamic law allows. Free speech has its limits -- such as leaking government secrets to the press and shouting "fire" in a crowded theater -- but the limits don't depend on whose ox is being...