While the media around the world often is offensive for the sake of offense, in the case of Danish papers reprinting Mohommed cartoons, I agree with the media outlets who have reprinted them. When it comes to politics, there is no greater right than the right for people to have free speech. This right should not be trampled by any religious group, and of course if Shaira law is ever put into effect in America the first thing that would go is the entirety of the Constitution. None of the Constitution is harmonic with Islam.
Sadly, most American news outlets are not printing these cartoons. Somehow, they’ve got a misguided sense that one cannot offend Muslims at all costs (note that this rule does not apply to offending Christians–probably because Christians don’t go around blowing up innocent people when they get offended). It is quite ironic that the country that has the First Amendment is exercizing censorship on behalf of those who would destroy the First Amendment if they had political power.
Free speech is too important of an issue to kowtow to extremists. If we surrender our right to speak out against what we disagree with, it is only a matter of time before everything else crumbles away too.
