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February 02, 2006
Death threats over cartoons?
A blogger has gotten a death threat over running a series of cartoons in the news that were first published in Danish Newspaper.
It would seem to me that if you object to Google in China you are obligued to support this blogger as well. You may disagree or not with running them, (I wouldn't care to see cartoons making fun of my Catholic Faith) but the internet is the ultimate expression of free speech and that includes the option to offend.
We choose not to reproduce the cartoons here, but we maintain we have the RIGHT to reproduce them here and will not give it away. Remember Chancellor Kent.
Gentlemen, I refuse to sign any pledge. I never have been drunk, and , by the blessing of God, I never will get drunk, but I have a constitutional privilege to get drunk, and that privilege I will not sign away.Chancellor Kent from his Memoirs when a temperance committee asked him to sign the pledge.
Via Michelle Malkin
ADL is opposed to religious, racial and ethnic stereotyping in the media. We found some of the cartoons in Jyllands-Posten troubling, particularly the direct linkage of Mohammad and violence.At the same time, we are gravely concerned by the extreme violent reaction these cartoons have generated in Muslim communities in Europe, and particularly in the Middle East. It is certainly the right of individuals and governments to express their disagreement with these depictions. However, the use of violence, threats, boycotts and other extreme reactions are highly inappropriate and bode ill for future debates involving Islam, democracy and free speech.
This is generating a lot of posts.
Posted by Peter at February 2, 2006 10:35 PM