And file under "even a broken clock is right twice a day." Andrew Sullivan stresses a good point.Iconoclastic expressions in America are broadly condemned as being in bad taste. However, there is certainly freedom in America to deride Christ. This is done every day on Broadway, and every other day in Hollywood. Americans do not take up arms in protest. Derisory material at the expense of Jews is permitted only if the executioner is a Jewish comedian. Care on this front is a welcome legacy of the Holocaust: No jokes are told by visitors to Buchenwald.
But is the day imminently ahead when Muslim influence expresses itself here as vigorously as it is doing in Europe? How exactly to account for the nearly universal decision of the press not to reproduce the Danish cartoons? The arrival of decorum in Slate?
The question not being ventilated with sufficient thoroughness is: What are Muslim leaders doing to dissociate their faith from the ends to which it is being taken by the terrorists?
And lost in the selective outrage over the cartoons is the leftist mayor of London is the kind of company he keeps.
The pathethic Boston Globe sides with the enemy of freedom all in the name of tolerant multiculturalism. What did the Globe say about Piss Christ?
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