WAPO Removes Cartoon

Robert Spencer, reporting this story on his website JihadWatch.org wrote,

"If any person or group is considered off-limits for critical examination and even ridicule, that person or group has been given a privileged position in society, and has a free hand to do what it wishes. That's why the freedom of speech is an indispensable bulwark against tyranny: it prevents authoritarian rulers from arrogating to themselves and exercising unfettered power.

And in this case, it rewards violent intimidation."

After mentioning that the Washington Post had published two pieces in the past week which defamed him, Mr. Spencer points out,

"It is also virtually indisputable that the Post would never hesitate to run an item that might offend Christians, and would have been the first to start talking about the freedom of speech if those Christians complained. So why is the Post so solicitous of Muslims? Why the double standard? Because they know that when I get offended, no one gets killed, and when Christians get offended, no one gets killed, but when Muslims are offended, people die.

And so the Post's ombudsman, in calling the Post 'too timid' for not running this cartoon, was drastically understating the case. The Post wasn't just 'too timid.' The Post was and is inexcusably prostrate before a group of violent and irrational thugs. And thus the freedom of speech continues to erode, to the detriment of everyone who wishes to live in freedom."