SHOCK REVELATION: DANES TORTURING MUSLIMS

Imam Ahmed on the horrible pain inflicted on Danish Muslims by these cartoons:

"We are being mentally tortured. The cartoons are an insult against Islam, an attempt by right-wing forces in this country to get a rise out of the Muslim community and so portray us as against Danish values."

Well, the right-wing plan worked like a charm – Danish Muslims have shown they don't want non-Muslim Danes speaking freely about Islam. Fortunately for all parties concerned, Denmark's long-suffering Muslims can escape the Nordic gulag, if the pain gets too great, by simply buying a one-way ticket out.

Dan Bilefsky, author of the New York Times article, also thinks free speech is overrated:

The publication of the cartoons in late September has provoked a fierce national debate over whether Denmark's famously liberal laws on free speech have gone too far.

Too much free speech, eh?

For more reliable reporting on the long running Danish cartoon controversy try The Brussels Journal here, here and here – the last link has an attached list of previous posts on the topic.