Looks like the talking heads have very successfully replaced the cold war nonsense that plagued our minds.

Well done muck rakers.

Keep the division and discontent at fever pitch.

This whole cartoon affair makes me think the entire western world has become weak, cowardly and dare I say, impotent.

To lose a bit of trade - so what. Put radical islam in its place (outside of our countries) and stop trying to appease these morons. To attempt to lay the blame for the violence squarely on the Newspapers, reminds me of a certain event in Sydney. The crime and violence of our Leb Muslim citizens is the fault of the nearest white guy with a tree branch!

"The media has always served, at least initially, as an extension of governmental foreign policies, especially, war policies. To inflame American passion against Spain prior to the Spanish-American War, the most powerful media mogul in the country, William Randolph Hearst sent his reporters to Cuba with the admonition: “You bring me the pictures, I’ll supply the war."

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/23690

Salam, I understand your disquiet over items that consciously defile the religious and/or political head of your way of life. However, the test of free speech is not that which is sympathetic to our views but that which is anathema to it.

If all the rhetoric of the Muslim support of free speech fractures at the first sign of a real test, what then do we make of the Islamic definition of the freedom of speech? Is free speech only that which passes the Islamic filters of tolerable existence?

There is much unfounded passion fuelling the responses to the cartoons around the world which has lead to capitulation in some quarters. This is unfortunate as to deny the right of freedom of expression only validates the maxim that ‘might is right’. That is not religious teaching nor is it a moral foundation; it is simply a corruption of belief.

The significance of freedom of expression, like all things, is most apparent in its absence. Think long before you put your right to insulated reverence before the people of the world’s right to think differently.

Peace be with you

Trade215 if you have fear in your heart don't fret just get out of the way.

Salam Zreika is pushing his IslamoFacist thought, again.

The cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten raise the most important question of our times: freedom of expression. Are we in the west going to cave into pressure from societies with a medieval mindset, or are we going to defend our most precious freedom — freedom of expression, a freedom for which thousands of people sacrificed their lives?

A democracy cannot survive long without freedom of expression, the freedom to argue, to dissent, even to insult and offend. It is a freedom sorely lacking in the Islamic world, and without it Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. Without this fundamental freedom, Islam will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality; originality and truth.

Unless, we show some solidarity, unashamed, noisy, public solidarity with the Danish cartoonists, then the forces that are trying to impose on the Free West a totalitarian ideology will have won; the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest. Do not apologize.