In nomine libertatis - update
Here's something interesting. You know the cartoons we are talking about? The ones that are so deeply offensive to the Muslim faith that otherwise peace-loving people are being forced to riot at the sight of them? The ones that many papers in the Western world won't print, even in the context of reporting on the controversy, due to "not wishing to offend the Islamic community" (read: "not wanting my newspaper offices blown up!")?
They were published in Egypt on 17 October 2005. One of them on the front page, more inside.
No riots, no outcry, no bombings. The paper's editors have not been forced to take indefinite leave.
Is anyone else suspecting that just maybe this isn't really about offence, but rather about some people demanding the right to control what the Western press can and cannot print?
(hat tip to Andrew Sullivan. For the record, he made a similar point about the insult to Islam coming from the terrorists rather than the cartoonists about five hours before I did. I only just found his entry - I didn't nick it from him that time!)
They were published in Egypt on 17 October 2005. One of them on the front page, more inside.
No riots, no outcry, no bombings. The paper's editors have not been forced to take indefinite leave.
Is anyone else suspecting that just maybe this isn't really about offence, but rather about some people demanding the right to control what the Western press can and cannot print?
(hat tip to Andrew Sullivan. For the record, he made a similar point about the insult to Islam coming from the terrorists rather than the cartoonists about five hours before I did. I only just found his entry - I didn't nick it from him that time!)