Radical Muslims aren’t alone



We read:
"So it turns out that contrary to widespread impression, the American government is just as willing to step all over people’s right to free expressions as are governments in what are deemed more tyrannical countries.

News has it that the Washington based Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery “is removing a video after complaints from a Catholic group that the images were sacrilegious.” A video by the artist David Wojnarowicz is supposed to be “hate speech,” according to Catholic League President Bill Donohue. The video depicted a swarm of ants crawling on a crucified Christ figure. He contended that it was meant to insult Christians and this warranted its being removed–that is, banned...

And certainly what the Gallery did, however much it had logic on its side, doesn’t differ very much from what radical Muslims did when those Danish newspapers published cartoons in which the founder of Islam was ridiculed.

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Trying to impose Christian values on non-Christians was once rather common (Sunday laws etc.) but thankfully has now mostly faded away.

Still, If Muslims are to have their sensitivities protected -- which is now common -- surely Christians are entitled to the same treatment.

As a libertarian, I would wish that both Christian and Islamic censorship were disallowed but we don't live in a perfect world. Mainly under Muslim and Leftist influence, censorship seems in fact to be getting more prevalent. A slippery slope is in operation, I think.

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