Douglas Murray is most eloquent on on the cowardice of press and politicians in the face of the "Cartoon Crisis" of Mohammad Cartoons. m/r
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by Mark Steyn Defend Free Speech September 30, 2015
Ten years ago today the Danish Mohammed cartoons were published by Jyllands-Posten.
This morning's edition of the newspaper marks the anniversary by
reprinting their original page from September 30th 2005 (see right) -
identical in every respect ...but without the illustrations. As Katrine
Winkel Holm of the Danish Free Press Society says:
Violence works. A sad day.Red State comments on my speech in the Danish Parliament on Saturday:
One of the primary points Steyn made Saturday seems provocative at first blush but absolutely true on sober reflection. The September 11th attacks on America's power centers did nowhere near the damage to Western democracy than did its craven response to threats made against further publication of depictions of Mohammed. The events of 9/11 were predictably met with great force and culminated with the death of bin Laden. The cartoon riots and the threats made afterwards basically were appeased, and as such the terrorists have won major victories against free speech and other civil liberties both in Europe and in North America. Steyn's full speech can be heard here.The Free Press Society is posting speeches from Saturday's conference in what seems to be reverse order. In my remarks, posted on Monday,
I referred back to what Douglas Murray had said earlier - about the
police as art critics and much else. So, in case you were befuddled by
all the back-referencing, here's Douglas' excellent speech in full, with
those points as he originally made them:
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