[Industrialblog,
February 4, 2006]
Francis on the cartoons
Fran puts in his two cents on free speech. His take is less moderate than mine :)
All the nations of Europe are being sorely tried by the Muslims they've foolishly let into their domains. Not one is without strife from these violent, intemperate barbarians. Unless the Europeans stiffen up properly and show a firm hand to these not terribly covert subverters of liberty and civilization, soon the Old World will no longer be to any degree free; it will merely be old.
But with equivocal statements like those of Sean McCormack issuing from Washington, suggesting that the Danes really ought to censor themselves in the future as a security measure, how likely are the Europeans to bare their swords before the Islamic threat? How likely are they to drop to their knees, as the most vocal elements of their intelligentsia have been clamoring for them to do?