Blasphemy and religious censors.

Marci A. Hamilton writes that The Organization of the Islamic Conference, an intergovernmental group of 57 states dedicated to protecting Muslim interests, and the Arab League

have approached the United Nations to obtain a resolution that would protectreligious entities from materials offensive to them by threatening sanctions on publishers. Although most newspaper editors in the US did not publish the cartoons, she points out that…[t]he cartoons… are an integral part of a story of extreme violence that targets American values. Readers cannot begin to make sense of the riots with their senseless destruction and deaths without seeing the cartoons.

This is paternalism based on an entrenched Pollyanna attitude. …Failing to hold religious entities accountable for their actions is, in a word, indefensible.

This failure of the free world to hold the Islamists accountable for their actions

…is the road to anarchy, and it is dumbfounding in the context of a war that is being instigated by a sect of Islamists. This latter statement is a fact, by the way, not a slander.

It all boils down to a choice the free world must make:

It can hold groups — including religious ones — accountable for their actions regardless of cause. Or it can protect them from discomfort caused by a lively and sometimes unruly public debate, and thereby excuse their crimes. With all due respect, the answer is obvious.