Free Speech, A Free Press and Cartoons

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There is quite a flurry of debate going on about the "anti-Muslim" cartoons showing the Prophet Mohammed in the Danish Newspaper. The writer Ibn Warraq mounts a much more impassioned defense of free speech and expression then I could. Though I entirely argee.

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" -Barry Goldwater