Islam threatens free speech

Here is an excellent editorial that outlines the threat to our freedom of speech by Islam.

At about the same time Mr. Nasab's "un-Islamic" articles were getting the Sharia treatment in Islamic Afghanistan, Jyllands-Posten, a Danish daily newspaper, was taking it on itself to re-assert the venerable tradition of free speech in Lutheran Denmark. Why and how? Having learned that a Danish author couldn't find an illustrator to depict Mohammed for an upcoming children's book because Danish illustrators were intimidated by Muslim strictures against depicting the Islamic prophet, the newspaper challenged artists to submit drawings of Mohammed for publication. It was a test, said editor Carsten Juste, of whether the threat of Islamic terrorism — and the influence of Sharia — was encroaching on free speech in Denmark.