Finally, USA Today published as a counter-point to its own editorial, an
op-ed from “radical Muslim cleric” Anjem Choudary, who
skips the mealy-mouthed platitudes about the right to free
expression and instead puts the blame on the French government for
not stopping Charlie Hebdo from provoking Muslims,
“thereby placing the sanctity of its citizens at risk.”This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, “Whoever
insults a Prophet kill him.”However, because the honor of the Prophet is something
which all Muslims want to defend, many will take the law into their
own hands, as we often see.I would argue that lambasting a government for failing to
abandon free speech in the face of a murderous heckler’s veto is
more offensive than any cartoon could ever be. But I am glad to
see Choudary’s abhorrent views laid bare in black and
white to be reviled or defended and debated, peacefully, in the
“world of ideas.”
Try this one on for size, you Muslim scumbag: Whoever attacks us, we will kill them.
That’s the direction I’m taking.