Shut up, Arab style

Not since the Nazi book burnings of the 1930s has free speech been as endangered as it is today. Firebombing publishers, murdering filmmakers, issuing death threats against writers and cartoonists, suing researchers, restricting freedom of expression through the U.N. -- these are some of the ways militant Islamists, their enablers and apologists, are seeking to silence their critics.

Intimidation is another. It operates on campuses and within the Foreign Policy Establishment. A recent experience may be instructive...[snip]

Is there a threat to free speech in their acquiescence to the charge that it is not "legitimate" to criticize the hate speech emanating from Saudi Arabia - a country whose oil-rich citizens continue to fund terrorism around that world? You're entitled to make up your own mind -- for now at least.

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