Even jihadists have the right to free speech
January 8, 2008
Who can doubt it? Jihadists promise to “Behead The Enemies Of Islam” and demand the Pope be executed and threaten to rain down a second 9/11 on Europe and call Britain’s Tube bombers “the Fantastic Four” - and no-one ever suggests restraining their free speech. On the contrary, in London the guys calling for the beheading of infidels are flanked by constables of the Metropolitan Police so zealous in their defence of jihadist free-speech rights they threaten to arrest any members of the public who get too near.
What’s at issue here is the non-jihadists’ right to free speech.
Mark Steyn is in fine form today.
