Put out the lights on the Age of Reason

"Freedom of speech has its limits when it concerns others...How would it feel if Jesus Christ was the one insulted instead?" - Randa Ahmed Essa, Egypt. Right. You're really not very familiar with the work of Monty Python, Lee & Herring or indeed modern European culture in general, are you Randa? Aside from a few ass-backwards argu(ment/er)s against evolution, we'd laugh or not, then carry on about our day. Try it, it's really quite liberating.
Oh, and Peter Mandelson - On The Fvcking List alongside Clinton, now. You're both contemptible Quislings and a disgrace to the tradition that made you. Kindly move to Iran, and just wait to see how they repay your solidarity when they get wind of your private life. Or, even better, why don't the whole accursed bunch of you move to 2003 UB313? So far as we can tell there's no cartoons, gays or Jews within millions of miles. You'll love it!
( Rant 12-inch extended mix )

Look, I'm sorry, you know I prefer to have a bit of variety in my posts, but right now I can't really muster much attention for anything else. I didn't go out last night, so there's nothing to talk about there, and even the novel I'm reading describes countries wasting their strength on foolish internal struggles while ignoring the ancient evil on their doorstep that threatens to destroy them all.
Heh - come to think of it, the few people who are paying attention to fighting that ancient evil dress all in black.

And to think we were born in peaceful times.

Jack Straw just weighed in. On the wrong side.
"Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has condemned the decision by some European newspapers to reproduce cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as "disrespectful".
But he praised the UK media for its "considerable responsibility and sensitivity" for not publishing them."
So, just to recap - cartoons are 'disrespectful', but death threats, demands for free countries' governments to 'punish' newspapers, and flag burning are not.