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March 7, 2006
Bennett and Dershowitz - Dhimmitude Of The Media
Topics: DhimmitudeToday, Robert Spencer points to a February 23rd op-ed in the WaPo by William Bennett and Allan Dershowitz, and calls it a "useful summation of the cartoon controversy". I call it indispensible reading for all Americans, and especially the American press:
What has happened? To put it simply, radical Islamists have won a war of intimidation. They have cowed the major news media from showing these cartoons. The mainstream press has capitulated to the Islamists -- their threats more than their sensibilities. One did not see Catholics claiming the right to mayhem in the wake of the republished depiction of the Virgin Mary covered in cow dung, any more than one saw a rejuvenated Jewish Defense League take to the street or blow up an office when Ariel Sharon was depicted as Hitler or when the Israeli army was depicted as murdering the baby Jesus....Be sure and read the entire piece.When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press -- an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms -- would be among the first to surrender.
Posted by Richard at March 7, 2006 8:46 AM
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