Early this year, the “Mohammed Cartoons” scandal inflamed Muslims, while western supporters of a free press supported the right to caricatures of, well… pretty much anybody. (For the record, Polimom was supportive of publishing the cartoons, and the target was/is immaterial.)
Many Western writers and commentators defended those cartoons as freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the press…. all part and parcel of western society.
Today, Congress is debating an amendment to the Constitution to ban desecration of the American flag, because it’s so inflammatory to American sensibilities.
Why is desecrating Old Glory worthy of a constitutional amendment, but it’s okay to lampoon Mohammed?
Just askin’…