All my life I had to
listen to Lefties complain that the news Americans got was censored.
Never very bright, what the Left was trying to say was that their
Marxist view of the world, in its purist form, rarely made it into the
mainstream media. The Left always got its pure version published or
spouted on radio but they wanted their message forced on larger
audiences.
Today we never hear that chronic Lefty blather about censorship, thanks to the Internet. Praise be the Internet. Anyone can get on the Internet and anyone (outside of China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran and a few Arab states) can get any material they want. Nobody is forced to look at any part of the Internet and couldn't be.
What brings this up is that I saw Fitna, the anti-Koran video on Bookworm's site. I knew when it was taken down from Liveleak later that the video would always be available to everyone, thanks to downloading. And it is. The site I'm linking you to has much lower quality than the original I saw but it is there.
Nothing for me to comment on. The Torah and the Christian gospels have many belligerent statements and the same video could easily be made about the Judeo-Christian tradition. So what? The only element here is the cowardice of all the people afraid to speak out. And the reality of the threat we all face. Islam is the terror of our day. It won't last forever but it will last throughout the life of my grandchildren.
Bernard Lewis, the 91 year old great Islamic scholar who lived through the original choice, is the source of my closing line about Arab and Persian Islam. This year we Americans get to vote for a choice of Churchill or Chamberlain.