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I usually try to avoid non Venezuelan topics, but this was just too much. We cannot tolerate fundamentalists burning embassies and happily pronouncing fatwas. Sometimes we must take stands. I did find this banner which I thought was appropriate to post in support.

I also wish to state that I am perfectly aware that the jerks behind these gross acts of intolerance do not represent, by far, by very far, the majority of educated Muslims in the world who probably feel taken hostage by such barbarian acts. In fact, I sympathize very much with them as Chavez is taking me hostage in his equally fundamentalist anti US crusade which includes larval anti Semitism, nuclear nexus with Iran and other unsavory things sure to surface some day.

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Note added later.

It has been pointed that the newspaper that published the "offensive" cartoons of Muhammad was a right wing tabloid in Denmark. Besides rising the question of what right wing might mean in one of the most socially advanced societies of the world, it is irrelevant. Freedom of expression is freedom of expression. People making such exceptions are probably ready to accept Chavez future limitations of freedom of expression (already taking place through the "gag law" and the interdiction to publish important and relevant material on the Anderson case).

This type of evasive argument seems to take place in France where indeed the large Muslim community is feared. Center Right newspaper, Le Figaro which has now a significant English section, echoes some of that debate.

There is first a rather wimpy editorial offering an explanaition as to why the Figaro will not publish the caricatures. That they are a lousy and dubious humor is true. That none should published, even one in support or to demonstrate how lousy they were is indefensible.

In another article at least the Figaro reports the widespread condemnation of fanatic threats across all the political spectrum of French Politics. Looks like French politicians have more backbone than Le Figaro or France Soir. A welcome change.