Coming in the midst of the Danish cartoon controversy and the importance many Europeans attach to democratic values and freedom of speech, it is tempting to see the decision of an Austrian court to imprison British historian David Irving for Holocaust denial as hypocritical. Continue reading »

Neither suicide bombers killing men, women and children in the name of Islam nor Islamic groups beheading kidnap victims nor members of Al Quaeda evoking the name of the Prophet to justify the slaughter in the US of 9/11 nor that in Bali, Madrid or London provoked mass demonstrations or public protest across the Muslim world.  Continue reading »