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I want to point out a few things.
1. Just because you have the legal right to do something, that doesn't give you the moral right to do it.
2. Censorship is when the goverment restricts free speech, not when a newspaper makes an editorial decision not to publish something.
3. Exactly how many Muslims actually want to commit violent acts regarding this is not clear. What I see is that it is another issue demogogues in the Muslim world use to excite people. My guess is most Muslims are offended but don't want to kill the Danes.
4. It is interesting that a recent TV show I really liked, The Book of Daniel, was cancelled after two episodes because it depicted Jesus espousing liberal ideas (and ones many reasonable Christians would agree with). I also remember in the 60s when John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus the extreme reaction many had boycotting the Beatles and publicly destroying their records.
