Letters to the Editor
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The controversy has nothing to do with Breathed's lame cartoon and everything to do with American journalism's cowardice
I'm sorry Joan. This strip is just flat lame. The only controversy surrounding it is the fact that American journalists and editors (Yourself not included, thank Allah) are a bunch frightened sheep who have shamed themselves in front of all the men and women who have fought and died for the First Amendment rights that they are too timid to use.
I applaud you, I applaud Salon, for running these panels because in doing so, you are showing the rest of these cowards in newsrooms across America what freedom is really all about.
American editors have no qualms whatsoever about skewering the Catholic Church or the fundamentalist greedheads like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Occasionally, even Israel takes a jab or two. But these Muslims have America and the world cowering in fear.
It's time to stop that. Exercise your freedoms or lose them.