Michael Kinsley On The Ayatollah Joke Book.

Michael Kinsley writes what might become the definitive article on Those Cartoons:

Of course it is not Western values that are trampling freedom of expression: It is the ayatollah's own values, combined with the threat of violence. The other problem with his little joke about double standards, and with the whole supposedly mordant comparison between denying the Holocaust and portraying the prophet, is that the offended Muslims do not want a world where people are free to do both. They don't even want a world where people are not free to do either, which would at least be consistent. They want a world where you may not portray the Prophet Mohammed (even flatteringly, slaying infidels or whatnot) but you may deny the Holocaust all day long.

In some comments here, a person named Syed intimates that my indifference to the Koran flushing non-event will be for me to address on Judgement Day. Which is fair, I suppose, even though Syed misses the point. Just because he believes in Judegement Day, it doesn't follow that I do or must.