WTF? Did we just FORGET ABOUT our Bill Of Rights?

[Big Papa Goat]

This might be pointing out the obvious, but it'd be pretty stupid for the US government to favor an abstract principle over the really quite important political goal of appearing friendly to Islam. It's not like anyone is seriously hurt by the US 'condemning' something that some Danish cartoonist did. A few words that were left out of that little line that I think might be important: 'coerced', 'prohibited', 'American newspapers'. 'Siding', 'condemned' 'freedom' and 'respect' pretty much don't mean anything but the US doing something nominally politically clever.

That being said, I personally think these muslims burning danish embassies and generally being pissed off about a cartoon is fucking stupid, it is pretty much a reflection of their contemptably slavish religious fundamentalism. But that's not a politically correct thing to be seen to think, so I suppose it wouldn't be correct for politicians to express an opinion like that.