I am sure this will all get worked out when Barak F. Obama flies over there, hat in hand and sits down with them. This should be a wake up call to anyone who doesn’t believe these people are out to destroy our way of life.

Alex, as a student of Middle East studies, it’s funny you would pick freedom of speech as a topic. As you know, there is no such thing in the Muslim world. As you may or may not know since the PD refuses to report any of it, but both Mark Steyn in Canada and Michael Savage in San Francisco are being attacking by CAIR and other Muslims groups trying to get them to stop talking about Muslim extremists.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/show_trial.html
I find the censoring of this information very disturbing. The PD would fight for freedom of the press, yet they are the worst censorers ever.

1. The Western Tradition (the Hebraic-Graeco-Roman tradition and culture) has been viewed with suspicion by the cultural conservatives around the world, even in the West by our own cultural conservatives.

2. The current wave of ultra-conservative Islamism, is based in tribal and cultural traditions that have been anti-thetical to the Western Tradition. Such folk seek to justify themselves by appealing to Islam, but they are no better than the good Christians who used to appeal to the Bible to justify slavery.

3. The irony is that in the Golden Age of Islam, it was due to the efforts of Muslim scholars and the protection of the Jews in diaspora, that much of the Western Tradition was preserved. In fact Islamic scholarship in that era was much higher than anything in Europe at the same time.

4. The real problem is that the dominant political philosophy in the Middle East was and is Fascism. The irony is that it was the Germans and French for the most part who taught them that during their colonial era. What the leaders have done in order to maintain power is to wed this to Islam.

However, more than bombings of embassies or businesses, or even outright war, the one thing that will destroy the Western Tradition, including the Declaration of Human Rights, etc., will be responding in fear and suppression to these threats in order to be “secure”.

Mr. Mayer, I saw your piece “Oh, Canada” in the paper today. Obviously I missed your post last Friday. You are a shining light of truth at the Post-Dispatch and hope they keep you on as a news writer. The PD news dept. has shamefully not reported any of this nor the case against Michael Savage. Here is a link to info: http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=47

As the most “removed” blogger from the PD blogsite, I find that the PD is also engaging in the removal of “freedom of speech.” I have been removed by simply mostly informational websites. No doubt the PD will whole-hearted endorse the Fairness Doctrine to get right wingers removed from talk radio, all the while their editorial page is allowed to spew propaghanda from the left without factual basis. If the Fairness Doctrine does get enacted, it had better include TV stations and newspapers too.

The extreme left is slowly eroding our freedom of speech in this country and it is a crime.

I had to look out the window to see if pigs were flying by. An editorial blog post critical of Islamist bullying? In the Post-Disgrace? By a Post writer?

God love ya Alex. You will do well.