UK - The Terrified media

It has finally come to this. The Western media is too afraid to publish some cartoons - afraid of Muslims. Muslims are firing the first shots in the war against the West and the West in full retreat. Nothing will give them more comfort than to see their enemy turn tail and run at the first sign of danger. This will vindicate their belief that the West is weak.

In an earlier online editorial accompanying the publication of the cartoon, Mr Ramm had taken a strong line in support of free speech.

"[The Liberal] will not be coerced into self-censorship by the threat of violence from those who use a platform of free speech to call for the destruction of the very system that enfranchises them," he wrote.

"We are not militant secularists or atheists, but as democrats we believe that everyone should have the right and opportunity to explore their creativity and the creativity of others in the public sphere, and lament censorship in all its forms.

But that's exactly what they did.

Senior police officers at Scotland Yard warned the magazine its staff could not be guaranteed protection from possible protests, after which the cartoon was pulled from the Liberal's website and replaced by a large white square with the word "censored" placed over it.

It wasn't censored. They gave up their freedom of speech rights voluntarily.
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