From: Christopher Bollyn, American Free Press, Washington, D.C.
To: Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum
Mr. Pipes:
I have read your article "Cartoons and Islamic Imperialism" in today's New York Sun and would like to ask a couple questions:
In your article you condemn the U.S. State Dept. response to the anti-Muslim cartoons, which was: "Inciting religious or ethnic hatred in this manner is not acceptable."
You call the U.S. response "so awful."
The first paragraph of your article says that Westerners should defend "the right to insult and blaspheme."
Here is the first paragraph:
"The key issue at stake in the battle over the twelve Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad is this: Will the West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech, or will Muslims impose their way of life on the West? Ultimately, there is no compromise: Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not."
Does this mean that you also support the right of free speech for those who question the Jewish Holocaust? Or is this your sacred cow that can NOT be offended.
Will you defend the rights of free speech for historical revisionists in Europe?
Several of them have been arrested in the United States and deported to Germany where they have been imprisoned for questioning the Holocaust. Ernst Zundel, Germar Rudolf, and David Irving are three of the best known historical revisionists who are currently in prison for speaking or writing about the holocaust in a manner deemed unsuitable under the law.
If you say that Westerners must defend the "right to insult and blaspheme," you must support the right to insult and blaspheme equally - and that would mean blaspheming the Holocaust.
If you say that it is "so awful" for the U.S. to hold the position that "inciting religious or ethnic hatred is not acceptable," then you must support the right for Holocaust revisionists to lampoon, question, and ridicule the claims put forth by Zionists regarding the Holocaust.
Please respond to these questions as soon as possible, as I am writing an article on the Flemming Rose cartoons.
Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
This cartoon is on the Daniel Pipes website. You will note that the cartoon supposedly drawn of the Prophet Muhammed is nothing like those offensive images that portrayed the Prophet as evil and sinister.
