Islam and — ahem — Free Speech

Geert Wilders, of the Freedom Party and Dutch parliament, wants to ban the Quran (comparing it to Mein Kampf) from the Netherlands.

Note: Peter Hoekstra, the author of this article, originally hails from the Netherlands. The pic is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali marked for death by fatwa because she speaks her mind. Ayaan is not a fatwa. She's a thin-wa.

And I know the Constitution is the Federal law of the land, but let's tip our hats to the moral and ethical document with which it rests: A central premise of the American experiment are these words from the Declaration of Independence: "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." There are similar statements in the U.S. Constitution, British Common Law, the Napoleonic Code and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. As a result, hundreds of millions in the U.S. and around the world enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion and many other rights.