Crosspost from my Beacon blog:

http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=5924

Excerpt:

"In a profile of cowardice, Comedy Central responded to a recent death threat by censoring the image of Mohammad on South Park

You can “piss Christ,” bash Buddha, mock the Pope, but humor is apparently not in the hadith. . . .

Academics, of course, led the way by rotting out the foundations of any reasoned defense of a free and civil society. . . ."