Picasso, Guernica, Free Speech and Islam

Flemming Rose has a superb Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal today, Free Speech and Radical Islam, that I recommend you read in full. My favourite quote from the piece:

It is not cultures, religions or political systems that enjoy rights. Human beings enjoy rights…

Sadly, it is human beings—insecure, immature, cowardly human beings—who march on behalf of these cultures and religions, claiming offense. Such it goes…

Also read:

Do not draw my unicorn
Don’t Insult Pasta
The Origin of Human Rights

(Link via email from Mohit.)