New at Reason: Mark Goldblatt on Criticizing Islam

May 14, 2010

When Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered for producing a short movie critical of Islam’s treatment of women in 2004, where were the public screenings of the film? When Muslims in several countries rioted against pen and ink images of Muhammad printed in a Danish newspaper in 2005, where were the public billboards of those sketches? And when the creators of South Park trotted out the Prophet in a ridiculous bear costume, and received death threats in return, where were the mass-produced tee shirts of that image? Novelist Mark Goldblatt argues that if it’s legal, and it's likely to offend the radical Islamists, just do it.

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