Is the American Press Afraid to Talk About Radical Islam?

Just Say Nothing:

By ABIGAIL R. ESMAN

So while the Dutch courts try parliamentary leader Geert Wilders on charges of hate speech (or what in another era we’d have called “free speech”), America, it seems, has adopted another approach: Just say nothing.

Yep – just days after the FBI sent Molly Norris up the stream without a paddle following the threats from Islamic militants bent on killing her for an idea (where is George Orwell now?), the Washington Post refused to publish a cartoon in which the word “Mohammed” was used, even though – catch this – there was no actual image purporting to be of Mohammed. Islam, it should be noted, forbids images of the prophet. It does not forbid the use of his name. See?  “Mohammed.” There, I said it.

And a good thing it is, too: A couple of years ago, the No.1 name for boys born in London was, you guessed it, “Mohammed.”

(Oops. I did it again.)

Is this really the same newspaper that once broke the Watergate scandal?  What has happened to journalism?