Free Speech Triumphs

Andrew Bostom writes:

Free Speech Trumps Dearborn’s “Anti-Blasphemy” Efforts .... Earlier today (4/7/12), in defiance of the Dearborn community’s transparent effort to assuage the tender sensibilities of its large Muslim community, by imposing de facto Sharia-based “blasphemy” (and anti-proselytization) provisions, Pastor Terry Jones staged a peaceful protest against the global jihadist imperative to impose the totalitarian Sharia.

Bolstered by the decision United States District Judge, the Honorable Denise Page Hood rendered Thursday, April 5, 2012 (hat tip TROP), Jones delivered his remarks against the imposing backdrop of Dearborn’s Islamic Center of America.

Judge Hood’s decision, issued two days ago, elucidated the eminently reasonable grounds for Jones’s demonstration, entirely consistent with the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech, and peaceable assembly:............