Savage Popcorn

Timothy Garton Ash talks a lot of sense about Fitna:

This is how a mature free society responds to such a film. Not by appeasement of murderers, not by censorship, and not simply by blanket condemnation. Let the majority ignore it – as they seem to have done so far, and heaven knows there are better things to do with your time – and let a minority of those interested engage with it (for my sins, I’ve watched it three times), take it apart, argue with it, reveal its game, refute the refutable and accept the irrefutable, separating those specks of truth from the fat turds of falsehood.

Personally, I think that Geert Wilders is an unpleasantly cynical populist with nothing new – or particularly interesting – to say. But even unpleasantly cynical populists have the right to air their opinions without being threatened.

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