The Patriot Post® · The Future Must Not Belong to Slanderers of Freedom

Victor Davis Hanson: “After the September 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Obama wrongly blamed filmmaker Nakoula Nakoula for sparking the violence by posting an anti-Islamic video. Obama chose to go before the United Nations to attack Nakoula (who was conveniently jailed by a federal judge for a minor probation violation): ‘The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.’ Actually, Mr. President, the future belongs to civilized men and women who do not murder satirists who choose while in the West to ridicule any religion they please. Islam wins no special exemption. The issue is not whether the late editors and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo were obnoxious or clever, self-destructive or courageous – but only whether Westerners reserve the right on their own soil to express themselves as they please. Too bad so many of our leaders do not understand that.”