Vanishing civil rights

The next time one of the leftie screechers gets in your face about all of the civil rights we have lost under the Bush "regime", please point them to this;

"An opera company in Berlin has cancelled a Mozart production of his work Idomeneo fearing a scene in which the prophet Mohammed's decapitated head is rolled on stage could trigger an Islamic backlash.
The decision by the Deutsche Oper, one of the world's most celebrated opera houses, shows how deep-rooted the fears now are in Europe's artistic community about offending Muslim sensibilities."

or this;

"A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday, a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason."

or this;

"An Egyptian professor has stirred up a hornet's nest among his fellow Muslims by comparing the Koran with a supermarket where you can find whatever you are looking for.
Hassan Hanafi's remarks, made at a seminar organized by the Alexandria Library, have sparked a fierce response, from demands that he retract them to suggestions that he might be mad."

or this;

"News reports over the weekend, including in the New York Times of September 30, recounted developments in France involving Robert Redeker, an article of whose in Le Figaro of September 19 on Islam elicited death threats which have forced him into hiding.
Redeker has been described as a high school teacher in Toulouse, which is true. He is also the author of some ten books and numerous article publications, listed on his c.v. He has written for Le Monde as well as for Le Figaro (so he cannot be cast simply as conservative); indeed he is an editorial board member of Les Temps Modernes. "

or this;

"Last week a book publisher told Nancy Kobrin, a psychoanalyst and lecturer on counter-terrorism, that they were withdrawing the publication of her book, The Sheikh’s New Clothes, because they were afraid of fundamentalist repercussions, according to Kobrin."

I'm not saying that our free speech rights aren't in jeopardy, I'm just saying that President Bush isn't the cause of the erosion. The sad thing is, even in asking "Is the West being silenced by Islam?" The UK Independent not only excuses the bad behavior, it tacitly implies that we in the west might be responsible for the Muslim's constant state of agitation!

What is it going to take for the West to wake up to the fact that our very way of life is under attack by a religious group that wants to take everyone in the world back to the 1st century? We need to wake up soon, or it just might be too late.