Dear Editor: The pen is certainly mightier than the sword, as cartoonist Mike Konopacki said in his response to letter writer Ovamir Anjum on Tuesday, but to simplify the negative reaction to the Prophet Muhammad cartoons as an issue of “free speech” is a shameful cop-out.
The reactions against cartoons vilifying Prophet Muhammad are not protests against the right to free speech or expression; they are protests against the racist rhetoric that demonizes the faith of more than 1.2 billion Muslims in the world….
Muslim Students’ Association, UW-Madison