….I would suggest to Mr. Basir and others who hold his opinion that these cartoons should never have seen the light of day, that they consider why the right to free speech was in the First Amendment of our Constitution, rather than, say, the Eighth, or not at all. It is because that right, like the freedom to assemble or the freedom of religion, was considered of paramount importance by the framers.
Sometimes, it requires that we develop a somewhat thicker skin, since free speech is and ought to be granted to people whose opinions of us are less than we’d like. But that is also a lesson worth learning.