Pamela Geller

She is a heroine and fierce defender of free speech, our First Amendment rights.

She is likely marked for death by jahadis for her sponsoring the art contest, with cartoon drawings of Mohammed on exhibit in Garland Texas/

This is a teachable moment for Muslims worldwide, as well as for all Americans.

This cartoon contest needs to be repeated over and over again across America until Muslims worldwide learn an important lesson: there can be no good religion or political or ethical goodness unless people are radically free to do and say what they want. If they break the law, they will face jail time. If they yell "Fire" in a crowded theater, they will be arrested.

Short of these extreme and rare examples, people require very wide latitude to think, speak and do as they choose to in exercising their religious freedoms, their freedom of speech rights, and their constitutional right to purse happiness in a way that they elect to follow--without state interference or prosecutorial repercussions.

For humanity to survive nuclear war, Muslims must modernize and moderate their theology and practices, and soon.

For supercitizens to live in perfect, uninterrupted freedom as lawful, individuator anarchists in our constitutional republic, their freedom of speech and freedom of behavior options must not be controlled, monitored or thwarted by the state.

Political correctness in speech and behavior must disappear as a non-starter.

For Muslims to grow and evolve theologically, they must  join the West in combating and denouncing those that would violence to force silence, conversions and submission on the part of infidels, they must tolerate and ignore such cartoon satires of their Prophet.

When they no longer react violently with intimidation against the free speech rights of critics and unbelievers, they will have modernized themselves, and become moderate.

We need more Pamela Gellers, not fewer of her.