Luke Johnson, I agree with you fully, but as usual, the dissection and analysis is always one sided with pre-assumed moral high ground. I agree that the curse of terrorism is a menace; this brutality has got to be stopped by all means necessary. Although I agree with your remarks: 'The challenge is, are you willing to stand up for political and moral principles'. This is the crux of the matter and this is where the west defends free speech only when it is convenient. Freedom of speech is a most valued tenet of western liberalism and I fully believe in it. On the other hand, Prophet and the Quran are likewise to the devout Muslims. If these two central tenets are brought in to collision, we are sowing the seeds of brutal conflict between two different people. Al-Jazeera was bombed and its journalists killed both in Afghanistan and in Iraq for broadcasting unedited raw footage of events. Blair and Bush discussed the bombing of the head office of Al-Jazeera in Doha. While western media embedded it self to broadcast sanitised version of truth, Al-Jazeera was telling the truth. No one in the west defended free speech when Al-Jazeera was subjected to state terror.