Daily Kos, the prememinent liberal blog, has many posters who like to smear and defame and act tough. If the subject is Bush, Hillary, or the Iraq war, they step up and do their best to pretend they are all the good guys who are fighting for a better world for all, then proceed to write posts condemning these things they see as unfair, unjust, or down-right evil. But when it comes to the unsafe target of Islamic fundamentalism, they have little to say. You would think a website that pretends to be some sort of safeguard for free speech and universal human rights would set its target on the biggest, heaviest gorilla of them all, but that's not the case.

For example, I did a search for the title of the Dutch film "Fitna." Fitna is the anti-Islam film by Geert Wilders and is at the forefront of any discussion of free speech that is to be had today. The result: 0 posts. I searched for a reference to "Mohammed cartoons," another hot button free speech issue. It returned 1 result, and that was actually a post attacking Bush on water-boarding.

Of course, Kos posters can write about whatever they want, but I find it funny and a bit hypocritical that they are so constantly outraged about Republicans and/or "Neo-cons" and the percieved stripping away of their Constitutional rights, yet ignore what many believe is an even bigger threat to all of our freedoms. They have said the cruelest, most vile things about their fellow Americans, but when it comes to a group of people who are the biggest violators of human rights on the planet, they ignore the discussion completely. I guess it's easy to talk tough when your target won't actually do the things you accuse it of, like depriving you of your rights or silencing you. When the target is Fundamentalist Islam, and is actually guilty of many of the accusations made against it, and might actually kill you for voicing your freedom of opinion, (see Theo Van Gogh, for example) you just shut up about it and look for easier, less challenging targets.

Pathetic.