The PRICE of FREE speech

How much are you willing to pay for some spineless idiot to shoot off at the mouth?

"I ask everybody in the world not to let a group of Zionists who failed in Palestine (referring to the recent Hamas victory in Palestinian elections) to insult the prophet," [Ahmedinejad] said.

"Now in the West insulting the prophet is allowed, but questioning the Holocaust is considered a crime," he said.

"We ask, why do you insult the prophet? The response is that it is a matter of freedom, while in fact they (who insult the founder of Islam) are hostages of the Zionists. And the people of the U.S. and Europe should pay a heavy price for becoming hostages to Zionists."

That does NOT sound FREE to me.

Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik said on behalf of the European Union that Ahmadinejad's remarks were shocking and should not be silently accepted.

"These remarks stand in complete contradiction to the efforts of numerous political and religious leaders who after the events of the past few days are campaigning for a dialogue between cultures that is marked by mutual respect," Plassnik said.

A fine time to start talking about mutual respect, after you've already insulted over a billion Muslims.