A police cruiser drives by the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland Texas on Tuesday, two days after law enforcement shot and killed two men outside a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that was held there. (LM Otero, The Associated Press)
Re: “Jihadists come calling in attack on Muhammad cartoon exhibit,” May 5 editorial.
Your editorial about the police killing of the jihadists in Garland, Texas, is correct in that the police did a fine job, and that no peaceful exercise of free speech, however provocative, should be the target of a violent attack. But to dismiss any critical discussion of the event that baited the jihadists as “handwringing” is unfair. Our country was partly founded by people who came here to exercise their religion free of persecution by members of other religions. That the American Freedom Defense Initiative’s “cartoon contest” provoked an attempted attack is scary, and sure, they have a right to free speech, but letap not make them out to be martyrs. They weren’t defending freedom; they were just blatantly disrespecting Muslims. Itap fair to ask: Whatap their point?
Kathleen Corbett, Denver
This letter was published in the May 9 edition.
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