Diana West dissects the pathetic prostration of the Danish daily Politiken to the usual Islamic shakedown artists for the crime of publishing a cartoon of a dead man.

During my difficulties with the Canadian Islamic Congress, some leftie commentator would occasionally wonder how it came about that some right-wing loudmouth like Steyn got to appoint himself the champion of free speech. Well, that’s because, as Politiken’s weaselly “settlement” makes plain, when it comes to upholding bedrock principles of liberty before their avowed enemies, the nancy boys of the Left fold like a cheap Bedouin tent. The Islamo-leftist “alliance” is a pantomime horse in which the Left plays the rear end and Islam sets the direction and pace.