I, for one, am very pleased that the Danish courts have thrown out a lawsuit by Danish Muslim organizations seeking compensation from the editors of the Jyllends-Posten newspaper for depicting Muhammad "as belligerent, oppressing women, criminal, crazy and unintelligent."
Unfortunately, the official ruling is that the publishing of the cartoons was not done to intentionally insult Muslims. The court should have had the conviction to overturn the laws criminalizing speech that may be considered racist or blasphemous. Such laws are highly subjective, open to abuse, and dangerous to the concept of free speech.
In any case, the suit should have been thrown out immediately on the grounds that truth should be an absolute defense to libel.
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