“All we have are our thoughts; and all we ask is a fair chance to express them.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the violent reaction to the Danish free press.

I think it is right to make critical drawings and films of Muhammad. It is necessary to write books on him in order to educate ordinary citizens on Muhammad.

I do not seek to offend religious sentiment, but I will not submit to tyranny. Demanding that people who do not accept Muhammad’s teachings should refrain from drawing him is not a request for respect but a demand for submission.

I am not the only dissident in Islam.

Sooner or later, the cowardly will have to face the fact that fear-based self-censorship, hidden behind the spectre of "tolerance for minority views," can do so only by refusing to tolerate the minorities within the minorities. 

UPDATE.  Tim Blair has the cartoons, some of which are merely illustrations.  Frankly, I think the fifth one is really funny, and I like the "line-up" one, too, at least if it means what I think it means.