‘Freedom of speech’ is a selective term.

A large number of European diplomats walked out during an address by the Iranian president Ahmadinejad, which he held at the UN’s second conference on racism. The conference was boycotted by amongst others Israel and the US, and Ahmadinejad was the only head of state to attend.

Yes, his address was racist and offensive. To the western world. President Ahmadinejad chose his words in order to offend and cause a stir, maybe even to worsen relations with the West. Or was it a test? A couple of years ago, many Danish newspapers printed cartoons of Mohammed, and under Islam the face of Mohammed must not be shown. Some of the pictures are quite offensive, one is of Mohammed as a paedophile, another shows him as a suicide bomber. Is this not racist and offensive to the Arabian world?

Cheney proves he is still deluded.

Dick Cheney is still the Dick Cheney we got to know, but not love, for eight years. In an interview with CNN’s John King, he strenuously defends George W. Bush and the policies implemented during the administration Cheney was such a big part of. He also launches an outright attack on President Obama, saying that the new administration’s politics will leave America vulnerable to attack.

Censorship in the UK.

Geert Wilders is banned from entering the UK, due to the fact that the British government thinks he is inciting hatred. He is saying that Islam ‘is not a religion, it’s the ideology of a retarded culture’. He has compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and has demanded that the Islam Holy book is banned. ‘Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims’ he told the Guardian newspaper a year ago.