So Much For Religious Freedom

For those who recently characterized opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque in Manhattan as an infringement on religious freedom, this week provided some genuine examples of what intolerance is about.

• An atheist is threatened with execution for blasphemy by the Islamist terror regime in Gaza
  
   
• A Christian in Pakistan is threatened with execution for not converting to Islam
  
   
• The brutal ethnic cleansing of Iraq's Christians continues unabated

It goes without saying that these types of situations are simply beyond the pale, not just in what we consider to be the Western world, but pretty much every non-Islamic country. Human rights are universal. And we must demand an end to this insanity.