A Call to Comedy

I call upon all artists, writers and academics to stop discriminating against Islam. When on television and in hundreds of theatres jokes are being made about Islam, and when academics will start treating Islam more critically, then Muslims will learn tolerance. The terrorists can intimidate and eliminate a handful of critics of Islam, but they can never kill hundreds of critical minds. -- Afshin Ellian, Iranian dissident living in the Netherlands, in response to the murder of Theo Van Gogh

Quoted in The Social Affairs Unit, H/t Samizdata