"When Mr. Vesely inevitably defends his paper’s right (no duty!) to publish controversial opinions, I would like to ask him if he would have published a letter that demanded: “We need to weed out these Islamists and their terrorist conspirators!”?

And would he have headlined it: “Eradicate those who threaten us in the Middle East!”? No, I don’t think so, either. [ D'oh. -ed. ] "