Apparently people out burning the Danish flag to protest the country’s allowing media outlets to publish cartoons of Mohammed without punishment are now “human rights activists.”

Pakistani human rights activists burn a Danish flag at a protest rally to show their anger over the reproduction of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Denmark, Thursday, Feb. 21, 200, in Gujaranwala, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Aftab Rizvi)

See, I always thought free speech was a human right, and that religious zealots who threaten violence in response to free speech they don’t like were the exact opposite of human rights activists

Guess I was wrong

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