Letter: What did they expect?

Editor, Daily News:

Once again the people of the Western world are being held hostage by Muslim extremists. The cartoons exhibited by these groups include two offerings that seemed to come from nowhere. They were never published or even seen by anyone in Europe or the rest of the world. They were also the most insulting. They were then shown by our less than noble Al-Jazeera as being "Western depictions."

So now the politically correct people of the West begin their knee-bending mea culpas and start looking for someone to blame.

How can you explain freedom of the press to people who have never had freedom of the press or freedom of any kind? When are we going to finally get the picture that we cannot win any kind of conflict with the Muslim world by inhibiting ourselves with our own morality?

Our reluctance to stand up and act in kind is viewed by them not as a sign of temperance but a sign of weakness. This temperance will eventually cost the Western world a lot more casualties than the conflict in Iraq.

Brian Kenedy, Bonita Springs