Why Does Barack Obama Sound Like Ahmadinejad?

Here are two quotes from two world leaders. See if you can guess the speakers. Leader #1: “Any action that is provocative [and] offends the religious thoughts and feelings of any people, we condemn. Likewise, we condemn any type of extremism. Of course, what took place was ugly; offending the Holy Prophet is quite ugly.” Leader #2: “The future must not belong to those who target Coptic Christians in Egypt … The future must not belong to those who bully women … The future must not belong to those corrupt few who steal a country’s resources … The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” The first quote is from Iranian dictator and Islamist radical Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Piers Morgan’s CNN program. The second quote is from President Obama at the United Nations. The message is the same. Both speakers equate nasty rhetoric with violence. Both suggest that slandering the “Prophet” is off limits. And both fundamentally misunderstand what free speech is all about. More