Journalist Imprisoned for Offending Muslims

It’s not getting much press here in the U.S., but the backwards government of Belarus has imprisoned Aleksandr Sdvizhkov and set him to three years hard labor for the imagined crime of publishing cartoons containing drawings of Muhammad.

These cartoons originally appeared in the Jyllands-Posten in Denmark and sparked a global wave of riots, arson, and murder by militant Islamists.

After the cartoons were republished in Zgoda, Belarus’s totalitarian government shut down the newspaper and arrested Sdvizhkov. Sdvizhkov is now being held by the government and is allowed no communication with the outside world.

It is worrysome to see Islamist totalitarians and Communist totalitarians joining hands and closing ranks against freedom.