Those Americans who think Britain’s state of denial about radical Islamism and the spineless appeasement of its intelligentsia mean Britain has thrown in the cultural towel should read this about the censoring by PBS/WETA of what appears to have been a factually accurate and necessary TV documentary about the intimidation of moderate Muslims by radical Islamists. It was pulled because, in the words of the producer,

…they wanted us, in our opinion, to become virtually apologists for the Islamists, those who are the fundamentalists in this world… They wanted to portray the Islamists in a way that would represent them as being the truer strain of Islam, the truer representatives of Islam. And we said they represent a very virulent, aggressive form of Islam, that is one strain, but the moderates within Islam — and there are millions of them — have an equally valid voice within Islam. They did not want that balance.

Oh — and also because two co-producers of the show, Frank Gaffney and Alex Alexiev, were conservatives. PBS therefore wanted them fired. The fact that on this subject they are two of the most knowledgeable people around was irrelevant.

Land of the free?