The Book of Mormon

Bret Stephens has a great piece up at WSJ contrasting the reaction to the hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and the Internet-only, seen-by-no-one movie called Innocence of Muslims:

The most "progressive" administration in recent U.S. history will make no principled defense of free speech to a Muslim world that could stand hearing such a defense. After the debut of "The Book of Mormon" musical, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints responded with this statement: "The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ."

That was it. The People's Front for the Liberation of Provo will not be gunning for a theater near you. Is it asking too much of religious and political leaders in Muslim communities to adopt a similar attitude?

The work of pointing out the double standards of modern liberalism never ends.