Legendary? Yes. Sympathetic? No.

Submitted by Synthesis (United States), Feb 8, 2006 at 10:01

Before you start throwing around Thomas Jefferson's name in your criticism of what amounts to a few poorly-drawn cartoons, consider this:

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814

Sure, Thomas Jefferson is a legendary figure...but I imagine he would be much more critical of radical Islam than this bunch of Danish cartoonists.

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