Flutterby™! : Principled politics

Je suis Margot: [Sweden's foreign minister] Margot Wallström's principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely:

It is a sign of how upside-down modern politics has become that one assumes that a politician who defends freedom of speech and women's rights in the Arab world must be some kind of muscular liberal, or neocon, or perhaps a supporter of one of Scandinavia's new populist right-wing parties whose commitment to human rights is merely a cover for anti-Muslim hatred. ...