It will come as a surprise to many Americans, justly proud of the unparalleled right to free expression granted them by their Constitution, to learn that the first country in the world to abolish censorship was Denmark in 1770. Well over 200 years later, the Danish government and people held admirably firm in defense of this heritage when a group of imams whipped up thousands of their co-religionists around the world into a violent rage over a Danish newspaper’s publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Today, according to Reporters Without Borders, Denmark ranks as the fourth-best country in the world in terms of press freedom.