Think back to the dramatic Mohammed cartoon controversy of 2006, when Danish flags joined American flags in flag-burning rallies across the Muslim world after a Danish newspaper published a ...

Capitalizing on ambiguities in the understanding of patriotic symbols, extremist groups have attempted to change the meaning of freedom and liberty embedded in the symbol of the American flag.

I say this a few days after I considered removing the American flag I have from outside my house. To be fair, I didn’t really “consider” it as much as I had a “passing thought” about it ...