Those Danish Cartoons of Muhammed

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 2/06/2006 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

You have to click on each one to see the whole cartoon and a translation, but go here to see what has caused the Muslim world to explode. http://www.humaneventsonline.com/sarticle.php?id=12146

When the US government funded an artist who showed the Crucifix in a jar of urine, one of our methods of peaceful protest was to elect a Republican Congress; but let ‘Newsweek’ file a phony report on flushing a Koran, or let some cartoons refer to Islam’s prophet, Muhammed, in ways that link him to violence, and the Muslim world goes violently crazy. It is really ludicrous because the acts of these fanatics (killing people, burning down Danish embassies in Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere and driving the cartoonists into hiding in fear of their lives) make the point of the cartoons. They are reacting violently to suggestions that they are violent. If it were not so serious, and if people were not getting killed and maimed, it would almost be funny. I think the cartoons are blasphemous and in poor taste and should not have been published, but the Danish newspaper had every right to publish them.

My regular readers know that I have stressed over and over that we have to see the difference between the great majority of Muslims who only want to live in peace and those few radicals who want to enforce a return to Muslim dominance by killing and terrorizing anyone who stands in their way. My patience is being tried by these peaceful Muslims who stand silently by (or cheer from a distance) while all forms of terrorism are carried out in the name of their religion.

[Capt. Tom]

My regular readers know that I have stressed over and over that we have to see the difference between the great majority of Muslims who only want to live in peace and those few radicals who want to enforce a return to Muslim dominance by killing and terrorizing anyone who stands in their way.

Clueless.