Posted on 05/19/2005 5:50:50 AM PDT by veronica
IT WAS front-page news this week when Newsweek retracted a report claiming that a US interrogator in Guantanamo had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Everywhere it was noted that Newsweek's story had sparked widespread Muslim rioting, in which at least 17 people were killed. But there was no mention of deadly protests triggered in recent years by comparable acts of desecration against other religions.
No one recalled, for example, that American Catholics lashed out in violent rampages in 1989, after photographer Andres Serrano's ''Piss Christ" -- a photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine -- was included in an exhibition subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts. Or that they rioted in 1992 when singer Sinead O'Connor, appearing on ''Saturday Night Live," ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II.
There was no reminder that Jewish communities erupted in lethal violence in 2000, after Arabs demolished Joseph's Tomb, torching the ancient shrine and murdering a young rabbi who tried to save a Torah. And nobody noted that Buddhists went on a killing spree in 2001 in response to the destruction of two priceless, 1,500-year-old statues of Buddha by the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
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Thats right, the violent rampages of American Catholics outweighs the minor altercation of Arab insurgenents.
Hey Globe, STHU!
Very well said.
Read the whole thing, bud.
Reading the entire article is your friend.
Aptly put.
The Buddists didnt quite erupt into a violent orgy when the bamiyan buddhas wwere destroyed by the 'religion of peace'. Who gives anyone the right to murder based on alleged desecrations?
Opps, jumped the gun on that one...Sorry. I expected crap from the Globe.
I can think of a lot of reasons for their disrespect. Christians do not fly airplanes into buildings and blow theirselves up is two of them.
I jumped the gun...I don't trust the Globe for fair and balanced...Sorry.
Not a problem. Your reflex would usually be correct.
It's Jeff Jacoby. He's the lone conservative on the Globe staff.
Jeff Jacoby is always wonderful. And might I add that the attitude he expresses in this article has been my view of this whole episode since day one. :)
Right. And right!
What is Jacoby trying to say? That people of various religions all over the world react violently to desecrations? I don't recall any Catholics getting shot by their government over the piss Christ incident or associated desecrations against the Virgin Mary In NYC. He really ought to let the Catholics speak for themselves anyway, what does he know about it.?
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE!!
Read it all.
Islam gets no respect because Islam does not respect or police itself.
Actually a good article.
Thank you.
:)
Jeff Jacoby is just plain one of the most consistent common sense, conservative, family issues oriented journalists we have.
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