Posted on 02/06/2006 9:13:10 PM PST by boryeulb
That demagogues and agitators are exploiting those cartoons of Mohammed to advance a war of civilizations and expel Europeans from the Middle East seems undeniable.
But that does not excuse the paralyzing stupidity of that Danish paper in running those cartoons -- or the arrogant irresponsibility of European newspapers in plastering those cartoons all over their front pages.
The storm first broke last September, when Jyllands-Posten published 12 caricatures of Mohammed, including a lampoon of the Prophet with a terrorist bomb as a turban. In the Islamic faith, any depiction of the face of Mohammed is forbidden.
The Danish paper knew this. It published the cartoons to protest "the rejection of modern, secular society" by Muslims. The cartoons were thus a defiant provocation. And they succeeded.
The Middle East responded with a boycott of Danish foods and goods. But when, in the name of press solidarity, Le Soir and Le Monde in Paris, El Pais in Madrid and Die Welt in Berlin republished the cartoons on page one, Islam exploded. For this was an in-your-face declaration by the secularist media of the European Union that it will exercise its right to insult any God, any Prophet, any faith, whenever it so chooses.
"Enough lessons from these reactionary bigots," said Serge Faubert, editor of Le Soir. "Just because the Quran bans images of Mohammed doesn't mean non-Muslims have to submit to this."
Faubert, however, is not a Danish soldier in the Shi'ite sector of Iraq. Innocents will pay the price of his heroism.
Click here to read the rest of Buchanan's column on HumanEventsOnline.com.
Buchanan is shameless.
That Muslims are hot headed and prone to going absolutely crazy at the drop of a hat, isn't the fault of the Dutch.
Buchanan is a dweeb and a dolt of the first degree.
He needs to take whats left of his marbles and go home.
Pat who?
Congrats to Pat. You have become another Jimmy Carter.
"But that does not excuse the paralyzing stupidity of that Danish paper in running those cartoons -- or the arrogant irresponsibility of European newspapers in plastering those cartoons all over their front pages."
Sooner or later it's all coming down Pat.
Has Buchanan gotten anything right in the last 10 years?
Looks like Pat had a big bowl of stupid for breakfast this morning.
Well, he left the GOP, so he was right to believe no one cared about him anymore.
Beyond that... nothing.
I can't belive I liked this guy years ago.
Since Paddy B's views are more in tune with Michael Moore
they could team up as the next Laurel and Hardy.
Hey, It's PB. It's a good conservative, like an ignored tenderloin in refrigerator, gone bad. It's the Pat (Robertson or Mr. B) Syndrome..... Stuck on Stupid
I know, he is so irrelevant - except for the stench of the gas he bloviates into the atmosphere.
Exactly!
*scoffs*
I guess the Europeans have too much freedom.
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