[Tolik]

Kathleen Parker Nailed It!

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[OpusatFR]

The idiots in our State Department have created a situation where the Muslims will view government requests for censorship (don't give me the self-censorship garbage) as government recognizing the superiority of Islam to our resident religions which are constantly derided in the press.

What a bunch of flipping morons! Sharia by default in the blasphemy laws of Islam.

Protecting people in harms' way was the intent, but as in everything, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

We have a bunch of fourth rate thinkers unable to create. No wonder they call it bureauracracy

[Rummyfan]

The Boston Globe, felt no such compunction in the past when they defended "Piss Christ," a photograph of crucifix submerged in urine. Or the Virgin Mary covered in feces.

They are very careful to only be provocative with those who are not very easily provoked, in these cases Christians.

[Alia]

American newspapers surely will print the Iranian cartoons. Won't they?

chuckling...

[CPOSharky]

...the Arab street equivalent of the Terrible Twos...

And the US lamestream press mommies are writing excuses for them.

(Spank the little brats and put them in the corner.)

[eyespysomething]

the world IS a cartoon.

I know I am:

[SJackson]

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[Blood of Tyrants]

No, that would be a documentary about the end of civilization circa 2006 - unless we come to our senses.

WE? THEY need to come to THEIR senses and realize that the world will not put up with the rantings of lunatics and fire bombings and murders for very long.

[Savage Beast]

This is the problem:

Islamic imperialism, which is fundamental and intrinsic to Islam, has become aggressive because the Islamic world has become more powerful and the Western world is in disarray.

Part of Western disarray includes the assumption that Islam must be accorded extraordinary respect and that Muslims must not be offended in any way, because Westerners are afraid of Muslims and of offending them and because Islam is still somewhat foreign and mysterious to Westerners and so is the Muslims' fanatical devotion to it.

Muslims know this, and this intensifies their imperialistic aggression.

Westerners are afraid even to acknowledge that this is true. Muslims know this also.

The world is experiencing a clash of civilizations, a clash of the Islamic World with the Western World. Many Western Leftists refuse to acknowledge this also.

Much of the Western disarray is due to denial and hubris. These are particularly endemic in the Leftist enclaves of the West and among Western Leftists. They cannot take meaningful action to approach any solution to the problem because they are so blinded and confused by hubris and denial.

The first step toward a solution to a problem is acknowledging that a problem exists. Westerners have done this.

The second step is defining the problem. Westerners have not been able to do this.

Muslims have the advantage of clarity. They know exactly what problems they face and what their plan of attack is.

[redgolum]

What I don't understand is why the elite and those in power refuse to believe what we are facing.

Truth is very un PC I guess, and many would rather die than face it. Just like every other time in history.

[BJClinton]

a default riot mode looking for an excuse

Nailed it right there.

[DoctorMichael]

".........Naturally, the Muslim world has gone insane........."

Gone?

Try "is insane".

[RightWhale]

The rage is already subsiding. The Iranian mullahs are probably looking at the results of this trumped up rage and wondering why only a few thousand outraged moslems showed up and the rest of the 1.2 billion moslems are looking around kind of perplexed and embarrassed.