Trackbacked at Michelle Malkin, Bloggin’ Outloud:
My previous words on this are here and here.
The cartoons at the center of all of this are here.
For days now, hundreds of Muslims have been demonstrating outside the Danish Embassy in London. The crowds and the posters are screaming:
- ‘Bomb bomb Denmark’
- ‘Nuke nuke Denmark‘
- ‘Exterminate those who slander Islam’
- ‘Behead those who insult Islam’
- ‘Today you are fighting with the soldiers of God’
- ‘Europe you’ll come crawling when muhajideen come roaring’
- ‘As Muslims unite we are prepared to fight’
- ‘Europe you will pay, fantastic four are on their way’
The current uproar over cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper illustrates yet again the fascist intolerance that is at the heart of radical Islam.
“We will not accept less than severing the heads of those responsible,” one preacher told worshippers at the al-Omari Mosque in the Gaza Strip
Let us remind ourselves again – the cartoons were not an attack on Islam. They were instead a protest against the violent intimidation being practised in its name after the author of a totally inoffensive children’s book about Islam had difficulty in finding an illustrator because artists feared they might be attacked. Since then, the violence that has erupted across the world has more than proved the cartoonists’ point. The problem is that the perpetrators of aggression, suffering from a pathological inferiority complex about the weakness of Islamic culture and firmly believing the lies and libels with which they have been indoctrinated about Jews and the west, invert their own aggression as an attack upon Islam by their victims.
The publication of these cartoons of Mohammed are not the reason for the rioting and violence. They are the excuse. Islamic protesters burned down the Danish consulate in Beirut in response to those cartoons making fun of Islam. Riots are ongoing, cars are being overturned and at least one person is dead in Afghanistan. Pakistan is boycotting prescription drugs from companies based in countries where the cartoons were published.
This is absolutely insane. What we are witnessing is the ultimate conclusion to militant political correctness. Many Liberals would excuse this behavior because these Muslims are “offended.” Know this: in the world of Liberals, there is no greater crime known to man than offending Muslims. The more violent radical Islamists become the more the politically correct elements make excuses for them.
That anything so mild could trigger a reaction so crazed - riots, death threats, kidnappings, flag-burnings - speaks volumes about the chasm that separates the values of the civilized world from those in too much of the Islamic world.
- In the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, more than 10,000 Palestinians burned Danish dairy products along with the country’s flag.
- In Ramallah, Palestinians tore to pieces a French flag. They tried to burn it, but the flames were put out by pouring rain. “Europe, all of us are willing to sacrifice ourselves for the Prophet,” the crowd chanted.
- At Jerusalem’s al Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, hundreds of Palestinians threw stones at police after Friday prayers. They trampled and burned Danish flags.
- More than 1,000 worshippers at Cairo’s al-Azhar mosque, one of the oldest and most revered seats of learning in Sunni Islam, also burnt the Danish flag and carried banners that read “Down with the enemies of Islam”.
- In Riyadh, a leading Saudi preacher applauded what he called a new spirit of defiance among Muslims. “It is the right of every Muslim to show joy at this defence of our beloved Prophet,” said Saleh bin Humaid.
- Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, last month withdrew its ambassador to Denmark, saying the Danish government had not done enough to assuage anger over the cartoons first published in September in Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
- On Thursday, Palestinian gunmen seized a 21-year-old German from a hotel coffee shop in the West Bank city of Nablus. He was later released unharmed. In Gaza, where tensions were already high, a hand grenade was thrown into the compound of the French Cultural Centre. No one was hurt in the night-time incident.
This religion is rapidly getting out of control. Muslims can murder 200 school children and their parents, shooting kids in the back, in Chechnya and the Muslim world hardly pauses a moment to notice. Let someone draw a cartoon of their so-called “prophet” and they start burning embassies and looking for Europeans to kidnap or murder. The more our Western leaders make excuses for their behavior, the bolder they become. These Muslims torching embassies and rioting around the world are not what we might consider highly educated. They have little or no understanding of Western culture and the concept of freedom of the press is entirely beyond the grasp of most of them. They believe that anything printed in any newspaper constitutes the official opinion of that country’s government.
These riots and demonstrations are not about those cartoons (and here they are if you haven’t seen them), they are about freedom. To these Islamic jihadist criminals freedom is an enemy. A religion that says you must either convert, kill or enslave those who don’t believe as you is not a religion that would embrace freedom.
With the Madrid bombings, the murder of Theo van Gogh, the London subway attacks, and the French rioting in October and November, and now the cartoons, will Europe at last question their once hallowed sense of multiculturalism in which Muslim minorities were not asked to assimilate at home and Islamic terrorists abroad were seen as mere militants or extremists rather than enemies bent on destroying the West - and Europe?
This story is not going away, and neither is the Islamofascist threat. The freedom of speech we take for granted is under attack, and it will vanish if it is not bravely defended. Today the censors may be coming for some unfunny Mohammed cartoons, but tomorrow it is your words and ideas they will silence. Like it or not, we are all Danes now.
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