The last days I have seen the mob in Syria burning not only the Danish embassy, but also the Swedish and Norwegian... Today the Swiss flag was burned in Libanon...
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Mark Steyn
'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences
February 5, 2006
BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
I long ago lost count of the number of times I've switched on the TV and seen crazy guys jumping up and down in the street, torching the Stars and Stripes and yelling ''Death to the Great Satan!'' Or torching the Union Jack and yelling ''Death to the Original If Now Somewhat Arthritic And Semi-Retired Satan!'' But I never thought I'd switch on the TV and see the excitable young lads jumping up and down in Jakarta, Lahore, Aden, Hebron, etc., etc., torching the flag of Denmark.
Denmark! Even if you were overcome with a sudden urge to burn the Danish flag, where do you get one in a hurry in Gaza? Well, OK, that's easy: the nearest European Union Humanitarian Aid and Intifada-Funding Branch Office. But where do you get one in an obscure town on the Punjabi plain on a Thursday afternoon? If I had a sudden yen to burn the Yemeni or Sudanese flag on my village green, I haven't a clue how I'd get hold of one in this part of New Hampshire. Say what you like about the Islamic world, but they show tremendous initiative and energy and inventiveness, at least when it comes to threatening death to the infidels every 48 hours for one perceived offense or another. If only it could be channeled into, say, a small software company, what an economy they'd have.
In The Province today, a newspaper based in the Lower Mainland of the Province of British Columbia, it is reported that in Halifax, a peaceful demonstration of Islamic-Canadian citizens took place to protest the published cartoons.
Note, peaceful demonstration. That is the way it should be! There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with the publication of those cartoons — however, people need to realise, as have our Muslim friends in Canada, that violence cannot be deemed a reasonable means to an end.
I would argue that anyone who thinks that all censorship, in any respect, is some unholy violation of human rights, then perhaps one should look into hate propaganda law. I'm not saying that this particular case was necessarily hate propaganda; but would you say that hate propaganda laws should never be used?
Would your opposition to their values which are apparently "contrary" to those of mainstream Canada not be, then, hypocritical?
Just got a mail from a friend, looked like this:
Where was the worldwide Muslim outrage on this day?
I'm sorry, my sympathy meter must be broken.
So, when faced with two divergently reprehensible acts, the only option you can see is to align yourself with one of the reprehensible actors.
No middle ground — just for'm or agin’em.
And another Bush-beggared intellect bites the dust.
Quote: Originally Posted by thulinThere was dancing in the streets if I recall correctly.Just got a mail from a friend, looked like this:
Where was the worldwide Muslim outrage on this day?
I'm sorry, my sympathy meter must be broken.
Though, to be fair, it was condemned by most Arab governments. Heck, Yassar even donated blood to send it to the victims. He was looking shocked when he did so. Probably knew his corrupt gravy train was coming to an end.
The real story of what made this an international mess:
Nothing happened until this Muslim "Scholar" made his own book of the original 12 and an assortment of the worse amateur ones he could find and flew around the middle east distributing them.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...rnational/home
For his booklet contained not only the 12 depictions of the Prophet Mohammed that had appeared in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September. He also filled it with hideous, amateur images of the Prophet as a pig, a dog, a woman and a child-sodomizing madman.
Flipping through the book yesterday, he explained that these images had been items of hate mail sent to his colleagues by right-wing extremists who disapproved of their activism. These images, he insistently demonstrated, were separated from the newspaper cartoons by several pages of letters. "How could anyone mistake these for the newspaper images?" he asked. "It cannot be that anyone would make this mistake."
But protesters in Lebanon and elsewhere have cited these images in their actions. So have the organizers of a worldwide boycott campaign against Danish products, which is costing the country's economy.
Quote: Originally Posted by thulinThere was dancing in the streets if I recall correctly.Just got a mail from a friend, looked like this:
Where was the worldwide Muslim outrage on this day?
I'm sorry, my sympathy meter must be broken.
Though, to be fair, it was condemned by most Arab governments. Heck, Yassar even donated blood to send it to the victims. He was looking shocked when he did so. Probably knew his corrupt gravy train was coming to an end.
Quote: Originally Posted by ToroQuote: Originally Posted by thulinThere was dancing in the streets if I recall correctly.Just got a mail from a friend, looked like this:
Where was the worldwide Muslim outrage on this day?
I'm sorry, my sympathy meter must be broken.
Though, to be fair, it was condemned by most Arab governments. Heck, Yassar even donated blood to send it to the victims. He was looking shocked when he did so. Probably knew his corrupt gravy train was coming to an end.
In terms of American militaryspeak this is routinely described as collateral damage.
The fact remains that the cartoon was not a parody of a person; but rather, an infringement of and assault on a religion.
The fact remains that the cartoon was not a parody of a person; but rather, an infringement of and assault on a religion.
