Muslims? civilized? Now that is an oxymoron, proved by their own
behavior...from the assault on the US Embassy in 1979 to the "cartoon jihad"
and all of the way back to mohammed's murderous behavior...
Bruce
http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=125616
Cartoon brouhaha heats up in D.C., too
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Back to those Danish cartoons of Mohammed and the riots of protest against
Westerners they're supposed to have spawned: We had occasion to note
recently that the "Islamofascist Street is easy pickin's for any autocrat
willing to exploit it."
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been more specific. "I have no
doubt that Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments
and have used this for their own purposes," she said. "The world ought to
call them on it."
President Bush backed her up with a comment in the presence of the king
of Jordan: "We reject violence as a way to express discontent with what may
be printed in a free press."
The State Department already had called the Danish newspaper cartoons
"not acceptable," and the fact that Bush and Rice did not repeat such
criticism drew unfavorable comment in Washington. It shouldn't. There's no
need to put on sackcloth and ashes. That will just encourage the
Islamofascists.
What was the nature of the offense? Insulting a key figure of someone
else's religion. That's an offense against taste. It's regrettable but not a
hanging matter. Civilized people do not lose control at such an insult.
The king of Jordan didn't like the president's omission. The king and
other Middle Eastern leaders have been silent for decades about a steady
diet of anti-Semitic cartoons, articles and broadcast programs in the
government-controlled media of the region.
Fundamentalist Islamic clerics and their new government friends have no
standing to claim injury, especially because, contrary to Islamist claims,
it is not forbidden in Islam to depict the prophet. (One scholar, Amir
Taheri, has listed in The Wall Street Journal eight famous images of
Mohammed by Muslim artists in museums around the world, along with examples
of mockery of religion in the literature of Islam.)
Syria would like to distract attention with its rent-a-mob strategy from
its complicity in assassinations in Lebanon and its aid to the Iraqi
insurgents. Iran would like to distract attention from its drive to produce
nuclear weapons and its aid to Shiite militias in Iraq. It's good to see the
secretary of state calling spades spades for a change, something her
department can usefully do more of.
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