The Islamic world is losing its mind, or maybe it lost it sometime ago but we in the West are only seeing it now. The evidence is here:
Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam’s revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus on Saturday - the most violent in days of furious protests by Muslims in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
In Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and burning German and Danish flags. Protesters smashed the windows of the German cultural center and threw stones at the European Commission building, police said.
This insanity is only topped by the even greater madness displayed in the West’s collective response:
Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, denounced the decision to republish the cartoons, saying press freedom carried an obligation not “to be gratuitously inflammatory”. Mr Straw, at a press conference in London, said that while he was committed to press freedom, “I believe that the republication of these cartoons has been insulting, it has been insensitive, it has been disrespectful and it has been wrong”. He praised the British press, which up to yesterday had not published the cartoons, for showing “considerable responsibility and sensitivity”.
So the official position of the British government is that this is unacceptable that a Danish newspaper had the gall to publish cartoons of the Prophet? Even the US is getting in on the act:
The Foreign Office’s private view is that the decisions to publish elsewhere in Europe verge on Islamophobia. Mr Straw’s comments were later echoed by the US government, which described the cartoons as “offensive to the beliefs of Muslims” and criticised the European press. A US state department spokeswoman, Janelle Hironimus, said: “Inciting religious or ethnic hatred in this manner is not acceptable.”
This is inciting religious and ethnic hatred?
Then I am proud to post the image. If this sends “normal muslims” into a frenzy of hate and violence then good. They have been exposed as to what they truly are, backward savages who have no place in the civilized world. I am Catholic, but that doesn’t mean I can’t watch the movie Life of Brian without starting a riot or compromising my faith in God. I call on all major newspapers to follow the courageous lead of Jyllands-Posten in Denmark and most recently The Dominion Post in New Zealand which stated: “We do not want to be deliberately provocative, but neither should we allow ourselves to be intimidated.”
We should not let the radical elements of Islam, which are far larger and more pervasive than previously thought, to corrupt and destroy our treasured values of freedom and liberty that we have fought so hard to obtain and preserve. If they cannot coexist with us in a world where we have the freedom to speak our minds in our own countries then so be it. We have said for a long time that we are not at war with Islam, we are at war with radical Islam. Well we have discovered recently that radical Islam means the vast majority of the Muslim world. This is only the beginning of what promises to be a long struggle.
