Islamists are raging over satirical newspaper cartoons of Mohammed. This isn’t new, but the hateful, violent rhetoric is escalating.
Radical Muslims are calling for the death and destruction of those who dare print the image of their religious icon. But where was their outrage when their own have killed and maimed in the name of Islam?
Neal Boortz points out:
- Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.
- A Muslim attacks a missionary children’s school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.
- Let’s go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.
- Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.
- Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outraged.
Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and nurses. Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage … but publish a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban and all hell breaks loose.
Come on, is this really about cartoons? They’re rampaging and burning flags. They’re looking for Europeans to kidnap. They’re threatening innkeepers and generally raising holy Muslim hell not because of any outrage over a cartoon. They’re outraged because it is part of the Islamic jihadist culture to be outraged.
Still, many on the left will continue to seek appeasement, as in the case of the Boston Globe. Leftists and their friends in the mass media, however, feel no twinge of guilt or hypocrisy when they employ the double-standard of mocking all of Christianity and Judaism — but bending over backwards to defend (and sometimes nod in agreement with) Wahhabist Islam.
Also, the very act of our own government fanning the deadly flames of appeasement doesn’t help us at all. Follow the preceding link to Instapundit for more commentary.
James Hudnall also opines:
The only thing thugs like these understand is force. And [they're] getting some from us. But the US has not had the help it needs from some of its allies. Largely because they’re afraid of the radicals in their midst. Sooner or later, however, this is not going to be a choice. Just as it was in WWII, you’re going to have to take a side. Those who have tried to undercut us and hurt our mission to fight terror are going to come out looking like collaborators with the enemy. This is why all those anti-war dupes don’t realize how badly their putting their futures at risk. The other side isn’t going to thank them for their efforts to undermine us. The only thanks they offer comes from the business end of an AK-47.
So, whose side are you on?
Backgrounder: The Muhammad cartoons published in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten.
Related: A must-see video presentation from Michelle Malkin.
Related 2: Thoughts from Protein Wisdom, WuzzaDem, and SobekPundit
I am on neither side. Those muslims spoken of in this article, as well as The American Christian Right (specifically folks like these, scare the hell out of me. I avoid them all like the plague. I will not support or defend fundamentalism in any form, whether its coming from the left or the right. If that means both sides come after me, so be it.
BTW, your blog crashes firefox, at least on my machine. Thought you’d find that information useful.
BTW, your blog crashes firefox, at least on my machine.
Your machine probably hates my blog. The current template has been bench-tested on all popular browsers for compatibility, including Firefox (which is my personal browser of choice). Check to see if you’re running the latest version and double-check your plugins.
But getting back on topic, I have a problem with equating the “Religious Right” with the Taliban. Yes, I find a lot of the quotes cited from the link in question to be revolting; however it’s just talk until followers of Pat Robertson actually resort to flying commercial jets into buildings to force the heathens into submission.
Most fundamentalists in America work within the system to bring the change they want to see (not that I approve of everything they want to achieve). Islamic fundamentalists slash, burn, oppress, and kill to get their message across.
When religious extremists in America say revolting things and back it up with heinous acts, there is outrage from the religious community to denounce and condemn those words and acts.
When Muslim extremists say revolting things and back it up with heinous acts, there is little or no outrage from the Muslim world.
In summary, I’m staunchly opposed to religious theocracy — Christian, Islamic, Athiest, or otherwise. I don’t like a lot of the words being verbalized by extremists of any stripe. Words do not bring cause for fear until they are backed up with sticks and stones — which is what we’re seeing from the Islamists. They’re not satisfied with one country or region; they want the whole world under their submission.
P.S.: The “American Taliban” paintbrush can easily be applied to the left as well.
“The “American Taliban” paintbrush can easily be applied to the left as well.”
That’s the reason I’ve distanced myself from the left as of late. I’ve distanced myself from both the left and the right.
As for the religious right, I’m waiting for them to start doing bigger stuff than bombing abortion clinics and dragging gay people behind trucks. Hate is a volatile emotion, and can very quickly turn into violence.
Again, the reason I’ve distanced myself from the extreme left. Violence and hatred do nothing but inflame people.
“As for the religious right, I’m waiting for them to start doing bigger stuff than bombing abortion clinics and dragging gay people behind trucks.”
Again, those were reprehensible hate crimes that were condemned by a majority of Christian conservatives.
“Hate is a volatile emotion, and can very quickly turn into violence.”
Which is presently being displayed by Islamic radicals — which was the point of my post.
When will the world denounce THOSE hate crimes?
We are quick to present examples of moral equivalency by playing the “well, the Religious Right is worse than the radical Muslims” card whenever there is a report of Muslim violence carried out in the name of their god — and we just sit around and condone it by saying “well, the Christian Fundies are just as bad”?
Hate is hate. Violence is violence. A hate crime is a hate crime. You cannot denounce one hateful, violent act without denouncing them all.
Just as we quickly stand up to those who wrongly commit violence and hatred in the name of Christ and say that their acts will not be tolerated, we MUST also stand up NOW to those who are PRESENTLY committing violence and hatred in the name of Allah and say that their acts will not be tolerated.
There is no left and right on this subject; only right and wrong. Neutrality is not an option.
The violence and hatred being carried out by radical Muslims as a means to an end is flat-out wrong. When will the world as a whole put its foot down and take action to stop it?
“Hate is hate. Violence is violence. A hate crime is a hate crime. You cannot denounce one hateful, violent act without denouncing them all.”
I could’ve sworn that I did.
“When will the world as a whole put its foot down and take action to stop it?”
That starts with us, and we seem to be in agreement, although not for the same reasons. You are adressing me as if I am the left. I’m not. I said that I am distancing myself from them. Don’t mistake me for them, because, like you, I’m an individual.
Jim, it wasn’t my intent to address you as if you were the left.
I was trying to stress that concerning the recent Muslim violence — all differences aside, we as a civil society must hang together or we’ll surely hang separately.
” was trying to stress that concerning the recent Muslim violence — all differences aside, we as a civil society must hang together or we’ll surely hang separately.”
Works for me.