Dastardly Danes Ridicule Literalist Muslims

If we don't take a stand now, free speech could spread. I don’t need to Dane to tell you what that could mean. If they are allowed to get away with these caricatures, a sheik or a president could be their next victim, or, God forbid, a man of God. Congress should take swift action, as it did with the traitorous French. It should immediately pass a resolution requiring that all menus in the capitol refer to lutefisk as freedomfisk. We must do whatever it takes to defend the honor of our buddies the Saudis.
Seriously though, we have a classic clash of cultures. Cartoons stereotyping Muslims as terrorists are destructive and some of these offended even me. When the Prophet himself is represented, a Muslim who believes that even respectful depictions of the Prophet are taboo would certainly be more than a bit upset.
That said, Westerners, I hope, are not going to give up political satire, unless the pseudo Christian “assault ministries” change the United States into a literalist theocracy. They, as the Muslims who “know” God’s will, are on a mission and seek to “stem the tide of sin in the country.” If they succeed, will we then join with the similarly simple Muslims to subjugate Northern Europe, the sensible Muslim world, and non-Muslim Asia before the ultimate clash? I’m hoping that cooler heads rule on both sides until the nuts grow up and develop a more sophisticated view of the world. That’s gonna be a while. In the meantime you can’t run, unless you really have guts. I'm surely glad I live in America where there is tolerance.
Instant mass communication is wonderful, because it shrinks our world and brings us together. On the down side it shrinks our world and brings us together.






"Don't complain, Muhammad, we've all been caricatured here."