Tuesday, March 07, 2006

They're pushing their luck!

We wake up this morning to see video on CNN showing rampaging
Muslims around the world
.  In Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim ... 
Muslim Mobs spreading mayhem.  It seems that these mighty mad Muslims are
rioting and firing their ever-present AK-47s into the air because of cartoons. 
Yup ... this latest epidemic of Muslim outrage comes to us because some
newspapers in Norway and Denmark published some cartoons depicting Mohammed.

Muslim outrage huh.  OK ... let's do a little historical review.  Just some
lowlights:

 

  • 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.  You don't really need a reason.  You just need an
excuse.  Wandering around, destroying property, murdering children, firing guns
into the air and feigning outrage over the slightest perceived insult is to a
jihadist what tailgating is to a Steeler's fan.

 

I know and understand that these bloodthirsty murderers do not represent the
majority of the world's Muslims.  When, though, do they become outraged?  When
do they take to the streets to express their outrage at the radicals who are
making their religion the object of worldwide hatred and ridicule?  Islamic
writer Salman Rushdie wrote of these silent Muslims  in a New York Times article
three years ago.  "As their ancient, deeply civilized culture of love, art and
philosophical reflection is hijacked by paranoiacs, racists, liars, male
supremacists, tyrants, fanatics and violence junkies, why are they not
screaming?"  

 

Indeed.  Why not?

 

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