‘Why I Published Those Cartoons’
Fleming Rose, Editor of the Jyllands-Posten, explains. Meanwhile, there is more fuel for my “paxil in the water” proposal:
- Attacking a U.S. embassy over Danish cartoons.
- “God Bless Hitler.” A German newspaper thinks the message this sends is unclear.
- Nigerian Muslim mobs burn churches, kill three kids and a priest. Fifteen dead, total. What’s most noticeable about all this isn’t the existence of extremism. It’s the lack of a moderate response.
- Tigerhawk is through with asymetic sensitivity. My own feeling is that our treatment of violence and thuggishness as legitimate – even to the point of capitulation to them – emboldens those reactions.
- The newest outrage: blasphemous Mohammed emoticons!
- Still no takers on my fatwa offering a hundred bucks to anyone who smears a violence-inciting Pakistani cleric in lard.
Yes. I have been tired of how education and intellectualism has deprived so many of common sense.
Like with the days of riots in France. I went to a French club meeting at my old college and talked to a professor who I’ve kept in touch with all these years. He showed some articles from the press — one saying it was a product of discrimination and economics and one talking about the religious extremism. The prof kept saying how the one was all wrong, because it had nothing to do with religion, it was a social issue. Nothing to do with religion. It was a social issue. I forget the exact terms, but I eventually wanted to ask him how religion divorced itself from society. I know he is an atheist, so he shouldn’t have an issue with seeing religion in the cold light of reality, should he?
It reminds me of a note a few days after 9/11. It was how Duke or North Carolina, one of the elite schools in the South, had invited people from the Taliban to come discuss the “other side” of the story of their society — the pro-side of how they were creating a viable alternative.
Or, like the American grad student in Korean Studies who said after a panel discussion, “Who are WE to say Juche doesn’t work?”
If nobody but a North Korean has the natural right to say Juche is full of crap, I don’t want to live on this planet….