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February 06, 2006
On Islamic Rage
Violent protests continue today over and "offensive" Danish cartoon depiction of the prophet Muhammed by Muslims across the world. While some will see these protests and the violence brought with them as the work of an isolated sect of Islam that embraces violence and rage I suspect many more will generalize all Muslims as being violent and ready to over react to the least slight.
And why not? The news is littered with accounts of people being hung, burned, beheaded, and poisoned in the name of Islam. Iran has denounced the cartoon and severed trade ties with Denmark over the incident. Apparently its blasphemous to draw a cartoon but perfectly okay build a nuclear bomb with the intent of using it against "infidel" countries.
Do these people even know what their protesting? I think the outrage over the cartoon has passed and now protesters are just digging up other reasons to destroy stuff. While in one verse protesters chant "God is Greatest" in the next they chant "Death to America". News flash, America doesn't have anything to do with that cartoon. One has to wonder if these protesters just really like being angry.
These people take themselves way to seriously. Jews have had it way worse than Muslims for way longer and yet you don't see throngs of Jews taking to the streets and bombing buildings. What if every time a Christian was beheaded in Iraq we burned down a few Muslim neighborhoods? Muslim leaders say they want acceptance but from the look of these protestors they want domination, or at least an excuse to stay angry.
I hope these protests end quickly, and I hope while Americans and Christians learn more about Islam and learn to accept it Muslims are doing the same for us.
Posted by at February 6, 2006 07:59 PM