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February 6, 2006
Medieval Doers
More on those cranky theistic bomb-tossers from Choire Sicha at The Morning News:
Embassies have been torched, several people have died, ignorance flows from all corners—all for a few cartoons less intelligible than your average "Cathy" strip. Welcome to the new medievalism.
Does anyone see the irony in Muslims protesting the fact the some Danes depicted Mohammed with a bomb on his head by, er, tossing bombs and setting stuff on fire?
Update: Another great post from Savage replete with the Islamic version of an offensive cartoon featuring Hitler in bed with Anne Frank--oooh!
Wow—Hitler and Anne Frank in bed together. Surely that offends the Jews, the Dutch (Frank was Dutch), Dutch Jews, and anyone with any moral sense to speak of. But what, exactly, is the point they're trying to make? That offensive cartoons are offensive?
Exactly, what is the point? In fact, the Islamic press makes the point the west has been making all along:So what.