On Moslems and Hornets

“There is no question that Terry Jones [the Florida pastor who burned a Koran] is an opportunist. Yet what would one call those Muslims who both incite and commit violence at the slightest provocation? It is worth remembering that when Newsweek falsely reported a Koran being flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay in 2005, 15 people were killed in rioting. Former Seattle Weekly cartoonist Molly Norris has been forced into hiding — in the United States — after she became the target of a death threat following her ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ satire for that newspaper. The most compelling argument against what Jones did can be reduced to the idea that you don’t swat a hornet’s nest. Yet it is precisely that kind of self-censorship which allows the hornets to continue stinging whenever they choose to do so. … This is where the West’s infatuation with political correctness has taken us. It is an ideological bankruptcy so profound, that we are reduced to a disturbing reality brought on by equal amounts of weak thinking, apologist inanity and reflexive appeasement: It takes a bigot to expose a death cult.” –columnist Arnold Ahlert
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