Rashid Metwan wrote:I agree that the violence has gotten out of hand in places but most of the Moslem world is reacting in much the same way that the Christian world did to the Last Temptation of Christ or Priest or anything else critical of Christianity. If Christians have the right to get angry don't Moslems also?
Although a fan, I wouldn’t go along with John Lennon’s sentiment “Image there’s no heaven” or “Imagine no religion”. “Imagine no religion proselytizing other than peacefully” would be nice though. In my opinion, the Muslims offended by the cartoons should just end all business with the newspapers publishing them. Protesting at embassies or against Denmark in general makes no sense. I’m sure most Danes, given the opportunity, would be decent enough to refrain from issuing gratuitous insults towards Islam, or any other religion. The Holocaust cartoon contest proposed by the Iranian newspaper is also an apt response to hypocrisy in the west. I’ll bet the cartoons published will not belittle those who did suffer during the so-called Holocaust. But the endless shake-downs by the Holocaust racketeers, all the while proclaiming that they don’t believe in collective guilt, provides much grist for lampooning. Also there is the mawkish phenomenon of Jewish dominated Hollywood putting our more films about the Holocaust than about all other tragedies in history combined (and “based on a true story”)
. But the violent and frenzied protests of Muslims over some inconsequential editor’s provocation plays into the hands of the Judeo-supremacists. As an example, I had the “Colbert Report” on the TV the other night (it’s a comedy show that lampoons politics and modern culture), and who comes on as the guest in the final minutes but media-hound and Israel-firster supreme, shyster Allan Dershowitz. Mr. Dershowitz has written a booked called “Preemption” in which he discusses G.W. Bush’s post 9/11 policy. Since the Iraqi “preemption” has turned from cakewalk to chaos, Mr. Dershowitz feigned a somewhat skeptical approach to its prudence. After all, it's been done and checked off the list. Passé now. But there is a country for which Dershowitz in sure preemption is the answer: Iran. He tells us that the Iranian president “wants to kill” everybody associated with the Danish cartoons. Can’t have that guy around. No doubt Mr. Dershowitz pulled the quote out of his a*s, but an uninformed public will buy into it more easily when they see the violent protests. Anyway, I switched the channel at that point (can’t take too much of Herr Dershowitz unless maybe he is in debate with Normal Finkelstein) but I would bet the farm he went on to say what a horrible “Holocaust denier” Ahmadinejad is to boot.
The best revenge against “The Last Temptation of Christ” is that, in spite of certain good reviews, it is a brutally boring and awful film, or at least the hour or so I sat through was. Martin Scorsese took a plunge in stature, but I don’t think Jesus Christ did. Similarly, several of the Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad were republished at “World Net Daily” and only one I saw was even remotely clever or witty. They would be long forgotten if not for the resultant demonstrations.
