If ever there was an example of 1) why all religions should be disbanded and 2) why so many people view Muslims and terrorists as the same thing, it's this latest controversy surrounding a dozen cartoons that has sent so many in the Muslim world to commit violent terrorist acts. The skinny: A Danish paper published some cartoons of the prophet Muhammad; Muslims protested, papers in 20 countries reprinted the cartoons because the protestors made them a news item; now Muslims have resorted to rioting and murder to protest the printing of the cartoons.
Here's the sick thing. I was going to put one of the cartoons here, to show my readers what the cartoons looked like. But, for fear that some crazy person would see it, find my address and kill me, I have opted to just link to them. And that's why I call these protestors terrorists: they try to terrorize people into conforming with their sick views of freedom. Now, Iran says it's going to hold a competition for people to create cartoons of the Holocaust - to see how the Israelis like it (they blame the Israelis for this whole thing).
I can't help but hear these terrible stories of murder in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and others and think that maybe we should just nuke the whole Middle East and start over there. Calm down, I'm not remotely serious. But, that does reflect my own personal level of frustration with the Muslim world. All of this violence over the printing of a cartoon. I'm glad our military is there in Iraq. I'm glad we did what we did there. The regimes that support this nonsense cannot stand.
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