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| Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: | Deliberate act of disrespect* has predictably unpleasant consequences.
Heads need to be banged in Sweden as well.
* (it appears not to have actually happened in the end) |
I intimated as much as that.
The outrage created by the Danish mag publishing a caricature of Mo caused a bloody riot in Slamabaad. And a torching of a 'protected' building.
It should have meant the Pakistan ambassador to Denmark and his cronies, were ejaculated from Denmark. But they weren't.
The West doesn't react like the zlamic hair trigger mob rule pack.
The late and great Christopher Hitchens wrote,
"This book has been about the oldest argument in human history, but almost every week that I was engaged in writing it, I was forced to break off and take part in the argument as it was actually continuing. These arguments tended to take ugly forms: I was not so often leaving my desk to go and debate with some skillful old Jesuit at Georgetown, but rather hurrying out to show solidarity at the embassy of Denmark, a small democratic country in northern Europe whose other embassies were going up in smoke because of the appearance of a few caricatures in a newspaper in Copenhagen. This last confrontation was an especially depressing one. Islamic mobs were violating diplomatic immunity and issuing death threats against civilians, yet the response from His Holiness the Pope and the archbishop of Canterbury was to condemn—the cartoons! In my own profession, there was a rush to see who could capitulate the fastest, by reporting on the disputed images without actually showing them. And this at a time when the mass media has become almost exclusively picture-driven. Euphemistic noises were made about the need to show “respect,” but I know quite a number of the editors concerned and can say for a certainty that the chief motive for “restraint” was simple fear. In other words, a handful of religious bullies and bigmouths could, so to speak, outvote the tradition of free expression in its Western heartland. And in the year 2006, at that! To the ignoble motive of fear one must add the morally lazy practice of relativism: no group of nonreligious people threatening and practicing violence would have been granted such an easy victory, or had their excuses—not that they offered any of their own—made for them."
As far as I believe, Hitch was never off target.
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