When Mark Steyn stops with the juvenile wisecracks, he can make remarkable sense.
What, in the end, are all these supposedly unconnected matters from Danish cartoons to the murder of a Dutch filmmaker to gender-segregated swimming sessions in French municipal pools about? Answer: sovereignty. Islam claims universal jurisdiction and always has. The only difference is that they’re now acting upon it. The signature act of the new age was the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: Even hostile states generally respect the convention that diplomatic missions are the sovereign territory of their respective countries. Tehran then advanced to claiming jurisdiction over the citizens of sovereign states and killing them — as it did to Salman Rushdie’s translators and publishers. Now in the cartoon jihad and other episodes, the restraints of Islamic law are being extended piecemeal to the advanced world, by intimidation and violence but also by the usual cooing promotion of a spurious multicultural “respect” by Bill Clinton, the United Church of Canada, European foreign ministers, etc.
Islam is not a religion of peace. Its name means “submission.” Islam is a religion of conquest. And the much of the west is lying down and playing dead.
The Mohammed cartoons should be published in every newspaper in America and the free west, on the same day. Every damned last one of them. The fact that they’re on blogs isn’t nearly as significant as it would be to see these cartoons in the pages of the New York Times.
In the Gray Lady? Surely you jest. Those mokes don’t care about showing images that are quite offensive to Christians.
But, as for those which offend idolatrous muslims who appear to worship a man, Mohammed, let’s be ever so solicitous of their precious feelings.
The excuse that the Mohammed ‘toons can be described in words is nonsense. The same can be applied to those images quite offensive to Christians.
Hypocrites. To think that I used to read the Times.