OUTRAGED MUSLIMS! OH MY!
We wake up this morning to see video on CNN showing rampaging Muslims
around the world. In Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim ...
Muslim Mobs spreading mayhem. It seems that these mighty mad Muslims
are rioting and firing their ever-present AK-47s into the air because of
cartoons. Yup ... this latest epidemic of Muslim outrage comes to us
because some newspapers in Norway and Denmark published some cartoons
depicting Mohammed. In fact ... here is one of my favorites!
Admit it, this turban/bomb thing could be the next big fashion hit on
the Muslim street!
Muslim outrage huh. OK ... let's do a little historical review. Just
some lowlights:
a.. Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City.
No Muslim outrage.
b.. Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to
escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim
outrage.
c.. Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to
school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
d.. Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq.
No Muslim outrage.
e.. Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and
hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.
f.. A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India. Kills
six. No Muslim outrage.
g.. Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan,
Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.
h.. Let's go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich
Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.
i.. Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of
children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.
j.. Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways
and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.
k.. Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No
Muslim outrage.
l.. Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.
m.. Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim
outrage
n.. Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every
one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.
o.. Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their
shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.
p.. Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting
Mohammed. Muslims are outraged.
Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and nurses.
Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims
.. no Muslim outrage ... but publish a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a
bomb in his turban and all hell breaks loose.
Come on, is this really about cartoons?
I know and understand that these bloodthirsty murderers do not represent
the majority of the world's Muslims. When, though, do they become
outraged? When do they take to the streets to express their outrage at
the radicals who are making their religion the object of worldwide
hatred and ridicule? Islamic writer Salman Rushdie wrote of these
silent Muslims in a New York Times article three years ago. "As their
ancient, deeply civilized culture of love, art and philosophical
reflection is hijacked by paranoiacs, racists, liars, male supremacists,
tyrants, fanatics and violence junkies, why are they not screaming?"
Indeed. Why not
