http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD131506
I suspect this is just some noise from extremists trying to get attention. However, I notice we in the West giving a lot of credence to these things, especially since the Danish cartoon issue. I’d say that the Muslim world (which doesn’t seem so much to include Muslims here in the US) needs to grow up, but we can’t control the juvenile behavior of others. We in the West (and in the US, especially) should stop catering to these sorts of things and stand up for our way of life.
It should be obvious that a picture of ice cream and a square building were not designed to offend muslims. In fact, most of those Danish cartoons weren’t either. And for those that were, if someone’s drawing your religion’s founder with a bomb for a turban… maybe you should stop and ask why they are drawing him that way. Maybe blowing stuff up in response isn’t the best solution.
Let’s be honest though- this isn’t about an oppressed people being humliated by these things. If that were the case, where was the muslim outrage when it came out that the 3 of the photos the “Danish” Imams had circulated were not actually published by the newspaper. One was from a French pig-squeling contest, and another two were apparently created by Muslims themselves, and were much more offensive: “One of the other two additional images (a photo) portrayed a Muslim being mounted by a dog while praying, and the other (a cartoon) portrayed Muhammad as a demonic pedophile.” (from the wikipedia article). I don’t know if Muhammad was demonic, but he did have sex with his 9-12 year old wife.
I think all of this boils down to extremists acting like spoiled children, and getting away with it. They make some outrageous claim, like that the Apple building, or the top to a Burger King ice cream container is an afront to Islam, in the hopes that corporations, politicians and the general public will decide it’s not worth fighting. Every time they get away with it, they are emboldened to strike at a larger target, hoping that in the nebulous world of multicultural sensitivies, we will cave in again and again, until they wield undue political strength. Well I don’t have multicultural sensitivies like that, so I say to the Islamists: fuck off. Go ruin your own societies.
