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February 19, 2006
Muslim Rioting: Who Is Pulling the Strings?
Posted by Dave Blount at February 19, 2006 4:47 PM
Berserk Muslims set fire to the Italian consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Friday. At least 10 people were killed, all of them Libyan. The purpose was to protest some innocuous Danish cartoons.
Since this does not make any sense whatsoever, ulterior motives must be explored. It's clear that the rioters are savage hooligans who will seize on any pretext to cause havoc. But who is pulling their strings?
Some have suggested that behind the cartoon issue is a push for hegemony. The moral and culture disintegration of Europe is creating a vacuum, and Muslims are rushing to fill it by establishing the authority to tell Europeans what they may or may not publish, in effect bullying them into accepting dhimmi status in their own countries.
But a nuanced analysis reveals that this theory must be false, because it is based on the racist premise that anything can go wrong in the world that is not the fault of rich white Americans, at least one of whom has stood to gain from the rioting:
Hat tip: Wiggins
