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February 4, 2006
State Department Sides With Muslims Over Islamic Cartoons
Posted by Dave Blount at February 4, 2006 10:17 AM
In the most sickening exhibition of cringing submission before Islamic bullying our government has displayed since Jimmy Carter was in office, the State Department has actually sided with the maniacal barbarians who openly advocate the destruction of our civilization against Europeans who feel that maybe Middle Eastern savages shouldn't have final say over what we can publish in our newspapers.
As al Reuters approvingly notes, this despicable treachery "could help America's battered image in the Islamic world." If our image among barbarian thugs still living in the Sixth Century is more important than our self-respect and cultural self-preservation, I suppose Foggy Bottom's Kurtis Cooper was correct to snivel this:
These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims... We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable.
No Kurtis, cravenly surrendering to people like this is not acceptable:
Here's an al Reuters observation that ought to send you running for the bathroom with your hand over your mouth:
The United States, which before the September 11 attacks was criticized for insensitivity to the Islamic culture, has become more attuned to Muslim sensibilities.
If you're Christian, you just have to put up with crucifixes submerged in urine and pornographic Madonnas clotted with elephant crap. But Muslims have it better. All they need to do is kill 3,000 innocent people by hijacking our planes and flying them into our buildings and they get instant respect from both our State Department and our media.
The Washington Compost, which had no problem publishing this:
to the outrage of the Joint Chiefs, was among the American media outlets that refused to show us what all the Muslim fuss is about on the grounds that the cartoons are allegedly offensive.
Here are the cartoons that Muslims think warrant a kidnapping campaign, that the State Department thinks warrant stabbing Europeans in the back right when they're starting to show some spine, and that our "elite" media is too cowardly and contemptibly politically correct to republish:
Pretty mild, huh? If you were hoping for something stronger, check out Aaron's CC.
A little context on the pictures above:
The cartoon series appearing on this page that sparked a global controversy was commissioned and published by a Danish newspaper as a deliberate challenge to Muslim insistence that their religious feelings must be given special consideration.
The drawings were commissioned by the Jyllands-Posten (Jutland's Post) to accompany an article on self-censorship and freedom of speech after Danish writer Kare Bluitgen was unable failed to find artists willing to illustrate his children's book about Mohammed for fear of violent attacks by extremist Muslims.
Obviously if we let Muslims tell us what we can publish and what we can't, Ibrahim Hooper at the terrorist front group CAIR will be a busy man, because it will soon be necessary to clear each article with him before it sees print (kind of like what they apparently do with episodes of 24).
Civilization has been at war with Islam for about 1,500 years. The war may experience lulls, but it will not end until one side or the other has been defeated — that's Islamic dogma. Give Muslims credit for one thing — they don't beat themselves by giving ground. So we can't afford to either.
Our ancestors fought valiantly for centuries to preserve civilization from the onslaught of Islam. I hope they can't see what some of us have degenerated into.
Hat tips: Michelle Malkin, Bergbikr, Wiggins, Lucianne.com, Far East Cynic
