No Humor Required
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And you thought Christianist fundamentals were bad. Check out Storm grows over Muhammad cartoons.
In continuing protests, Palestinian gunmen shut the European Union office Thursday in Gaza City, writing on the door that the office would remain closed until the Europeans apologize to Muslims, Palestinian security sources told CNN.
As much as I don’t like the AFA, at least they aren’t carrying guns and threatening to blow anybody up yet. What is it about religious fundamentalism that precludes a sense of humor, anyway?
P.S. This guy’s a hero, and deserves more media attention:
Meanwhile, a Jordanian gossip tabloid defiantly published three of the cartoons that have triggered outrage in the Arab and Muslim world. “Muslims of the world, be reasonable,” said the editor-in-chief of the weekly independent newspaper Al-Shihan in an editorial alongside the cartoons, … “What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony in Amman?” wrote Jihad Momani.
(See Mohammed Cartoon Conflict Gets Even Hotter.) If there are enough reasonable people like him in the Muslim world, perhaps there is hope for the world after all.
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