Send More WalMarts

5 February, 2006. 246 words.

Oddly enough, I agree with GK’s assessment about Those Cartoons. Muslim protesters, carrying signs about slaying and butchering Europeans while burning down Danish consulate buildings, are not exactly painting their culture in a very positive light. Muslim leaders, too, are suspect, as this opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph points out:

The complained-of cartoons first appeared in October; they have provoked such fury only now. As reported in this newspaper yesterday, it turns out that a group of Danish imams circulated the images to brethren in Muslim countries. When they did so, they included in their package three other, much more offensive cartoons which had not appeared in Jyllands-Posten but were lumped together so that many thought they had.

Sounds like AFA Chairman Don Wildmon isn’t the only one willing to distort facts and manipulate people to get his way.

So what do we do? Fortunately, I don’t have to answer that. But the most sensible writing I’ve seen so far on the subject comes from Pharyngula, an Athiest blog, in a post called One more time.

…Muslims are people. … We have to live with them, unless you’re calling for their extermination or banishment (and no, we aren’t. I hope.) They’ve got this horrible, evil idea of religion stuck in their heads, and the long-term solution is to educate them and imbed more secular ideals in their communities…

That’s right… Build more McDonald’s and WalMarts, and maybe they won’t be so angry all the time.

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