Still no smoking gun with the now famed but elusive Michelle Obama "Whitey" tape.  Maybe someone’s waiting on 4th of July?  I’m watching the Free Republic thread for any signs of life.
Some coverage of that pathetic disg…

…literally.

Predictions: some day England will be majority Muslim and Iraq will be a Christian nation.

What makes you think Iraq will be a Christian nation some day when Christians today are being murdered, crucified and driven out of Iraq?

I understand exactly how strongly Muslims feel about their religion. But I’m not going to bow down to their goofy god.

This, to a leftist, makes it “my fault” if there’s a conflict.

Like I went back in time 1400 years and started a fight.

It is funny (and telling) how they mock Christianity but demand that everyone be respectful to Islam.

Though the prime minister claims he isn’t sure who carried out the attack, he may suspect that the Taliban, or like-minded fundamentalists, had a hand in it.

There’s irony in his complaining about seeing things only in black and white and his not being able to tell the difference between the Taliban and their goals in Afghanistan and AQ and their global jihad goals and the homogenized run of the mill radicalized muslim extremist in his own country who has this inbred since of superiority and entitlement.

I have a Muslim colleague who keeps telling me that I don’t understand how strongly Muslims feel about their religion.
drjohn on June 5, 2008 at 9:35 AM

I share a very similar situation at work with an American convert to Islam. This individual insists that any preceived disrespect of Islam is a hate crime and must be treated as such. Islam is This guy loves Obama….

Picture of Virgin Mary surrounded in poop and vaginas and Jesus in cup of urine = good?

When we practice free speech its our right, when Danes do, its a cultural change that was the fault of the evil EEEEEVIL USA.

I never assumed the guardian was a real paper, but it takes alot of “investigating” to find this twist to a story.

If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

If you don’t like what you see, change the channel.

As far as I know, the cartoons were not originally published in any Muslim country and they only became an issue in the those countries when local clerics used them to start and fuel riots.

And as for offending Muslims in Europe, well they can leave for their favorite theocracy. One of the hallmarks of Western culture is that artists, writers, musicians, etc. can practice their craft, no matter how offensive, without fear of death.

The cartoons were intended to inflict outrage among those with fragile sensibilities.

If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

moxie_neanderthal on June 5, 2008 at 9:52 AM

You jest surely?

JiangxiDad on June 5, 2008 at 9:58 AM

I’ve always found laying down face first to be the best position when assuming the role of doormat for Muslims and liberals.

that it will defend its values that are so rabidly hated by the leftists and Islamists alike.

blatantblue on June 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM

This morning I tried to explain to my shy, quiet nine-year-old daughter how not to be a doormat for other people, and they’d respect her more.

moxie_neanderthal on June 5, 2008 at 9:52 AM

Sarcasm is a hard thing to pick up on, on the internet.

Is this sarcasm, or are you serious?

While we’re talking about our collective sins, Theo Van Gogh was intentionally provacative, knowing full well that his comments and work would hurt the feelings of others. Mark Steyn has also said things which could be construed in a way which might cause upset. The cartoons were intended to inflict outrage among those with fragile sensibilities.

If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

The devil, or just the moon goddess?

a distinction without a difference….

but in the sense it will stand up and defend itself against liberals and Islam in the public arena; that it will defend its values that are so rabidly hated by the leftists and Islamists alike.

unfortunately we won’t…we’re living in laodicea….

drjohn on June 5, 2008 at 9:35 AM

I don’t give a flying %^&* either. Sad, though, that liberals love to insult Christianity and ridicule it and call it dangerous, but refuse to do so about Islam.

As an unbeliever in either myself, I hope Christianity gets some of its militancy back, not in the sense that it will physically harm people, but in the sense it will stand up and defend itself against liberals and Islam in the public arena; that it will defend its values that are so rabidly hated by the leftists and Islamists alike.

They aren’t interested in compromise, only submission. “Liberal” values, by the way, include dissent and the freedom to criticize, two values the terrorists despise most. That was the lesson to be learned from the Prophet Cartoons. When Danish newspapers printed these images, we did not see millions of Muslims rally for “consensus”, “calm”, or “reason”. They demanded blood, and they still do.

And all the while ignoring the fact that an imam added the most inflammatory cartoons and then held them up to enrage the mindless minions.

Why is that fact never dwelt upon?

The whole cartoon thing is an extremely embarrassing episode in the history of the West. The lack of spine displayed worldwide only served (and serves) to embolden and encourage the ummah.

Weakness is provocative. And unwise in the extreme.

I really don’t give a damn.

Any religion that endorses or condones death for a perceived slight is not a religion, it is stupid cult.