The dangerous bigotry of Garry Trudeau's low expectations

Charlie Hebdo didn’t target Muslims, as the liberal media so often declares. It simply included them. USA Today points out, of the 38 covers Charlie Hebdo published mocking religion, the vast majority (21) attacked Christianity while only seven ridiculed Islam.

So, why can’t we make fun of them, again—because they’re “a powerless, disenfranchised minority” as Gary puts it? Last time I checked, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates were doing pretty well. They’re not disenfranchised, either. Islam is too big to be classified that way. The only one thing you can say about a religion that includes 1.57 billion people is it is remarkably intolerant (and disproportionately inbred). Trudeau singles out the extremists as some kind of exception, but, as Ben Shapiro pointed out, this is a myth and the real percentage of extremist thought goes well into the majority.

I understand that not everyone can be brave enough to die for free speech. I can digest that many spoiled Westerners are unaware this freedom includes what some see as “hate speech.” I understand many of us have become so spoiled we now live in a security bubble where petulance abounds. What I can’t stand is when one of these huffy brats wags his finger at the very people who provided him with his bubble in the first place. There is nothing worse than a smug ingrate.