Islam - Muhammad cartoon update

Tim Blair has a great round up of links to the latest.

I dont' like Andrew Sullivan but he's right about this:

UPDATE VI. Andrew Sullivan:

If Chinese radicals were ransacking Western embassies because of a cartoon, and were backed by the Chinese government, we would be outraged, demanding apologies, severing relations, and so on. But when Muslims do it, backed by Islamist governments, we are supposed to take it on the chin, to “respect” their religious traditions, issue mealy-mouthed statements, etc. In many ways, this is the real offense: treating Muslims as if their violation of global norms, and thralldom to medieval conceptions of politics and religion, were somehow acceptable. They are not acceptable.

Glad to see people finally speaking their minds about Islam. It's just a shame that the US media won't stand up for freedom of speech. Here's one that did though:

UPDATE II. It’s a walk out at the New York Press:

The editorial staff of the alternative weekly New York Press walked out today, en masse, after the paper’s publishers backed down from printing the Danish cartoons that have become the center of a global free-speech fight.

Good for them!

Read the rest of Tim's post.

It still amazes me that people have sat idly by for decades (longer?) while Muslims have persecuted other religions, homosexuals and treated their women like cattle. Around the world there are so called "honor" murders, gang rapes of young women deemed un Islamic, in Suadi Arabia women are not allowed to drive, their right to vote or hold office strictly curtailed and Bibles are banned.

I've asked time and again why do people stand up for this religion? Why does the world stand for this bull?

Andrew is absolutely correct, putting up with this medieval religion and Muslims violation of global norms is not acceptable and must stop.
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