"They want to test our feelings. They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers." -- "protester" Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra in Afghanistan, quoted by the BBC, Feb. 6.
(h/t: Taranto.)
Meanwhile, idiot president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's past statement that the "Holocaust is a myth" will soon be translated into a new contest: Iran's best-selling newspaper announced it would retaliate (for the Danish Mohammed cartoons) by running images satirising the Holocaust.
Let me get this straight -- the "goal" of this contest is supposedly to "test" Western belief in free speech; that is, will European and American newspapers print these cartoons like they did the Mohammed caricatures? Heck, I'm sure many will -- maybe even more than printed the Mohammed 'toons. But what exactly is the political point here? The Danish cartoons' message was that radical Muslims are using Mohammed as their excuse for terrorism and all sorts of gratuitous violence; on the other hand, Iran's "contest" cartoons' message will be what -- that a concretely solid historical fact is, in fact, a myth?
Nah, not really. That would actually attribute a smattering of brains to these morons. All it really is is yet another excuse to engage in one of radical Islam's favorite activities: anti-Semitism. Wait -- let's be more general: wanton pure hatred.