Does that make me a bigot?

I believe it makes you a realist.

[...] Good piano performance. Thanks heaps for this!… if anyone else has anything it would be much appreciated. Great website HOT Klavier Links! Enjoy!…

Good piano performance. Thanks heaps for this!… if anyone else has anything it would be much appreciated. Great website HOT Klavier Links! Enjoy!…

Who here remembers when “Piss Christ” came out in 1989? For those that don’t know what that is, it’s a crucifix in a jar of urine. The artist, Andres Cerrano, also did “Madonna and Child II,” also in 1989, which is also submerged in urine.

Question: How many death threats do you think Mr. Cerrano received from (excuse the wordage here) pissed-off Christians? I am a Christian, and I’m honoured and proud to say it. I don’t like what Mr. Cerrano did, and I don’t call it art. But I’m not about to go hunt him down for it.

Whatever you think about Mr. Cerrano and the photograph, it was free speech. So why do we fear the reactions of Islamic zealots?

Did the gallery that featured the photograph stop to think about “maybe this will offend some Christians, so we’d better get ready for the bomb threats and suicide bombers.” I’ll bet they didn’t.

Did Newsweek, when they put the Star of David (shown riddled with bullet holes) on their front cover worry about what the Jewish people or Nation would say or do? Did they worry that their head office would have a car bomb driven into it? I’ll bet they didn’t.

It’s easy to deride Christians, to make fun of them, to dip the Bible in urine or the loo … to shoot at it, to burn it. It’s easy because we know that Christians are taught to “turn the other cheek.”

To those that do so to Christians; if you are so brave – try doing that or saying that about Islam … or the Prophet. Maybe Andrew Bolt said it best when he wrote on 6-APR-2007; “So when I see a Western artist mock Christ, I see an artist advertising not his courage but his cowardice – by not daring to mock what would threaten him more.” And yes, he was talking about Islam.

We don’t worry that some Christian zealot will decide that he or she doesn’t like some of the anti-Christian books and will fire-bomb the bookstores that carry them. Yet Borders refused to carry the magazine/paper that ran the Prophet’s charicatures. Why? They were worried about safety.

Dare I say it … they were afraid. They were afraid not of insulting Islam and the Prophet … they were worried about the reactions of the zealots. They were worried about one or more of their stores getting bombed, or some suicide bomber walking into the store and blowing themselves up.

And now, this. The Prophet’s head on a dog’s body. How long will it be before a Christian nun is murdered to “avenge” this “insult to Islam?”

In post #13, Desertlover said “which has to mean that one is not overcome by bouts of irrational emotionalism bolstered by fanaticism as the base of thought and action …” and in post #2, Publiuswarmac9999 said; “Islam cannot be reasoned with, but it can be dealt with.”

This, I fear, is right. Islam as a whole is not ready to come into the 21st Century. They are too subservient, too happy to have their lives, their beings dictated to.

The question becomes will we have to “deal” with Islam? Some people have been talking about a religious war against Islam. Not here, that I’ve seen … but elsewhere.

Folks, I’m not a spring chicken anymore. I’ve been to too many places, seen and heard too many things to return to the innocence of my youth. I’ve been tormented by the nightmares that refuse to go away … the ones that wake one up at night.

This I fear, is another. I’m not a bigot, I’m not an anti-Semite … but the reactions of the Islamic zealots scares me. Maybe that makes me an “Islamophobe.”

I don’t worry about what Christians or Jews will do when they see or hear something they don’t like. Having lived in Ohio, I didn’t worry about the folks from Michigan (except when the Buckeyes and the Wolverines played against each other.) But I do worry about the Islamists.

Does that make me a bigot?

A Danish newspaper published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad?

Twelve? Really?

Here, look the twelve cartoons over.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Jyllands-Posten-pg3-article-in-Sept-30-2005-edition-of-KulturWeekend-entitled-Muhammeds-ansigt.png

How many cartoons do you see in which Muhammad is actually depicted?

So many ‘journalists’ have served us so poorly.

As a dog lover, I am extremely enraged. I am going to impose a barkwa on him.

Amazing. A kat who is a dog lover!

BTW, I second the barkwa.

that may be a truism in the western world … but not in the 4th century muslim world the radicals are stuck in …

Should be 7th century. That’s when mohammed started claiming that God spoke to him.

They say that all these protests show that Muslims are very serious about their faith and we should respect that. Other religions on the other hand just don’t take it that seriously hence they don’t care when people mock them. Muslims are admirable because they take their religion seriously, unlike the Jews and Christians and the rest.

That’s like comparing a hand grenade to an apple.

They say that all these protests show that Muslims are very serious about their faith and we should respect that. Other religions on the other hand just don’t take it that seriously hence they don’t care when people mock them. Muslims are admirable because they take their religion seriously, unlike the Jews and Christians and the rest.

I nearly died when I heard that.