Countdown to Fatwa in 3….2…..1

The really sad thing about this; it’s not a joke.  It has reached a point where such a drawing is an act of courage, where radical Islamists will condemn such a drawing and murder over it.  Even worse, it has reached a point where people of the west will attack Muir for incitement.  It would not surprise me if, as Hitchens puts it, we see:

… self-righteous frenzy married to a neurotic need to take offence; the easy resort to indiscriminate violence and cruelty; the promulgation of makeshift fatwas by mullahs on the make; those writhing mustaches framing crude slogans of piety and hatred, and yelling for death as if on first-name terms with the Almighty. The spilling of blood and the spoliation of property — all for nothing

Yup, likely we will see more of this and it won’t be confined to Chris Muir, via Little Miss Attila and Rogers Rules; we see another candidate for Fatwa

I’m not a fan of burning books or offending people’s religion, but can someone explain to me why this is being condemned by senators and presidents…

….and this is not:

As a Catholic, I am outraged by the above video, but it is important to show it to make the following point:  I don’t recall Harry Reid’s or Lindsey Graham’s condemnation of the desecration of the body of Christ.  I don’t recall breathless news stories about P. Z. Myers and his various physical attacks on the Eucharist (oddly enough his own tearing of the Koran elicited no response either). And tell me why when this is brought up, the first response (particularly from our atheistic friends) is a history of the sins of Christianity when our response to online Eucharist desecration is this:

….and Islam’s response is this:

The truth is that those who attack Christianity in general, or Catholicism in particular, know there is virtually no risk or danger to do so.  They do, however, know that such attacks against Islam can lead to this:

Theo Van Gogh murdered Nov 2, 2004 on the streets of Amsterdam

Exit question–can someone explain to me why it was a free speech imperative to defend the Nazi’s right to march in Skokie, but not Terry Jones or Ann Barnhardt right to burn the Koran?

Cross posted at Datechguyblog.com