Little Green Footballs posted this Arab News essay by Ray Hanania -- a "comedian" who often gets away with posing as a "moderate" in the Western media.
This week, we witnessed the power of the Islamic and Arab worlds to bring a Western nation virtually to its knees. I was amazed at that power. This is over an issue that the nation’s government had nothing to do with. All I can wonder is why the Islamic and Arab world doesn’t harness that power more effectively and change policies that directly impact our causes and our beliefs?
A newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, published a series of cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in a derogatory and libelous manner. Few Arabs or Muslims had ever heard of the newspaper before the controversy, yet they were rightly angered.
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Everyday, newspapers throughout the world libel not only Islam but everything that the Arab world stands for that is principled and just. Everyday, the righteous Palestinian cause is victimized by hate crimes in newspapers all around the world, especially in the United States where free speech has exceptions when it comes to Arab and Muslim voices.
Yet we do nothing about these offenses.
The cartoons, says Hanania, also "may constitute a hate crime, which is considered an offense in most Western countries." In Mr. Hanania's fantasy world, "hate crime" obviously means any reference to which Arabs or Muslims may take offense. If you haven't yet viewed these "hate crime" cartoons for yourself, Charles has the slide show. And Jihad Watch has them up on its front page.
