GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Armed militants angered by a cartoon drawing of the Prophet Muhammad published in European media surrounded EU offices in Gaza on Thursday and threatened to kidnap foreigners as outrage over the caricatures spread across the Islamic world.
Foreign journalists, diplomats and aid workers began leaving Gaza as gunmen there threatened to kidnap citizens of France, Norway, Denmark and Germany unless those governments apologize for the cartoon.
In Paris, the daily newspaper France Soir fired its managing editor after it republished the caricatures Wednesday, and Pakistani protesters chanting "Death to France!"
Gunmen in the West Bank city of Nablus entered four hotels to search for foreigners to abduct, and they warned hotel owners not to host citizens from several European countries. Gunmen said they were also searching apartments in Nablus for Europeans.
They just don't get it. Part of the price of living in a free society is putting up with insults. Jews and Christians have borne the burden of bigotry for centuries. Anti-Christian bigotry among American liberals seems to be at an all-time high. Christians rightfully get angry when an "artist" submerges a cross in a jar of urine, or a school punishes a child for reading a Bible during his free time or a leftist cartoonist depicts Christians as rats. But they don't kidnap people. They don't take over buildings. They don't bomb and kill. They express their outrage without committing crimes against humanity.
Not so Muslims. No matter how many apologists appear on TV in thousand-dollar suits, no matter how many lawsuits and complaints CAIR files, Islam will never be accepted in the West until Muslims learn to tolerate criticism and even insults. That won't happen. Islam is firmly grounded in the 7th century, a product of a demented warlord whose ultimate ambition was nothing less than world domination. Muhammad was the perfect Bond villain.
This conflict against Islamo-fascism will not end until Islam is wiped from the world -- or until democracy is. As we can see in daily headlines, the two cannot exist side by side.
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Can somebody please ship them some Valium?
How 'bout a copy of 'The Everything Zen' book?
I have to agree. When our leaders stop pretending that 'islamic radicals' and 'islam' are separate and unique, we will muddle along. I know all about political correctness and people say 'Bush can't say the truth but knows the truth.' I don't believe that for one minute. I have observed his comments, his speeches; it's just not there. Our leaders suffer from political correctness and multiculturalism - all people are the same, all beliefs are good. He couldn't be more wrong.
A perfect object lesson for radical Muslims:
"Part of the price of living in a free society is putting up with insults. Jews and Christians have borne the burden of bigotry for centuries. Christian bigotry among American liberals seems to be at an all-time high. Christians rightfully get angry when an "artist" submerges a cross in a jar of urine, or a school punishes a child for reading a Bible during his free time or a leftist cartoonist depicts Christians as rats. But they don't kidnap people. They don't take over buildings. They don't bomb and kill. They express their outrage without committing crimes against humanity."
Failing to pass this little test, they will prove to the world what little value they bring to liferaft Earth. First to become shark food? Their choice, of course.
In all fairness to the President, there are limits on what the leader of the free world can say. Can you imagine the firestorm that would erupt if Bush actually told the truth? The disloyal opposition, not to mention the international community, would crucify him. I can see Nancy Pelosi sharpening her fangs now.
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