Mark Steyn notes that many in the West's Leftist ranks show as much eagerness to understand and accomodate every whacko grievance of the Islamists as they they show glee in ridiculing Christianity. Even the symbol of England offends. In England:
Thus, Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British understanding, already feels Ms Owers's ban is insufficient. The cross of St George, he explains, is offensive to Muslims because it was carried by English crusaders in the 11th century.
Hmm. Would that be the 11th century that ended nine and a bit centuries ago? When a fellow's got hang-ups about things that happened a millennium ago, there's no point trying to assuage them; he'll only unearth some earlier grievance, demanding the Natural History Museum be dismantled because some stegosaurus was disrespectful to Muslims back in the Jurassic era.
How is it possible for Westerners to be so darned sensitive?
I'm tired of the West's untiring efforts to understand every loony complaint about Western lack of sensitivity. Let's practice acceptance of diversity but adopt a "reasonable Moslem" standard for judging offense. At one end we'll have discrimination against Moslems in housing and flushing Korans as obviously bad things. At the other end we'll have complaints about Piglet mugs as just too stupid to even acknowledge.
Just once, I'd like to see some worries from Moslems that head chopping, suicide bombings, and honor killings of women offend us. And Piglet bans, too.
These things do offend all of us in the West, don't they?
