Iran, a predominantly Shiite Muslim country, has seized on the caricatures as a means of rallying its people behind a government that is increasingly under fire from the West over its nuclear program that Tehran says is peaceful but the U.S. and others say is aimed at developing atomic weapons.
Really, this is quite cynical. But Ahmaniafaja;vma!pejrpadad thinks we all must pay for the Danish cartoons:
Iran's hard-line president on Saturday accused the United States and Europe of being "hostages of Zionism" and said they should pay a heavy price for the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have triggered worldwide protests.
What's he going to do, bleed on us? What a card. He can huff but he isn't going to derail our mission to stop his regime from getting nukes.
This is just a pretend outrage campaign by some cynical thugs using some rent-a-mobs playing to the cameras. Oh sure, Moslems will hardly like this any more than most Christians care for some avant garde depiction of some Christian symbol. But like almost all Christians, a somewhat lesser but still overwhelming majority of Moslems are moderate and don't like this awful reaction by a small minority giving all Moslems a bad name.
And don't forget that our friends the Egyptians and Saudis are taking part in fanning the flames of this DCI faux crisis, not just our enemies Syria and Iran.
Clearly, we have classic cartoon humor going on here. It isn't anvils and idiots (as Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame stated), but it is laughable.
Don't let the nutballs turn this into a Christian-Moslem fight. We are properly fighting a narrow sub-group of jihadi Moslems. Thugs and near-thugs who will suffer when we beat them are desperately trying to make this a civilizational war to save their bacon--so to speak. But their resort to pretend piety actually makes that an apt description.
