The obscenity is in saying Islam is equal with Judiasm

“By now you’ve read about the rampaging Jewish mobs threatening to kill European newspaper editors for a cartoon ridiculing the religious rite of circumcision.

“What, you missed it?

“That’s because no such thing has happened. Yes, there have been angry condemnations of the cartoon run by Dagbladet, Norway’s second-largest tabloid, as anti-Semitic. But there’s been no violence, no mobs, no blood.

“Even so, Dagbladet editors are likening the Jews protesting their cartoon on circumcision to the Muslims offended in 2005 by a now-infamous cartoon lampooning the prophet Mohammed that appeared in a newspaper in neighboring Denmark. The two groups, says Dagbladet, are guilty of a “similar reaction.”

“In fact, the reactions couldn’t be more dissimilar.

“Dagbladet’s cartoon shows two Jews mutilating a blood-spattered infant with a fork and bolt cutter while professing their faith. Pretty disgusting stuff. Yet despite the sharp complaints, there’s been no violence, and no editor at the Oslo daily has been forced to go into hiding from the Jews.

“That’s a pretty sharp contrast to what ensued after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Postand published several cartoons of the Muslim prophet, including a provocative one of him with a bomb tucked in his turban. Then we saw violent riots across three continents, attacks on Danish diplomatic buildings, attacks on Christian churches, the death of scores of people, a plot to launch a terror attack on the newspaper offices and bounties put on the heads of the editor and the cartoonist.

“We’d say the marked difference between the reactions to the two cartoon incidents represents the difference between expressing legitimate grievances and outright intimidation. If there’s an obscenity here, it’s the cheap attempt to lump them together.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/drawing_distinctions_WrFXxSbY5WbvnkHZVnRDPJ

(A major part of Liberal/Progressive stated philosophy is that all things are equal – animals/humans, Islam/Judaism, Islam/Christianity. Socialism/capitalism? Uh, not so much. State control/individual rights and responsibilities? Well, maybe not equal.)

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