COMensarations
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Marvin the Confused [Addendum]
It’s not just about freedom of expression.
Yesterday I wrote how I thought that Marvin Read, columnist at the Pueblo Chieftain, seemed ‘confused’ about the Cartoon Jihad.
Today, Mark Steyn has an interesting report that I think sheds a bit more light on just how extensive this matter of the ‘brouhaha’—the Cartoon Jihad—actually is.
The lead-in paragraph is a real ‘killer’....
Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents’ apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel. Selam’s throat was slit twice, to the point of near-decapitation; his face was ripped off with a fork; and his eyes were gouged out. Adel climbed the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and yelling, “I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven.”
This sort of behavior is becoming more the ‘norm’ than the exception.
It’s not surprising when you’re as heavily invested as the European establishment is in an absurd equivalence between a nuclear madman who thinks he’s the warm-up act for the Twelfth Imam and the fellows building the Israeli security fence that you lose all sense of proportion when it comes to your own backyard, too. “Radical young Jewish men” are no threat to “Arab-run groceries.” But radical young Muslim men are changing the realities of daily life for Jews and gays and women in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo and beyond. If you don’t care for the Yids, big deal; look out for yourself. The Jews are playing their traditional role of the canaries in history’s coal mine.
Replace “European establishment” with “media establishment” and I think we’ve got Marvin’s number pretty well pegged.
But, just to give Mr. Read another important clue, Mark quotes one young Muslim....
Something very remarkable is happening around the globe and, if you want the short version, a Muslim demonstrator in Toronto the other day put it very well:
‘’We won’t stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.’’
As that old Book counsels, “Gird up your loins.....”
I would add, either that or get the heck out of the way for those who are willing to do such.