...How hard it is—and how necessary it is—for us to become—and to remain—humans. That means a lot. It means not giving in to the comic-book version of who we are, not giving in to all this medieval rhetoric. It means not doing that. We know, deep down, what's right and what's true and what's needed. We've got to get there. We just have to.
—Toni Morrison, Charlie Rose Show, PBS, (2003?)
somebody—i'm not sure who—wants denmark to apologize.
for cartoons? like the whole country is to blame for what one newspaper did?
are they supposed to apologize to rioters who burned their embassy, or what?
for anti-terrorist toons?!
they also burned a norwegian embassy—i guess the secret's out: all scandinavians are alike—so is norway supposed to say it's sorry too? how 'bout sweden?!
and who do the rioters represent? is all of islam so thin-skinned it can't handle criticism? does all of islam condone violence? do they want rioters to speak for them?
blaming the paper for not foreseeing the trouble made no sense either. no reasonable person would anticipate such extreme overreaction. toons didn't incite the riots. saying so is just an excuse of the truly guilty.
the danes ought to tell rioters to eff themselves and demand reparations from countries where their property got damaged.
if muslim nations want to stay in the civilized community they need to follow civil norms, and their governments must enforce those standards when necessary.
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