What 12 Cartoons about Muhammad Can Teach Us

I can't believe this Cartoon Controversy is still a story. In fact, I can't believe it was ever a story in the first place. Never underestimate fallen man's ability to act irrationally.

This will be the 2,443,871st blog to address the issue, so as the name of my blog implies, very little of it will by my own thoughts. I think the best thing to do here is summarize some of the lessons we can all learn from this whole fiasco.

1. Muslims aren't interested in religious toleration.

The freedoms and rights of Muslims haven't been violated, nor have Muslims been discriminated against, denied opportunities, or been made to suffer personal harm because of their religious beliefs. You can't show me a single Muslim who was forced to do or not do something that violated their religious convictions.

What they are interested in is "Islamic Imperialism," as Daniel Pipes writes in his Feb. 7 column. Pipes quotes Flemming Rose, the Danish editor who decided to publish the cartoons, as saying that "if Muslims insist 'that I, as a non-Muslim, should submit to their taboos … they're asking for my submission.'"

Muslims may be offended by the cartoons, but that should not prevent the Danes from publishing them. Religious toleration does not mean being obligated to conform to the beliefs and morality of different religions. Muslims don't desire toleration. They desire dominance, as Pipes notes, saying, "Western governments should take a crash course on Islamic law and the historically abiding Muslim imperative to subjugate non-Muslim peoples." Submission, not toleration, is the desire of Islamic Imperialism.

2. Islam is not a religion of peace, despite what you've been told.
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