Myrhaf rapporterar om en händelse som är som direkt tagen ur i Atlas Shrugged. Tragiskt och underhållande på en och samma gång.
George Reisman skrev, som vanligt, ett läsvärt inlägg om vem det är som bidrar till att ”förolämpa” islam, nämligen de radikala muslimerna själva:
In retaliation for the publication of these cartoons, Iranian officials have launched a contest to encourage the drawing of cartoons mocking the Holocaust and its murder of six million Jews by the Nazis in World War II. The pain and outrage inflicted on Jews by these cartoons, they believe, will be comparable to that inflicted on Muslims by the earlier cartoons. Already, a cartoon has been in published by the Arab European League depicting Hitler in bed with Anne Frank and telling her to put that in her diary.
The Iranian officials do not appear to be very intelligent. They do not seem to realize that they are helping to build a record that will cause still more ridicule of Muhammad. To the extent that their contest is promoted in the name of Islam and the teachings of Muhammad, the set of cartoons after theirs will quite reasonably show the Prophet joining with Hitler in the murder of Jews. For exactly that is what the Iranian officials and all the imams, sheiks, muftis, ayatollahs, and others who add their endorsement will have taught the world to believe is part of Islam.
Och Edward Cline skrev igår ett långt och intressant inlägg om i vilken han dels ifrågasätter huruvida det verkligen finns några moderata muslimer, och dels huruvida de så kallade moderata muslimerna skulle kunna ”tämja” islam:
An acquaintance asked me recently, in response to a statement of mine in a past article on the Danish cartoon crisis, if it was not possible for Islam to undergo the same ”taming” process that Christianity underwent. Wouldn’t most Muslims see the differences between the freedom of Western nations and the tyranny of Islamic nations? I had written: ”Fundamentally, there is no such thing as a ‘moderate’ Muslim or a ‘civilized’ Islam, not when the core beliefs of the Koran and commands of the Hadith sanction the murder and enslavement of non-Muslims in an on-going jihad that will end only with the establishment of a global caliphate.”
Förnuftets kalla och oresonliga röst 