Muslims, cartoons, killings

Moslem cartoons and other Christian cheeks

By Anthony Oluwatoyin
Wednesday, February 8, 2006

You know there's a failure to communicate when notorious Vancouver Sheik Younus Kathrada, who reportedly called Jews "brothers of the monkeys and the swine," becomes a central figure in left-lib media reports calling for calm in the ongoing Moslem cartoon controversy.

The cartoons, first printed in Danish newspapers, feature most controversially, Moslem founding Prophet Mohammed complete with time bomb in turban, warning suicide bombers that he is fresh out of virgins.

Kathrada's makeover from hatemonger to emissary of peace exposes rather than hides the ugly distance between Western traditions and the savage stranglehold of terror in the Moslem world. When Kathrada says there should be no violence in response to what Moslems consider a capital crime against their prophet, one could choke on one's own giggle behind the hand.

Beheadings on tape have been justified (oh, I mean "explained") in terms of attacks on Moslem terrorists, invasion of Moslem nations, mounting beauty pageants, and everything less than the cartoon slur of Mohammed, the very mention of whose name Moslems accompany with the benediction, "Peace be upon Him."

Yet we are to believe that there is now a call to embrace. The Trojans and their horse couldn't have perpetrated a finer fraud.

The streets as always have been less inclined to craft such correctness. From Damascus to Beirut, all across Europe, protest has respected only the exact limits of powers that faced it face-to-face. Embassies have been torched with the same ease with which boycotts were urged.

A defense of the actual cartoons would be about as modest a proposal as eating eight-day old babies every other day of the week. CNN would not even show the cartoons -- except in pixilated form.

It matters not what excuses (oh, silly me again, I mean "explanations") liberal apologists proffer, the natives are restless and refuse to be contained. Perhaps the Danish, in a vandal-making bout of self-deluded Scandinavian neutrality, truly believed that Moslems can be liberalized into being able to take a joke!

The excessive Euro-unionist mentality cannot abide those who cannot be stretched or squashed to fit uncontested truth. They would themselves bend over backward to make the accommodation. The Palestinian news agency reported that Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller called Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to apologize for the insult to Moslems.

There have been more apologies for naive cartoons than ever there were for Nazi complicity. We are given updated talking points with better regularity than Wall Street quarterly reports. Last July, the CBC expressed angst even about calling suicide bombers terrorists with reference to the London bombings.

We must not call Muslims Moslem, which latter word smacks of the Arabic for "oppressor." Now there's a non-misnomer! (As you can tell, I got my memo like Cher got her Oscar ceremony instructions on how to dress like a serious actress.)

Of course, cartoons of Christians, especially of Roman Catholic Mariolatry (excessive devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God) are not in the same league. And they come as much from infidel-bashing followers of Mohammed as they do from Protestants and other fellow Christians.

Yet from the barbaric murders of such critics of Islam as Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and fellow Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn in the heartland of Euro-tolerance to the corpse-ridden protest in Moslem-dominated Northern Nigeria of the 2002 Miss World beauty pageant, Moslems acclaim again and again that violence is their answer to any and all disagreement.

Just what is it about so unambiguous a view of dialogue that Westerners find so ambiguous? No Christian ever turned the other cheek like latter-day liberals. The irony is that Moslems perhaps consider that the worst cheek of all.

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