Terrorist sissies, Part II

File this one under hypocrisy even the Bush folks would scoff at:

A Danish paper printed political cartoons featured Muhammed. They were satirical, with his head dress shaped like a bomb and another in which he remarked that paradise was running out of virgins for all the martyrs.

This has irked most of the Middle East. It has also revealed that many of the countries are decades, if not centuries, away from understanding democracy. Many people are boycotting Danish products, and even burning Danish flags (seriously, is there some kind of Ikea for flags in the Middle East? I wouldn't even know where to find a Danish flag to burn).

Apparently, making a graven image of Muhammed is a sin.

Of course, these people see no irony in burning a flag while condeming someone else for printing a cartoon deemed offensive to them. Nevermind that Arab papers print demeaning things about the United States and Israel every day.

Many other papers in Europe have reprinted the cartoon as an exercise in free speech. The hard lesson that the Arab world has to learn here is that the West values freedom of expression and thought over dogmatic thinking... it's why our most notable flight was to the moon, and Al-Qaeda's was into three buildings and a field.

So suck it up and deal... and instead of worrying about what's going on in Denmark, how about asking your rulers where those billions of dollars worth of oil profits are going? You could buy a lot of flags with that money...