If you had to live under the rules of Sharia as a dhimmi you’d call it Apartheid, and you’d be right. Take a deep breath here, Wince, and consider the historical non-parallel. Change has already been a long time not coming for the Muslim world, and it looks to be getting worse for non-Muslims real soon now.

And if it doesn’t come at all?

What if we change before the Muslims do? We wouldn’t really even need to accept the authority of Sharia, just of the UN… something many of our own liberal political leaders have actually demanded of us.

The rampant bigotry among Muslims even leads to uppity Christians being lynched.

In this light, Muslims who justify their bigotry and their behavior by referring to the Koran are no different than white Christians who abused the Bible in the same way.

So – all those Muslims who responded to the Pope with violent protests? Miserable bigots, the lot of them. Do you fight bigotry by moderating your criticism of it?

There were plenty of white Americans who did little but quietly say to their kids, “We don’t act like that.” There were plenty of white American leaders who did nothing effective to fight bigotry for decades after the Civil War.

Take a deep breath here and consider this historical parallel. Change could be a long time coming.

Yours,
Wince

[i]magine it was Jews attacking churches, and imagine the headlines, the scornful leads, the angry editorials. But since it’s only Muslims attacking, the media is blaming—wait for it—not the Muslims for reacting violently to the Pope’s speech, but the Pope, for making the speech in the first place.

You don’t have to imagine at all. A few years ago PA murderers armed with select-fire rifles invaded Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, took the monks and tourists hostage, desecrated the church, and used the church as a base for sniper attacks. The IDF put the church under seige in order to free the hostages; eventually the terrorists surrendered to an international body (which released them after a brief interval, in defiance of their deal with Israel, but that’s another matter.)

Shortly after the seige began, Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH) remarked that he was very troubled by the religious implications of Jews initiating a seige of the church. Oddly enough, as far as I know he never expressed any qualms about the religious implication of armed Muslim terrorists invading it and taking hostages, and using it as a base to shoot at Israelis.

The Italian paper LaStampa went even further, of course, running a cartoon showing Israeli tanks menacing baby whatsisname, who was shown lamenting “Don’t tell me they are planning to kill me again?”

I forget, what’s the polite word for Christ killer? Oh, yeah, I remember now it’s Zionist.