The Laughing Wolf

I like the opinion given by Tarek Fatah in the Globe and Mail (Canada):

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"This posturing by Arab governments and Islamist movements is not in the tradition of Islam. These zealots should ask the question: What would Prophet Mohammed have done when faced with this insult?

He would, I suggest, have said a prayer for the cartoonist and “turned away from the ignorant,” as Allah commanded him to do in the Koran."

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So what we need now are bumper stickers, pins, and such with the letters W.W.M.D.? -- What Would Mohammed Do?

I would also paraphrase Rushdie in comments he made to moderate Islam: Why are you not screaming? Silence is support, and I fear what will happen when some new and even more massive attack comes -- and the backlash begins. The fanatics are making it an Islam versus everyone else, and if the moderates do NOT begin to scream and take back all that is claimed for them...

Another nice quote I just found in an article on the Scotsman web site:

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Speaking at a rally in southern Lebanon, Sheikh Abu Sharif, a spokesman for the militant Osbet al-Ansar group, said: "We will not be satisfied with protests. The solution is the slaughter of those who harmed Islam and the Prophet."

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A good place to start would be with those who have bent Islam to their own violent ends...

EW

I am impressed with your courage, Laughing Wolf. I wish I was as brave as you. Don't forget, it's not just the religious nuts from the Middle East you're provoking here, but the American government as well... Pretty powerful coalition.

Great post...Freedom, Liberty and Determination is the key... :)

Well said.

English Werewolf brought up a very good point on this one...and one that I'd been thinking about since this whole thing started nearly 5 months after the initial slight...

I'd been wondering, as a less than practicing Christian, if Islam had something in the big green book about "turning the other cheek." EW's research unearthed the "turn away from the ignorant" which while it would appear to be enough to help avoid unneccesary violence, doesn't quite embrace what I'd expect.

Rather than just turning away from the ignorant...how about trying to teach the ignorant? Somehome firebombing embassies and threatening cartoonists just doesn't seem to be the way to educate...

See you on the high ground...and remember, Buy Danish!

MajorDad1984

Waaahhhh! Pay attention to me! I don't know what I am talking about, but damn it it is what I feel that matters, not facts. Look at me, I am so brave hiding behind multiple fake e-mails and names, claiming the names of better men to show my lacks. Waaaaaahhhhh!

Mommy, Mommy, why are they pointing and laughing at me? I am being so big and brave, speaking truth to power, and showing just what little I am. Why won't they take me seriously? Just because I seem to have a problem separating truth from fantasy, my story changes on a regular basis, and I can't name a single person at NASA who knows me, and ooops, I am so brave that I never will post under my own name...