Who in the Muslim world, who in Pakistan, is ready to take to the streets to protest the mass murders of real people, not cartoon characters, right next door in Mumbai?
Tom Friedman asks in his New York Times column today
On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. When Pakistanis and other Muslims are willing to take to the streets, even suffer death, to protest an insulting cartoon published in Denmark, is it fair to ask: Who in the Muslim world, who in Pakistan, is ready to take to the streets to protest the mass murders of real people, not cartoon characters, right next door in Mumbai?
After all, if 10 young Indians from a splinter wing of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party traveled by boat to Pakistan, shot up two hotels in Karachi and the central train station, killed at least 173 people, and then, for good measure, murdered the imam and his wife at a Saudi-financed mosque while they were cradling their 2-year-old son — purely because they were Sunni Muslims — where would we be today? The entire Muslim world would be aflame and in the streets.
So what can we expect from Pakistan and the wider Muslim world after Mumbai?
Ed has a good review of the article.
December 3, 2008 - 06:10 PM on December 3rd, 2008
I’ve added a link and quote for your post to Jeremiah Films’ h8te Watch – discerning tolerance vs intolerance
December 3, 2008 - 06:44 PM on December 3rd, 2008
Thanks Wayne
December 3, 2008 - 07:06 PM on December 3rd, 2008
it will happen here soon.
December 4, 2008 - 05:40 AM on December 4th, 2008
I agree Fred. As soon as Nobama is officially in office, completely eliminates all the safeguards Bush has used to keep us safe since 9/11, and officially declares the WOT over, another attack will only be a matter of time. My concern is that it will be a dirty bomb or biological.
The loony left just doesn’t realize that being “nice” to these people is not the solution.
December 4, 2008 - 10:57 PM on December 4th, 2008
BonBon is right sad to say and when it happen’s obama will just be in power for life, its not a joke its your life and your world under the control of some real evil rats, may God help you all.