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Wulf of Atlas Blogged makes an excellent point when pointing to the fact that the cartoons were a reaction for a situation and not the starting event:

“yllands-Posten’s publication of the cartoons is repeatedly called offensive. It should instead be seen as defensive. It would be appropriate to debate whether such defensiveness was warranted, but it must first be recognized as a defensive posture.”

As I discussed briefly in earlier post ones of Europe’s problems is it weakness standing against very powerful attack of by the extreme Islam. I’m not claiming that all of the Muslims living in Europe aiming to destroy Europe from inside. However it seems the accepting the “rules of the game” of the hosting country doesn’t apply to big groups of Muslim immigrants.

The murder of Van Gogh in Holland was a previous reaction of fundamentalists to unkindly remark about them and their culture. However since it was played down then we are facing a bigger crisis now. What will be the result of current appeasement , including by the American State Department , the near future will tell. However the fact is that the famous cartoons were a reaction for the fact that people are afraid to draw pictures for children book in 21^st century Europe!

“Islamic extremists in Western Europe try to hold all others hostage with the threat of violence - moderate Muslims and non-Muslims alike; Jews, Christians, secularists, everybody. The publication of the cartoons in question did not represent inflammation for the sake of inflammation, nor even inflammation for the sake of information or entertainment (which is what we experience so frequently in the American media). It represented inflammation of extremist interlopers for the sake of drawing a line and saying, We believe in this. Battle lines have been drawn carefully, with Freedom of the Press on one side, and Religious Sensitivities on the other. This battle could not have been picked with the Catholics, or Lutherans, or Buddhists, or Wiccans. Neither are their adherents prepared to be incited by cartoons, nor is the European public prepared to be incited by cartoons about them. This whole affair has been a carefully placed spark in long-filling powder keg.”