Daily Ramblings:
Chiming In ...05/18/2005
02:49:52 pm
It's Right Wing Bob echo
syndrome again, as some brave columnists begin to
offer the take on the Great Toilet Riots of 2005 that
was seen in this space 3
days ago. Notable is Robert Spencer:
There is no
excusing Newsweek’s irresponsibility in
this. But this is not really a story about media
bias or carelessness at all. There is a much
larger story that is getting hardly any attention
at all. The gorilla in the living room that no
one wants to notice, is that flushing a
Qur’an down the toilet should not be grounds
to commit murder.
He even offers his own version of a
Roman Catholic parallel:
When in April
EBay offered a consecrated host for sale, imagine
if Catholics had rioted and seventeen people were
killed.
The media would have been full of stories about
the dark side of the “Christian Right.”
There's one more thing I'd like to
add, in terms of comparing how the mainstream media
treats Islam, versus how it treats religions that don't
prescribe death as the punishment for a long laundry
list of infractions. That is: how many times did you
hear and see Cardinal Josef Ratzinger described as a
"hard-liner," both before and after he was
named Pope?
Now, how many times have you heard
the term "hard-liner" used to describe
Islamic clerics (for example the ones all across the
world who reacted to the alleged Koranic damage by
inciting violence with their furious rhetoric,
instead of using their positions to cool the
self-destructive passions of their faithful)?
I guess that strongly advocating
for the protection of life, from conception to
natural death, makes you a hard-liner. Calling for a
jihad against the United States Of America because
some individuals allegedly damaged one of millions of
Korans currently in print makes you ... what?
Devout, I guess.
Addendum 05/18/2005
09:35:17 pm:
And Ann says it with all of her usual charm and good humor.
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