One of the things worth mentioning is that by many accounts the relatively harmless Danish cartoons are not what really caused the riots.One of the things worth mentioning is that by many accounts the relatively harmless Danish cartoons are not what really caused the riots...the reaction ... had more to do with a small group of fanatics who tried to fan the flames by taking "the cartoons" abroad along with extra, blatantly more offensive cartoons, as well as made up quotes about how all the Danes thought Muslims were pigs, and the like.
Oh yes, absolutely. I've got no time for the Islamic fundamentalists. My point is that they are an easy target - they aren't "us", they are far away, and they are weak. And meanwhile, we don't spend much time at all talking about what we might to do stop "our" side from committing mass murder.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_serpent
Re: Cartoons
Date: 2006-02-22 02:07 am (UTC)Oh yes, absolutely. I've got no time for the Islamic fundamentalists. My point is that they are an easy target - they aren't "us", they are far away, and they are weak. And meanwhile, we don't spend much time at all talking about what we might to do stop "our" side from committing mass murder.