I'll disagree

Hatem Bazian remains a batshit insane child.

The European interpretation of the cartoons as satirical are an example of the lack of sensitivity many Westerners have toward the Muslim community, Bazian said.

While rights to free speech protect insults and hate speech in the West, insults are not protected in Islamic law, making the cartoons a serious offense, he said.

That's why you never see insulting cartoons in Islamic publications. They are always respectful of others, especially Jews.

Europeans also wrongly believe that any time a Muslim acts, they lack the ability to be rational and are just radical Islamists, he said.

All Europeans? Any time a European acts, they lack the ability to be fair to Muslims. Sounds reasonable. (I'll spare the noun-pronoun agreement argument)

In fairness, either of those could be the fault of the writer. This one, however, is not.

While the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful, the European community's condemnation of the Muslims' reactions is hypocritical, he said.

"If it were a rabbi with a bomb on his head, every government in Europe would condemn the newspaper, but the fact that it was Muslim, it was not seen as wrong," Bazian said. "It is like Europe is saying 'Do as we say, not as we do.'"

Is he drawing comparisons? Is he seriously comparing the response of Muslims to insulting cartoons to the way other folks respond to insulting cartoons? It's not a hypothetical. We can see those responses every day, and they rarely involve major protests demanding murder, or million dollar bounties. "It is like Europe is saying 'Do as we do, not as Bazian says we do.'"

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 2/17/2006 03:43:00 PM #
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Beetle,

In reference to the rabbi comment, I don't think you're accurately stating the point Bazian was trying to make. Granted, the Daily Cal did not place that quote into context. He was not comparing diplomatic condemnations of anti-Semitic cartoons with violence and boycotts. He was comparing diplomatic condemnations of anti-Semitic cartoons with the lack of diplomatic condemnations of anti-Islamic cartoons between September and December.

Bazian did not transition directly from "the European community's condemnation of the Muslims' reaction is hypocritical," to the rabbi reference.

That came when he was explaining the context in which the Muslim reaction escalated. You can certainly disagree with his interpretation of which parties are most to blame for this escalation (which he repeatedly agreed is out of hand), but his message was not "Jews get mad and have their governments condemn stuff that they don't like, therefore, we have the right to get mad and fuck shit up too."

# posted by  Anonymous : 3:49 PM, February 19, 2006

 

Did he give any examples of diplomatic condemnations against anti-semitic cartoons?

# posted by  Beetle Aurora Drake : 3:59 PM, February 19, 2006

 

I don't think he did. He used the hypothetical rabbi example.

# posted by  Anonymous : 4:55 PM, February 19, 2006

 

Then I stand by my claim that he's full of shit when he says that comment.

# posted by  Beetle Aurora Drake : 4:56 PM, February 19, 2006

 

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