I was at Pam’s SION conference yesterday afternoon. She asked the audience how many people originally thought the Arab Spring would “work.” No one raised their hand.
Pam Geller has got to be one of the most charismatic women I have ever met!
The supposed ‘hurt feelings’ of the Islamic militants were no more inflamed by this amateur and clumsy movie than they were by the supposed depictions of Mohammed Ali that were run in a Danish paper several years back. Yet they killed no embassy officials then (though they did issue a fatwah against the cartoonist), so why the selective outrage NOW?
Hint: it had something to do with 9/11, which apparently is of great significance to Islamic jihadists.
To be Islamic is to never forget a slight, ever.
You just cannot be nice to porcupines. Or cobras. Or scorpions.
Easier to make a pet out of a Tasmanian devil. Or a wolverine infected with rabies.
Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place. [Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long]