Mr. Specter, Mr. Leahy and the entire gaggle apparently could care less!
Worth repeating. It is also wortth noting that this irrational fear is fostered by the MSM and leftists.
Maybe if us Christian started riotin' we could get some respect 'round here.
the infowarrior
"If only Muslims had a better public relations strategist they might have avoided this brouhaha."
180 degrees wrong. This is something the radicals want. What better than to whip up the religious masses, not keep them calm. Any wonder that Syria and Iran are busy playing this up? I'm sure they will get many "good" muslims willing to fight the infidels out of this.
Sorry, I think you have it backwards Steve!
That varies from leftists how?
Every liberty the west enjoys is the product of Christianity.
It was Baptists in particular who fought for and achieved the establishment of the Bill of Rights.
It was Christians who fought and died to end slavery.
It was Scottish bible-thumping Presbyterians and Calvinists who established the concept of government by the people and for the people.
And such liberties are ensured only when the government acknowledges that such liberties "are a gift of God" and not some privelege granted by men.
First of all I have a very low opinion of Islam as a religion. I do have have sympathy for those Muslims who are trying to live as ethical lives as they can despite being a part of a relgion that DOES advocate total supremacy in whatever society they are a part of, that jihad is an outward struggle against the infidel as well as an inward struggle to lead "purer" lives, and is to it's core set up to be a theocracy. I doubt the ability of the US in it's desire to bring democracy to Muslim countries in the long run. It's great that we got rid of Saddam, it's great that the Iraqi people have voted (which they couldn't under the Baath), and it's wonderful that the kind of torture and oppression that happened under Sddam has ceased and people are freer to speak their minds. Islam is incompatible with western democracy. Don't forget that all the main players that we entertained to push forward a post-Saddam Iraq have been exiles Chalabi and others---(Iraqi National Congress types). They have been westernized (thus capable of acting democratically). The great bulk of Iraqis, both Sunni and Shia are tribal and more or less rather devoted to Islam-- maybe not quite Wahabists or Khomeiniites, but lets say, that stuff has a murky soft spot in their hearts. For thousands to set upon & torch embassies just because the picture of the Prophet Mohammed appeared in Euro newspapers (grant it, it wasn't complimentary) can't just be dismised with the flick of the wrist "Oh it's just Wahabi instigators riling the masses up). The best thing we could have done in Iraq was set up Ayad Allawi and have Baathism lite (possibly a good bit better than that). It would have put in a reasonably pro-western leader in Iraq, neutralized the threat of WMD's against the US and Israel, and for the most part ended the outrages committed by Saddam. By setting up Allawi, Iraq wouldn't have been a democracy in the western sense, but America would have secured her won backside and the chaos the Iraq is today would have been minimized. Now a good hypothetical question would be: What kind of deal would Allawi made with the Kurds and Shia?