Cartoon Respect

We have been learning some not so unexpected information about about the world, the US media, and the left in general in the past few days. First, if people believe that they will somehow just "make nice" with Muslim fundamentalists, hopefully they are having some second thoughts. Are people who like to pride themselves on saying and showing any obscenity that could ever be imagined suddenly going to "show respect" to the extent that very mild cartoons will be off limits? To follow the favorite conjecture of the MSM on the Bush monitoring of calls to terrorists, "what is next"? What is next indeed? Women in burkas? Gays beheaded? One can only imagine what the "highly respected" Muslims might have in mind to stop burning and threatening if it works so well. We see that violence goes a long way in producing "respect" (I think it is better called "fear") for many of normally most vocal liberals.

The vaunted courage of the US media relative to "freedom of the press"? Uh, that seems to only apply to beating up on Christians, who actually DO turn the other cheek to all sort of abominations from crosses in urine to Christ depicted as a bi-sexual, to unspeakable and complete lack of respect heaped on their Lord at every opportunity, often at taxpayer expense. Were Christians the same as Muslims, we wouldn't be calling it "chilling" when they threaten to boycott watching some show or buying some product. Where is that word "chilling" by the way? Somehow as all the MSM runs scared of showing a cartoon of a guy with a turban with a bomb depicted in it, we see a completely different attitude.

It seems that we can see pretty clearly now what is bluster and fakery and what is real fear. We have seen lefties standing up boldly to the evils of Bush, Ashcroft, Cheney, and all the other "scary, chilling, threatening" aspects of the Patriot Act, survielance and "looking at your library card". They are SO bold, yet when the threat is violence from "the Arab street", maybe even in this country, they are suddenly nowhere to be found. Which threat is real, and which threat is made up for the vast population of US MSM believing sheep? It seems pretty clear at this point.

Yes, our freedom loving left is willing to show "respect and caution" in the matter of completely chaste cartoons when it comes to Muslims with flamable materials, signs, and probably bombs. Somehow their attitude to Christians is just a little different. The threat of violence really does work well, will they still be showing "respect" when the burkas come out?