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The Politicker notes that angry Muslims need not have fixed on the cartoons from a regional Danish newspaper, our own New York Post occasionally runs comics to outrage any mullah:

Subject: Muslims are under attack

The Western Media is uniformly focusing the democratic right to speak, write or draw an opinion. However, no one is addressing the issue of racism, and religious bigotry that these hideous cartoons convey. Would similar cartoons about Jews or Blacks be published in the West?

Today, in the West, we have open season on Muslims.
Islamic cultural history is deemed backwards, vengeful and violent. A foreign western army is occupying Iraq. Through out the world Muslim persons and countries are under siege. It is only human that the reaction is such by the besieged.
-TS

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