The Real Threat Is Islam
Protest in London against the Danish cartoons.
How many corpses will it take before our rulers
recognize the obvious?
Once again, Islam has struck back at the infidel West. Gunmen dressed in black hoods entered the office
building of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and murdered most of its staff. They said they were “avenging the prophet” by punishing the people who
had drawn mocking cartoons of Mohammed.
Francois Hollande, Barack Obama, David Cameron, Angela Merkel, Ban Ki-moon, Vladimir Putin, and even the Queen of England have told us how awful this is. They are indignant about this “attack on free speech” and what they call an “assault on democracy,” but not one of them dares say what the real problem is: Islam. Not one dares point out that Islam is incompatible with the West, and that these murders are just one more proof that Muslims should be kept out.
This is hardly the first time Islam has enforced its notions of blasphemy against non-believers. Author Salmon Rushdie hid for years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took a dislike to his depiction of Mohammed in The Satanic Verses in 1989, and issued a fatwa ordering him killed. Mr. Rushdie survived, but his Japanese translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, was stabbed to death; no culprit was ever found.
In 2004, a Muslim killed Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh because he had shown verses of the Koran written on the bodies of women in his short film, Submission: Part 1.
The next year, a Danish newspaper published a series of cartoons that lampooned Mohammed. The editor, Flemming Rose, commissioned the cartoons when he learned that a children’s biography of Mohammed had been published without pictures because Danish illustrators were afraid to depict the prophet. There were riots and demonstrations across the Muslim world.
One of the Danish cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard, had so many death threats that police put him on round-the-clock surveillance, fortified his house, and built a safe room in it. A Somali Muslim broke into his house but failed to kill Mr. Westergaard only because the attacker could not break into the safe room. ...
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