Now Yeager, we all know that Christianity is
just as bad as Islam, need I remind you that almost 1000 years ago the Pope responded to the Byzantine emperor's call for help in repulsing the Turkish invaders with a contra-biblical call for a Crusade to recapture Palestine? Additionally, I understand that the President of the Women in the Church group of an undisclosed Southern Baptist Church has warned the Queen that if she tries to knight Richard Dawkins they will not invite her to tea for "a spell" and may not talk to her if they accidentally make eye contact in the local supermarket . Some members of the group have criticized the stance, saying "there's no need to be like that" and "this would
never have happened when Laney was president."
Seriously though, now and for the for the foreseeable future we live in the age of Jihad, and as the Spanish found out the hard way, giving in to the demands of Islamic militants does not actually cause them to stop blowing you up. My hope is that we will come to our senses and end the practice of seriously limiting the freedom of speech and worship of Westerners in an attempt to pacify Islamists. If riots in Islamabad and death threats from the
ummah and its leaders become the reason we do or don't knight individuals, do or don't publish cartoons, and so on, then we will already have lost our liberty. What's next, should we execute apostate Muslims like Rushdie ourselves lest Islamists become offended at our allowing him to continue to live contrary to Sharia law? It's time we decided that tantrums, threats, and even attacks on their part are not going to cause us to conform to their ideology.
- SEAGOON
