When "avant-garde" created artwork using piss covered Christian icons, the universal response was that "it should jolt Christians into a new wave of enlightenment. Now artists draw pictures of Mohammed and there is actually a debate in the media as to whether or not its right to provoke Muslims. The doublethink boggles the mind.
It's atrocious and pathetic and shows a complete lack of principle.
I don't know when Islam became the pet faith for progressives to defend but it smacks of not knowing a damn thing about the world. Individually Muslims are just like anybody else but the countries where Islam is the dominant culture range from kind of miserable to outright dangerous. What does one say when they hear "I didn't give my wife permission to leave the house" is enough to nullify testimony in a Malaysian Sharia court? Or they learn that eating in front of Muslims during the fasting month is a prison sentence in Brunei.
I find it very difficult to take people seriously who claim that they are for women's rights in all kinds of minor things, and then completely ignore the systematic abuse, up to and including murder, torture and rape of women by a religious establishment that literally runs countries in a theocracy. The left certainly doesn't want a Christian theocracy in any Western countries, but will tolerate a religion that institutionally demands intolerably abusive conduct and place it above criticism.
I don't believe that things that are bad when they're done in the name of Christianity suddenly become good or immunized by being done in the name of a different nonexistent sky daddy (*tips fedora*).
I'll also note that the U.S. has nowhere near the problem that some European countries increasingly have with militant Islam, largely because they have been completely appeasing of utterly vile behavior from the worst of the worst. There, Muslims would have rioted in the face of similar provocation. Here, only two people who were apparently already absolutely insane showed up to cause violence. Every single other Muslim in the region ignored the provocation. The two who didn't are dead.
And there weren't even militant counter-demonstrations. They saw it for the shit show it was and stayed away.
Now, we have to put up with this kind of bullshit from our own citizens, to some extent, but we should never allow this Geert Wilders fuck in the country again.
We have no obligation to allow in foreigners who show up and deliberately intend to get Americans killed for their own political agenda.
That's exactly what Geller and Wilders wanted, to provoke an attack so they could then exploit it.
