More Violence Worldwide
When the morning started, I was wondering: Why Attack Christians in Nigeria? Several hours later, the violence has spread to Indonesia, Turkey and Pakistan.
Hundreds of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad tried to storm the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, smashing the windows of a guard post but failing to push through the gates. Several people were injured.
That could have been real ugly, real quick. Anyone remember when something similar happened in Iran, back in the Jimmy Carter era?
In Turkey, tens of thousands gathered in Istanbul chanting slogans against Denmark, Israel and the United States.
Protests over the cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September and have been republished in other European publications and elsewhere, have swept across the Muslim world, growing into mass outlets for rage against the West in general, and Israel and the United States in particular.
Ah. At least we know this isn't all anti-cartoon rage. Some of it is just good ol' hate-the-Jews-standard-issue-protesting.
Christians also have become targets. Pakistani Muslims protesting in the southern city of Sukkur ransacked and burned a church Sunday after hearing accusations that a Christian man had burned pages of the Quran, Islam's holy book.
Burn down a church on "accusations"?
In Jakarta, about 400 people marched to the heavily fortified U.S. mission in the center of the city, behind a banner reading "We are ready to attack the enemies of the Prophet."
It strikes me as interesting that the liberal Western world really has no idea of the Muslim power they are facing. Unless something dramatically and rapidly changes, the West will be brought into complete submission within the next ten to fifteen years (yes, Americans, you too). There are too many weak people in positions of authority to effectively deter the hatred, and too many foolish people to understand that the threat is real an imminent.
Tags: Islam , Muhammed Cartoon , Christianity , United States , Europe
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