Fake, bogus, selective Muslim outrage over cartoons.

Foreign journalists, diplomats and aid workers began leaving Gaza as gunmen there threatened to kidnap citizens of France, Norway, Denmark and Germany unless those governments apologize for the cartoon [of the Prophet].

Gunmen in the West Bank city of Nablus entered four hotels to search for foreigners to abduct and warned their owners not to host guests from several European countries. Gunmen said they were also searching apartments in Nablus for Europeans.^[1]

Ok. We give up. What IS the logic of kidnapping people for the sins of others?

Hmmm. We think we see a pattern here . . . .

Jihadi problem: unhappiness over X? Solution: kidnap civilians with no connection to the problem and hold hostage or kill.

According the AP, Afghan President Hamid Karzai called publication of the cartoon an "insult ... to more than 1 billion Muslims." We don't recall that he or any other Muslims screaming for blood when the Palestinian Authority gunmen occupied the Church of the Nativity in Jerusalem and relieved themselves inside the church and used pages of the Bible to wipe themselves (as well as helped themselves to the priests' beer, wine, and Johnnie Walker scotch).^[2]

And did we miss the expressions of horror and outrage when the alcohol-swilling, whoring, Muslim religious zealots slaughtered upward of 3,000 people in the Twin Towers? No, because that was manifestly just TERRIFIC to millions in the Islamic world.

Our sympathy for their present fake cries of "outrage" is precisely zero.

Are Muslims that observant of their own religion? If they are all that faithful, then we must have been misinformed about the Saudi princes who fly to Europe so they can drink and screw like it's Mardi Gras.

Out of all the slaughter and useless destruction perpetrated by Muslims in the last 30 years, was just NONE of it conduct that contravened Islamic principles in some way? Where was the worldwide Muslim outrage at the despicable (presumably) unislamic conduct of Muslims? Was the murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes completely in conformance with Islam? How about the murder of Robert Stethem? The murder of Mr. Klinghoffer on the Achille Lauro? The murder of Robert Berg? The murder of President Sadat? All ok? All these murders kosher?

Ok. Here's the actual scenario repeated 1,000,000,000 times this evening throughout the Muslim world:

Abdul Zarqawi, address #65 Rue des Martyres, Bizerte, Tunisia, arrived home and asked his wife if she'd heard about the cartoons in Denmark depicting the Prophet.

"That makes me furious," she told him.

"Me, too," he replied. "What's for dinner?"

Here's a story to illustrate the real crux of the problem:

A guy goes to his neighbor to borrow his axe.

"I can't lend it to you," says the neighbor, "I'm making soup."

"What does making soup have to do with not lending me your axe?" asks the guy.

"When you don't want to lend someone your axe," the neighbor replies, "any excuse will do."

Muslims don't need a pretext to go into a nut roll over something that the infidels are doing. Everything is an excuse to do so.

The jihadis especially don't need an excuse to act like they're terminally torqued about something. They'll "take offense" at a BLT sandwich in Omaha if it suits their purposes.

It's all an act designed to make the infidels grovel and say they're sorry.

No one should be sorry. Muslim crazies need to get jobs as programmers, accountants and mechanics and all Muslims need to accept the fact that their religion is a large part of why they live in third world villes that give new meaning to the term "wild west."

Notes
^[1] "Outrage Spreads Over Muhammad Caricature." By Ibrahim Barzak, AP, 2/2/06.
^[2] "The Beleaguered Christians of the Palestinian-Controlled Areas." By David Raab, Jerusalem Letter/Viewpoints No. 490, 1-15 January 2003.