First cartoons, then women’s rights — who knew?
Well, we all knew, didn’t we, unless we were the sensitive souls of CNN and the NYT and the rest of the MSM. Here’s what sensitivity buys from those who despise weakness and Western ways (via the Independent):
A Muslim pop singer has been forced to hire bodyguards to protect her during a visit to Britain next month after she received a string of death threats from religious extremists. US-based Deeyah is due in London next month to promote a new single and video, released tomorrow. But the track “What Will It Be?” has already outraged hardline Islamists here as it promotes women’s rights….”I have been on the verge of a breakdown. Middle-aged men have spat at me in the street and I have had people phone me and tell me they were going to cut me up into pieces. I became this figure of hate simply because of what I do and wear.”
As Ace put it: “Why, you’d almost imagine they intend to subjugate us to their primative fundamentalist religion through violence or something.”
UPDATE
Unlike the NYT and CNN, the Boston Phoenix has the courage at least to admit its own lack of courage (via Jeff Jacoby) in not publishing the cartoons:
”Our primary reason,” the editors confessed, is ”fear of retaliation from . . . bloodthirsty Islamists who seek to impose their will on those who do not believe as they do . . . Simply stated, we are being terrorized, and . . . could not in good conscience place the men and women who work at the Phoenix and its related companies in physical jeopardy. As we feel forced, literally, to bend to maniacal pressure, this may be the darkest moment in our 40-year-publishing history.”
In the immortal words of Patrick Henry: “Give me liberty or, well, give me whatever you see fit, just please leave me alone and don’t hurt me, Mr. Sheikh or imam or exalted thug.”