Culture Wars

While I can empathize with the outrage Muslims feel at seeing their prophet depicted in these cartoons – as a Christian I would feel the same about a similar depiction of Jesus – it is precisely the power of liberal democracy that no one theology or ideology is held in some special esteem or consideration. If this were not so, it would be unreasonable and hypocritical for Muslims to expect tolerance and acceptance in predominately Christian Europe or America. Everyday in Muslim countries heinous depictions of Jews and Christians are disseminated through their mass media. Every Friday imams in mosques all over the Muslim world spew their hate filled, vitriolic, theocratic rhetoric with impunity. Before the Muslim world asks that the Christian west remove the mote from their eye, they should remove the log from their own. Freedom in the West unlike “freedom” in Muslims countries, means freedom for all, including those one may disagree with and those whose beliefs and practices one might find offensive.