Useful idiots is a good term, but it almost seems too passive. At some point it is almost too much of a free pass to say that we are talking merely about a mindset. Specific people in charge of these organizations are making affirmative and very peculiar choices about the emphasis they give to such coverage, and I have trouble believing they do not understand the implications of their choices.

I thought I came up with a good response.

I even provided the media with a good excuse for not printing the comics.

None of this would have happened if Allah had got his new 10 Commandments here earlier.

I guess he didn't use FedEx.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

This is really no different than when the MSM stopped running video of the Twin Towers coming down because they didn't want to fuel a jingoistic response from America or add to the already self righteous anger that was there.

The Inferno of Dante Alighieri has, since the year 1300, described, and, in illustrated versions, depicted Mohammed in Hell being torn apart by demons as a false prophet. Should all illustrated versions of The Inferno be banned as provocative of Islam? If so, why hasn't this been done in the past seven hundred and six years?

Ok, here is an iron to throw in the fire about this issue. Strategypage is reporting that it is looking like Iran and Syria were the ones behind the massive protests that ended with burning embassies in Tehran, Damascus, and Beirut. If you are spotting a trend, so am I.

If this is indeed the case, the Iranians in particular have demonstrated a schrewd talent to utterly shame us in their grasp of what you nailed a few months ago in the "Arm of Decision." They are using our media to cultivate their radicals, scare the West into believing the rage these "average" Muslims have, while at the same time working our leftist population into a frenzy of self-loathing, causing them to run for cover after committing the gravist of sins: offending a minority.

The Mullahs know that they don't have anything that can stand up to the 4th Infantry Division, so they're out there beating us the way they have been for the past 25 years, by proxy through information and the media.

I think we've been had.

Aaron's been spamming that "Cartoons are crap" post pretty generously...

Yeah, they were really sensitive about running and re-running the Rodney King videos too.
Why, I remember a virtual news blackout over that.

Sorry Rich, is that bad?

Useful idiots is a good term, but it almost seems too passive.

TigerHawk has just come right out and nailed it: "The MSM are dhimmis."

As I understand it, there are three categories of relations between Muslims and infidels.

1. War: dar al-harb: inhabitants of the lands of war (dar al-harb) are infidels to be combated because they oppose the establishment of Islamic law in their countries. As enemies of Allah they have no rights: they themselves and their property become licit (mubah) for all Muslims. As the opportunity arises they can be taken as slaves, kidnapped for ransom, robbed or killed.

2. Truce: A truce is always temporary. It is entered into only when the Muslims aren’t strong enough to overcome the infidel adversary.

3. Peace: dhimmitude: the submission-protection condition of infidels obtained by surrendering their territory to the Islamic authority. Submission because infidels submit in their own country to the Islamic law that expropriates them, and protection because the same law protects them from jihad and guarantees their rights.

So there you have it. We can have peace with the Muslims, but only on their terms. Dhimmitude (has a nice ring, don’t you think?).

Note to all women: go get measured for your new burka.

Or, this alternative: Fight the bastards until there is no fight left in them. And forget everything you ever knew about mercy.

(I cribbed most of this from Bat Ye'or.)

http://www.dhimmitude.org/

Dear Green.

An explanation I can fathom for some (most) of the media's activities is
that we are be blackmailed. BOOM.

I have seriously considered being taken hostage by these criminals we are at war with and truly if I was having my head cut off in some made for al jazero
propaganda scheme, I would consider myself dead BUT they can not hurt me.

Even if the screaming goes on for weeks and they have a Dr. to keep me alive. I still say fark 'em. I know about the Bataan Death March.