TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Ah, the Differences Among Us

By Cardinalpark at 2/02/2006 04:09:00 PM

As I see stories like this, and reflect on the impact of the Danes and French trying to defend freedom of thought and expression, I am reminded of this cartoon of Ariel Sharon in 2003. That certainly didn't provoke much of a reaction from global Jews. I don't recall any violence against Brits directed by Jews, or the closing of any British consular offices in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, do you? Hmmm. I didn't think so.

UPDATE (from TigerHawk): The cartoon to which Cardinalpark links actually won an award from the Political Cartoon Society of Great Britain. Here is a more legible version (click on the picture for a larger version):

It is not even worth wondering why there is a double standard.

Further UPDATE from CardinalPark - on additional rumination, do you think such a stink would be made if a newspaper in a Muslim country published a cartoon lampooning a Jewish or Christain Deity? Should this question not be asked?

UPDATE (from TigerHawk): Michelle Malkin has extensive coverage of our spineless media, who are willing to take on the government of the United States in the name of free speech, but apparently unwilling to defend those same principles against fanatics in foreign lands.

Meanwhile, Wretchard, as usual, cuts to the chase:

[M]any Europeans -- not most, but many -- are suddenly aware they stand on the edge. If they let Islamic clerics determine what Europeans can and cannot print in their own press through a process of intimidation and force, the Old Continent will have surrendered a large part of its independence and sovereignty. The holy grail of every agitator is to find an issue on which both sides are unalterably opposed. Radical Islam has found it the blasphemy of Mohammed and ironically gave those who would rouse the West a mirror issue of their own: the blasphemy of censorship and the extinction of freedom of speech.

Both sides now are in too deep to climb down without damage. For the European press the path to this confrontation has been imperceptible, absentminded and catastrophic. Yet all so terribly familiar. The old warnings come naturally to mind....

The fine, broad highway to Hell that is political correctness which has achieved the opposite of its intent: not the universal chorus of harmony but religious conflict at its most primitive level.

And, finally, from a correspondant of Sissy Willis: