Insult to Injury

by Christopher Orlet
American Spectator
September 9, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/452

Excerpt:

In the Netherlands one may badmouth or lampoon a group's god or prophets, just not the group itself. Many European Muslims, however, would prefer to have it the other way around, and see this as a prime example of how secular Europeans place man before God. Europeans, conversely, see the Muslim reaction as an example of how Muslims have failed to adapt to Western ways of thinking.

This distinction is at the crux of a case presently before a Dutch court. The case involves a cartoon published on a pro-Arab European websitedepicting two Jewish men poking around in a pile of bones next to a sign that reads Auschwitz. One man says, "I don't think they're Jewish. The other responds, "We have to get to six million somehow."

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