LC wrote:


There is no excusing Newsweek's irresponsibility in this. But this is not
really a story about media bias or carelessness at all. There is a much
larger story that is getting hardly any attention at all. The gorilla in the
living room that no one wants to notice, is that flushing a Qur'an down the
toilet should not be grounds to commit murder.

You don't need much ground for the radical islamic mind to go beserk and
commit murder. When dealing with the radical muslim mind, it isn't a
rational mind you are dealing with.


Neither one says anything whatsoever about a culture that condones -
celebrates -wanton murder of innocent people, mayhem, and destruction in
response to the alleged and unproven destruction of a book.

The question here is one of proportionate response. If a Qur'an had indeed
been flushed, Muslims would have justifiably been offended. They may
justifiably have considered the perpetrators boors, or barbarians, or
hell-bound unbelievers. They may justifiably have issued denunciations
accordingly. But that is all. To kill people thousands of miles away who had
nothing to do with the act, and to fulminate with threats and murder against
the entire Western world, all because of this alleged act, is not just
disproportionate. It is not just excessive. It is mad. And every decent
person in the world ought to have the courage to stand up and say that it is
mad.

But that is the mindset of radical islam.