CNN.com - Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze - Feb 5, 2006
"Wielding sticks and stones, the demonstrators ransacked the building on Sunday, smashing its windows."
"Sunday's demonstrations came a day after Muslims in the Syrian capital Damascus torched the Norwegian and Danish embassies."
The cartoonist that drew the images of Mohammed probably went over the line and was disrespectful, however, reaction of this kind is a bit over the top and is quite unseemly, uncontrolled and savage. It makes you think.
We in the U.S. and the rest of the West are a little more subdued than this; unless our team wins.
"How did it come to pass that an opposition's measure of a president's foreign policy was all or nothing, success or "failure"? The answer is that the political absolutism now normal in Washington arrived at the moment--Nov. 7, 2000--that our politics subordinated even a war against terror to seizing the office of the presidency." - Daniel Henninger - WSJ 11/18/05
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"the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." - George Orwell
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Sunday, February 05, 2006
CNN.com - Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze - Feb 5, 2006
Posted by a.k.a. Blandly Urbane at 12:26:00 PM
CNN.com - Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze - Feb 5, 2006
2006-02-05T12:26:00-07:00
a.k.a. Blandly Urbane
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