Friday, June 29, 2007

An Honor Worth Defending

This has just come in from Felix with the comment, "Brilliant article you may want to put on your blog":

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali Posted: Monday, June 25, 2007 ARTICLES
International Herald Tribune Publication Date: June 25, 2007

Imagine if a crowd of Englishmen marched in London carrying effigies of Muhammad, peace be upon him, stacks of the Koran, miniatures of the Kaaba in Mecca and Saudi flags. Imagine if they then built a bonfire and hurled the items one at a time into that fire screaming "Long Live the Queen!" each time the flames shot up.
This would be the equivalent of what hardline Muslim students did in the eastern Pakistani city of Multan, to take just one example, when they burned effigies this week of Queen Elizabeth II and Salman Rushdie, chanting "Kill him! Kill him!" in response to his recently bestowed knighthood.

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