The Shaming Has Begun

The last couple of days I’ve been pointing out the disgraceful and violent behavior of many Muslims in the protests over the Danish cartoons.

THAT’S STILL GOING ON.

In fact, people have been dying in the protests. As many as 10 have been killed in Afghanistan–shot by crowd control officers.

Now the largest paper in the Islamofascist state Iran–with whom we’re going to have to go to war in the next year or so if their crazy president doesn’t get reigned in by the mullahs (who at the moment seem to be egging him on to a Shi’a apocalyptic policy)–has ANNOUNCED A CONTEST TO MAKE FUN OF THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST.

AND THE EDITOR OF THE DANISH PAPER THAT STARTED THIS SAYS HE’LL PRINT THE HOLOCAUST CARTOONS.

BUT THERE ARE MUSLIM GROUPS CALLING FOR AN END TO THE PROTESTS AND DEATH THREATS.

There’s even a group of Arabs who have set up a web site apologizing to Norway and Denmark for the shameful actions of their co-religionists.

CHECK OUT SORRYNORWAYDENMARK.COM.

The shaming has begun.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

9 thoughts on “The Shaming Has Begun”

  1. But I thought Mister Iranian Crazyman thought the Holocaust was a myth. So why does he want cartoons of something which (allegedly) didn’t happen?

  2. From the ABC7 story:
    “I do not regret it,” Rose said. “I think it is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt at a discotheque Friday night. In that sense, in our culture, if you’re wearing a short skirt, that does not necessarily mean you invite everybody to have sex with you…”
    Don’t even get me started…

  3. Father Neuhaus has great commentary over at First Things – he says the real issue id not about the Muslims’ hypocrisy or even freedom of speech, but the fact that they want __everyone in the world to obey Islamic sharia law___. This is EXTREMELY dangerous stuff that goes far beyond the usual debate.

  4. We can complain and bellyache about the lunatic way some Moslems are defending their faith. But what are we doing in a Christian way–nonviolently and with the peaceful use of our God-given rights–to push back against those who similiarly trash the Catholic or Christian Faith?? The DaVinci Code film will soon be coming out. It is fiction filled with lies and distortions about Christianitty and the Catholic Church made to look like facts (the worst “type” cartoon” of all).
    But is anyone–the Knights of Columbus, the bishops, Catholic colleges and universities–going to take any actions at all to push back? Or will we all sit here picking our noses– as usual– as we and our Faith are publicly bashed, smashed, and thrashed???

  6. Speaking for himself, Deacon John wrote:
    “Or will we all sit here picking our noses– as usual– as”
    In a way, we are reaping what we did not sow. We could have done a better job of evangelising Muslims, but we did not.
    The “lunatic” way they defend their faith (Christ’s Peace Be Upon Them) is disconcerting. They do not really defend their faith, but impose it.
    Francis

  7. So, what is the best method of protesting the upcoming “Da Vinci Code” movie?
    a) staying away in droves
    b) writing/blogging about it (and potentially giving it more free publicity)
    c) call a boycott of other Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, “Amelie”, or Sony/Columbia Pictures movies
    d) make/support a documentary explaining the flaws of “The Da Vinci Code”
    e) write it off as another attempt by Hollywood to slam Christians
    f) pray for the souls of all those involved, and thereby “heap burning coals on their heads” (Proverbs 25:21-22; Romans 12:19-21)
    g) offer up the shame of this movie for the conversion of souls, for the strengthening of our own, and for the souls in Purgatory
    Whatever option you choose, I think any and all of these are better than the options exercised by the rioting Muslims.

  8. Jyllands-Posten is denying that they will publish the Holocaust cartoons: “Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten’s Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste emphasizes that Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten in no circumstances will publish Holocaust cartoons from an Iranian newspaper.”

  9. I agree with you, Jamie. One of my favorite TV shows was “Happy Days”. I now refuse to watch any episode that Ron Howard was in, or the one Tom Hanks was in.

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