re: #189 Talking Point Detective

I’m on board with this reaction to the Koran-burning.

so…

As much as I think that cartoonists should certainly have the right to draw whatever cartoons they want, and as much as I find it abhorrent that anyone would commit violence because their religious icons were negatively portrayed in a cartoon - I also hold at least some of the Danish cartoonists involved responsible for the violence that ensued because some of the cartoons were drawn to be deliberately provocative.

Is there some distinction between the Koran burning and the cartoons that I’m missing?

There’s probably some distinction, but I was never all that enthralled with the Danish cartoons. Some of them were disrespectful and obnoxious. Not killing nuns in Nigeria level obnoxious, mind you, but I would have been pissed off had I been Muslim. I was pissed off anyway.

Some of them were, I thought, kind of cute.

The MAJOR difference is that while both actions were provoked by a spirit of shit-disturbing, Jones was warned, by, among other luminaries, David Petraeus himself, that this would have exactly this effect. He went ahead anyway.

I don’t think the Danish cartoonists thought that people would die over what they did.

Jones knew it.