The Mohammed Cartoons

It's a pretty hot topic right, so I'll just throw in my quick opinion and move on-

1- The cartoons are provocative, but not intentionally offensive
2- The newspapers have the right to print them if they desire
3- The overreaction of the Muslim world is insanely militant, to say the least
4- The reason I just don't care to discuss the issue beyond that is because of the right-wing blogosphere obsession over it. Pretending as if they suddenly care about a free press (when they have spent years treating our press like a villain) is no more than a transparent attempt to engage in more Islam bashing while appearing to be taking a high ground. That the Muslim reaction is increasingly undefendable is almost beside the point. These right-wingers are the same people who who treat any critical looks at Christianity (ie. NBC's now-cancelled "Book of Daniel") or religious imagery (the Kanye-Jesus Rolling Stone cover) as an all-out assault on their very being. They obviously fall short of jihad, but America's radical Christians are no strangers to angry overreactions. The hypocrisy goes on and on. Boycott France for opinions, Support Denmark over cartoons. The general points about free press and Muslim overreaction are right, but the right-wing is exploiting this issue for their own ideological reasons. When the right defends our free press in America, I'll start to care. Until then, the Pajamas crowd can just go crawl back into bed to cower in constant fear, happily surrending their rights to their protector King George.

That's my two cents. Have a solemn 'international day of anger', everyone.