Posted 1:06 PM by Gene

This cartoon violence (the term conjures Road Runners) is the most exasperating story since OJ. We do not blame Muslims for their upset at slighting depictions of Muhammed; smug people will slight religion. But by responding with mass psychosis (abetted by scum like Hosni and the Ophthalmologist for mere political expedience) they confirm the worst caricatures of a creed of hair-trigger wrath that would send us all back to the eighth century. How can we square the pious platitudes of "the religion of peace" with terrorism and the mad mullahs -- and their all too numerous supporters who want tolerance at their cost?

Soon this story will go away, unless the looney in Iran uses it as a pretext for a nuclear demonstration. But we will not soon forget how the rabid crowds have brought dishonor upon religion -- and upon themselves.