I read Michael Coren’s column this morning in the Toronto Sun and thought it was a very interesting take on the Danish cartoon story. I exchanged emails with him, and he allowed us to post his column here as a guest columnist, as he has generously done several times before. So you’ll find it in the Columnist Section along with the others, but here’s a piece of “Protesters right to be outraged”:
[…] It was only when the Danish and then Norwegian and French press ran wild with the thing that the Muslim world, yes, ran wild in response.
One of the most troubling aspects of all this is the reaction of so many Christians. They seem to think that the battle between western values and Islamic sensitivities places observant Catholics and evangelicals on the side of the West.
Not so. The West is no longer Christendom but the heartland of secular humanism and fundamentalist atheism. This is the West that regularly insults Christ, mocks Christianity and increasingly takes away the rights of genuine Christians to practise their faith.
A publicly funded museum featuring a picture of Jesus soaked in urine. Another with the Virgin Mary covered in excrement. A Canadian cartoon last year depicting Pope Benedict, whose father almost lost his life to Hitler and his gang, making a Nazi salute to Mary, the Mother of Christ.
Jesus portrayed in a play as a homosexual who has a sexual relationship with one of his disciples. Cartoons showing the Pope smiling as women and babies are killed. Endless television shows spewing forth horrible caricatures of priests, ministers and devout Christians. On and on and on, and then the execrable Da Vinci Code.
We hear Muslims saying, “They wouldn’t treat Jesus in this way.” They’re wrong, of course. Not because they are stupid but because they assume that a part of the world founded on the beauty of Christianity would not then be so disgustingly rude about Christ. […]
While you’re at it, naturally you should read the column by our friend and regular columnist, the brilliant Salim Mansur today as well. It’s called Muslim contradiction.
The world, perhaps, is exhausted with trying to understand what malady torments some Muslims to behave insanely. And with their propensity to violence as in the latest saga over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
How does one explain how cartoons—however objectionable to religious sensibility—can spark violence in the name of Islam, which means peace? […]
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