Denmark Cartoons or Islamic Caricatures – Six of One or Half Dozen of the Other
By Michael Bresciani (02/24/06)
Insult and injury are part of the present geopolitical landscape. Not many
apologies are being offered up by anyone and even if they were, would it
make much difference, would it avert a war or the next act of terrorism?
Let’s see.
Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper issued an apology and whisked it off
to the Jordanian news agency Petra for publishing cartoons that supposedly
were insulting to the prophet Muhammad. The arguments about the poor taste
of the cartoonist notwithstanding, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark’s prime
minister says he and his government cannot apologize for the country since
the newspaper is independent and not an agency of the government. To most
people this makes sense but Islam is not most people.
It would seem that this entire tip toeing around Islam is far above
absurdity and much closer to insanity. Can anyone remember an apology
coming to Indonesia for the bombings there by radical Islamists? Did the
British get an apology for the bombings of its subway? Who has heard one
representative of any radical Islamic group apologize for the death and
destruction wrought in America on 9/11?
Is the apology offered by the Danish newspaper for there lack of taste and
discretion or is it for other reasons? Is it because boycotts of Danish
products like milk, insulin and food stuffs? Or finally is it the fear or
reprisals in the form of terrorist attacks on embassies, public places,
schools and homes. Perhaps it is only a reasonable attempt at diplomacy
that a free nation would employ under any circumstances in a civilized
world.
Terrorism by any other name is still just terrorism, insulted prophets
notwithstanding. If free nations have decided not to negotiate with
terrorists on any level then we are forced to ask, why then are we making
apologies for cartoons? Last time I looked, no cartoon had ever toppled a
building or killed a child in the street.
The behavior of radical Islam is creating a cartoon all on its own. It is
more like a caricature than a cartoon. A caricature by nature is a cartoon
that depicts something by exaggerating it’s most prominent or obtrusive
qualities. The “would be” beauty has hips and other feminine features
exaggerated to say she is voluptuous. The guy who wants his strength
accentuated has the artist draw muscles way out of proportion to his body
to accentuate that point.
Islam has been creating a caricature not with brush or pen for the last
several years all around the globe. It has exaggerated features including
the bombing of men, women and children almost always without mercy,
without warning and without reason. Not one apology has ever been offered
for this dreadful radical Islamic cartoon.
I have been warning Christians for over thirty years of the coming portent
of the world’s last dictator commonly referred to as the Antichrist. It is
well known to them that the bible clearly predicts that he will exalt
himself above every other world leader before him and above every kind of
worship of God, be it the worship of the true God or some aberration,
heresy or cult. II Thessalonians 2:4 “Who opposeth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”
It is barley known to the Muslim faith and certainly would not be heeded
or even acknowledged but that last dictator will make no apologies to them
either. He will endeavor to crush every major religion in the world. He
will momentarily succeed but not with warfare of force but rather by
drawing the entire world into an economic system that no one will escape.
Only a handful of westerners have ever converted to Islam in its entire
history because of pictures it draws much like the Danish cartoon. Those
pictures make a caricature of its ugliest components which are death,
judgment and punishment, both on an unwarranted and unreasonable scale.
Maybe civilized people still prefer pictures of a gentle Savior with
children around him. Or a woman caught in adultery saved from stoning by a
merciful Messiah who came to save the world rather than judge it. Millions
of people have been converted by these pictures and will be much more
until the end of time.
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