Pork: The New Hate Crime

How long until pork is outlawed altogether, just to avoid offending the delicate sensibilities of our Muslim overlords?

Like protests such as "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day," some Americans are needling what they perceive to be an over-sensitive Muslim population with acts that – to non-Muslims – seem relatively tame. In the process, they are exposing the vast difference between what is considered acceptable by the measures of American free speech and by the believers of Islam.

"These are not hate crimes, but they're expressions of intolerance, really," says David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "I think a lot of this is generated by a lack of understanding, anger about 9/11, and a great deal of misinformation about Muslims in America and Islam, all of which is in plentiful abundance on the Internet and on blogs."
Pork as a weapon

According to the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), attacks on mosques, cases of Americans burning and even shotgun-blasting Qurans, and personal confrontations on streets have ticked up in recent months. Such claims are hard to quantify, experts say, because more people may simply be reporting incidents that went unheeded in the past.

Of course those nice folks from CAIR, the unindicted terrorist co-conspirators, would never make any of this up, right? Of course when it comes to the media, these folks hold more sway that tea partiers.

Deeply Offended Muslims Riot in Bangladesh

Cartoon violence spreads around the globe, and we're not talking about Tom & Jerry.

Police halt B'desh protest over magazine cartoon

Baton-wielding police broke up a protest by hundreds of Islamists in the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday against a magazine which published a cartoon they said hurt Muslims' religious feelings, witnesses said.

Poor little Muslims. Such delicate sensibilities. It's a wonder how they summon the courage to chop off heads on a regular basis.

Police waded in to halt a march by about 500 demonstrators chanting "death to the editor" and "hang the cartoonist" near Dhaka's national mosque.

Police said the march could not go ahead under the current state of emergency, imposed when an army-backed interim government took charge in January after months of political violence.

The protest came two days after the offending cartoon was printed in "Alpin", a weekly magazine published by Prothom Alo, the country's leading Bangla-language daily.

Police arrested the cartoonist, Arifur Rahman, at his Dhaka home on Tuesday, after Muslim religious leaders complained.

I see a parallel growing in the United States. Muslim "leaders" whine about the slightest of alleged offenses and the authorities hop to it.

The Information Ministry said it had seized copies of the offending magazine issue.

The interim government has pledged to punish the offenders, but urged the people to remain calm and show patience.

Good luck with that. Patience is definitely not a strong suit of the bloodthirsty Islamofascists.

"Definitely it is a conspiracy to ignite unrest in the country. The government will punish the offenders," Mainul Husein, adviser to the interim government in charge of the law and information ministries, told Muslim leaders on Tuesday.