Look, I don't want to get picky or anything

but this article & accompanying headline raise an interesting question:

Why is everybody OK with (pardon my even mentioning it) "Pi$$ Christ" and yet Mohammed with a Bomb is cause for handwringing and discussions of "international storms?"

Look, there are plenty of Christians in the world offended by rude depictions of Jesus. Fortunately for both them & the rest of us, they usually don't run around shooting at their own neighbors and yelling "Death to [Insert Western Tyranny Here]." Perhaps they did 400 years ago, but unlike the Islamic world, we have gotten past that particular stupidity.

The Turkish Prime Minister apparently feels this is not an opportunity to have some substantive discussion on the subject; rather it's a sign that there is such a thing as too much freedom of the press. The Missing Link crowd in Gaza thinks this requires shutting down the EU offices there (there's a silver lining in every cloud, apparently.) What's clear from all of this is that the stinking cesspool that is modern, mainstream Islamic thought couldn't put a rational argument together if their lives depended on it - which they do.

Is that crude or harsh? I suppose, but I don't much care. I'm tired of all the kowtowing to the threats of the Islamic Street. The whole conversation merely deflects attention from the utter lack of freedom, safety, and success available in Muslim lands. The Turkish PM is merely playing to the hardliners there. The gaza thugs are finding something else to blame instead of their own corruption and ineptitude. And in the meantime? No commerce; no advancement; no governance. Just tyranny, brutality, suffering.

You want the crime against Islam? Look no further than Islamic leaders and followers who'd rather protest stupid cartoons than bring their people Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.