Something rotten in the state of Denmark.

And the Phillipines, Thailand, Nigeria, Italy, Syria, and a bunch of other Muslimic nations. (New word. Quote me.) There is a bizarre kind of irony and humor in headlines like "Cartoon Death Toll Rises to Nine"--until you realize that some people actually think it's rational to slaughter people over a cartoon.

Other people have said a lot about this already. To rehash it briefly, there is simply no equivalence between drawing a cartoon and mobbing and killing and raping and burning. Around the globe. For no apparent reason. Seriously -- almost five months after they were published? These people are monsters. They are inhuman. Their offenses are as psychotic as they are. It's like trying to have a rational discussion over enhanced recission authority or local school board elections with a schizophrenic doped up on Prozac and tangled in a straightjacket. You just can't do it. One party isn't only not participating, they can't process the words in the order they're spoken. That's where we are with the Muslim street.

That's where I part company with Jim Geraghty for the moment. "It's good that moderate Muslims in America are expressing themselves through peaceful protest," he wrote in TKS, "but I hope they understand that Islam's reputation isn't being shaped by their lawful actions; it's being shaped by the arson and murder overseas."

Except that this is a pained translation of "peaceful." About like calling Islam a religion of peace. These images (via Michelle Malkin) are not peaceful.




Again -- this doesn't compare to the people spouting off about beheading people who insult the Dear and Glorious Prophet of Peaceful Jihad, a seventh century Martin Luther King. But is this what you would term a peaceful protest? What are they protesting? Why here? Because InstaPundit posted two of the pictures? Because a handful of newspapers put links on their websites? For this Islam must dominate? And, as Michelle Malkin pointed out at the DC pro-jihad rally, these keynote speakers and leaders are supporting bounties on the heads of Danish cartoonists, while spouting off in public venues protected by the Constitutional rights for assembly and, yes, speech. Whaddup?

I am sick of these Muslims. Blowing up double decker buses and subways and airplanes and trains and buildings gets Muslims out in the street -- dancing for joy around burning flags and screaming about hate crimes and vicitmization (of them and their terrorist buddies, not the charred bodies and grieving widows). They come out in the street to kill people and burn churches and businesses and embassies. They offer death threats with state-funded, or at least state-sanctioned, rewards. And a peaceful protest (of what? For the love of my tripartite God -- what were they protesting?) consists of them threatening to "dominate" and to "bring down the wrath of Allah." Lovely. So when has any group of them ever stood up and said that not only is the murdering wrong, but celebrating it is wrong? We can't get them to admit killing people is bad. We're a few yards away from convincing them being happy people got killed is bad, too. And that is true of the culture and the religion. It is true across borders and ethnicities. There is a common thread. Islam is the problem. And I'm sick of it.