‘Why I Published Those Cartoons’

Fleming Rose, Editor of the Jyllands-Posten, explains.  Meanwhile, there is more fuel for my “paxil in the water” proposal:

• Attacking a U.S. embassy over Danish cartoons.
• “God Bless Hitler.”  A German newspaper thinks the message this sends is unclear.
• Nigerian Muslim mobs burn churches, kill three kids and a priest.  Fifteen dead, total.  What’s most noticeable about all this isn’t the existence of extremism.  It’s the lack of a moderate response.
• Tigerhawk is through with asymetic sensitivity.  My own feeling is that our treatment of violence and thuggishness as legitimate – even to the point of capitulation to them – emboldens those reactions.
• The newest outrage:  blasphemous Mohammed emoticons!
• Still no takers on my fatwa offering a hundred bucks to anyone who smears a violence-inciting Pakistani cleric in lard.