Thursday, February 09, 2006

Bonfire of the Pieties / OpinionJournal - Wall Street Journal, 8 Feb 2006

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007934
AMIR TAHERI
"'The Muslim Fury,' one newspaper headline screamed. 'The Rage of Islam Sweeps Europe,' said another. 'The clash of civilizations is coming,' warned one commentator. All this refers to the row provoked by the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper four months ago. Since then a number of demonstrations have been held, mostly--though not exclusively--in the West, and Scandinavian embassies and consulates have been besieged.
But how representative of Islam are all those demonstrators?"