Denmark Cartoons or Islamic Caricatures - Six of One or Half
Dozen of the Other
Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper issued an apology and
whisked it off to the Jordanian news agency Petra for publishing
cartoons that supposedly were insulting to the prophet Muhammad.
The arguments about the poor taste of the cartoonist
notwithstanding, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark's prime minister
says he and his government cannot apologize for the country
since the newspaper is independent and not an agency of the
government. To most people this makes sense but Islam is not
most people.
It would seem that this entire tip toeing around Islam is far
above absurdity and much closer to insanity. Can anyone remember
an apology coming to Indonesia for the bombings there by radical
Islamists? Did the British get an apology for the bombings of
its subway? Who has heard one representative of any radical
Islamic group apologize for the death and destruction wrought in
America on 9/11?
Is the apology offered by the Danish newspaper for there lack of
taste and discretion or is it for other reasons? Is it because
boycotts of Danish products like milk, insulin and food stuffs?
Or finally is it the fear or reprisals in the form of terrorist
attacks on embassies, public places, schools and homes. Perhaps
it is only a reasonable attempt at diplomacy that a free nation
would employ under any circumstances in a civilized world.
Terrorism by any other name is still just terrorism, insulted
prophets notwithstanding. If free nations have decided not to
negotiate with terrorists on any level then we are forced to
ask, why then are we making apologies for cartoons? Last time I
looked, no cartoon had ever toppled a building or killed a child
in the street.
The behavior of radical Islam is creating a cartoon all on its
own. It is more like a caricature than a cartoon. A caricature
by nature is a cartoon that depicts something by exaggerating
it's most prominent or obtrusive qualities. The "would be"
beauty has hips and other feminine features exaggerated to say
she is voluptuous. The guy who wants his strength accentuated
has the artist draw muscles way out of proportion to his body to
accentuate that point.
Islam has been creating a caricature not with brush or pen for
the last several years all around the globe. It has exaggerated
features including the bombing of men, women and children almost
always without mercy, without warning and without reason. Not
one apology has ever been offered for this dreadful radical
Islamic cartoon.
I have been warning Christians for over thirty years of the
coming portent of the world's last dictator commonly referred to
as the Antichrist. It is well known to them that the bible
clearly predicts that he will exalt himself above every other
world leader before him and above every kind of worship of God,
be it the worship of the true God or some aberration, heresy or
cult. II Thessalonians 2:4 "Who opposeth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he
as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is
God."
It is barley known to the Muslim faith and certainly would not
be heeded or even acknowledged but that last dictator will make
no apologies to them either. He will endeavor to crush every
major religion in the world. He will momentarily succeed but not
with warfare of force but rather by drawing the entire world
into an economic system that no one will escape.
Only a handful of westerners have ever converted to Islam in its
entire history because of pictures it draws much like the Danish
cartoon. Those pictures make a caricature of its ugliest
components which are death, judgment and punishment, both on an
unwarranted and unreasonable scale. Maybe civilized people still
prefer pictures of a gentle Savior with children around him. Or
a woman caught in adultery saved from stoning by a merciful
Messiah who came to save the world rather than judge it.
Millions of people have been converted by these pictures and
will be much more until the end of time.