Flush to Justice

Newsweak has been busy groveling to every media outlet available all day today as they attempt to defend the indefensible. What's more curious is that some on the left are even attempting to blame the Administration for this whole mess. After all, goes their logic, Newsweak supposedly showed the story to Defense Department officials and they didn't stop them from publishing it. Stop me before I print bogus information again!

One of the things that I and others have found interesting is the over-the-top reaction by Muslims to the perceived violation of their holy book. Christians take such abuses on a daily basis, and yet I'm not aware of riots or murders breaking out every time a judge orders a cross removed or a creche scene pulled from a public place.

James Taranto notes a particularly grievous example of anti-Christian destruction, this time perpetrated by Muslims:

...recall that three years ago Palestinian Arab terrorists occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Priests reported that "gunmen tore up Bibles for toilet paper," according to the Daily Camera of Boulder, Colo. The Chicago Tribune noted after the siege that "altars had been turned into cooking and eating tables, a sacrilege to the religious faithful."

Christians in the U.S. responded by declining to riot and refraining from killing anyone. They had the same response 15 or so years ago when the National Endowment for the Arts was subsidizing the scatological desecration of a crucifix and other Christian symbols. This should also put to rest the oft-heard calumny that America's "religious right" is somehow a Christian equivalent of our jihadi enemies.

The ACLU should thank their lucky stars that Christians don't act with the same violence that Muslims do when their faith is insulted. If they did, ACLU lawyer heads would be rolling...literally...all across this country.