Free speech.......

Piss Christ.

Maybe you remember the row in the mid-90's when the NEA funded an artist's work which depicted a crucifix immersed in urine....thus its title above.

Christians and conservatives called for not only its removal, but for the plug to be pulled on the NEA, period. That hasn't happened.

This post is not about the NEA, or urine.

It's about Muhammad.

Cartoons....think about it.....cartoons, have created a worldwide furor, claiming nine lives, causing millions of dollars in damage, great schism in multiple nations, Ambassador recalls, and, as another example of the lunacy.....Norway now wants compensation from Syria after their embassy in Damascus was set ablaze.

Let's compare, shall we?

Christians: Call for ending of government funding of above discussed depictions.

Muslims: Call for end to the violence over this cartoon fury (thank goodness!)

Extremist Christians: Would protest the author, and, a few looneys would consider killing him/her, a la knocking off abortion doctors.

Extremist Muslims: See above.

Now, this is a pretty fair look at the "average people" of the two religions.

BUT......

....have you ever heard of embassies being attacked....NATO troops being engaged, and people killed because of "Piss Christ"?

No, you didn't.

Did nine people die in its protest?

Did thousands and thousands erupt in the street?

Think not.

As I asked in a previous post.....there are cases of Muslims who, in Muslim nations, where there is no freedom of religion, will go down to the Christian church and either kidnap or injure or attack or kill people because of their status as "infidels".

Last time I checked, the only stampede I've heard of from a bunch of Christians after a Sunday morning pep rally was to the all-you-can-eat buffet to, of course, get there before the other denomination gets there and takes the best fried chicken off the bar!

The next time some lefty wacko (or, say, Keith Olbermann), decide to cry out the horrific behavior of American Christians, remind to reply with two words:

The Cartoons.

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Here's an interesting aside.....the comedy geniuses in Iran decide to hold a "Holocaust Cartoon" contest to test the tolerance of the West.

Should Jews be outraged? Sure! The Muslims were! I wouldn't be putting money on thousands of Jews storming buildings and killing people over it, though.

So, to our friends in Tehran; careful when playing a game of "tit for tat"; it actually may backfire and expose your extremism.