Crapping on the Koran, part 2

Will wonders never cease? The conservative columnist of the NY Times, David Brooks, came to the defense of Newsweek today.

Brooks takes note of the fact that radical Islamists hardly need a short item in an American magazine with an excellent reputation to incite them to senseless violence against almost everyone.

He doesn’t actually put it in so many words, but, he suggests we ask Muslim clerics, “Where is the Koran, if not in the toilet, when you are encouraging children to blow themselves up to kill fellow Muslims in Afganistan?”

Now I’ve never incited Muslims to violence by, for example, calling for a “crusade” or invading their country, unlike a certain President I know. And I’ve never pissed off Hindus by calling them devil worshipers, like a certain Christian leader.

But, I have written some fairly inflammatory things about right wing Christians in this space, and so far no one has walked in here ringed with C4. Of course, I’m not an “activist” judge either. Maybe the Christian bombers are saving themselves for when it really counts.


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