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Essay on Multiculturalism
One can find these cartoons mediocre. One can and it would still be true decide that depicting the prophet in this way, particularly with such obnoxious features, wasn't the brightest idea in the present context and amounted to tossing a lit match onto a powder keg. Still, it is one thing to publish ludicrous cartoons in a newspaper that no one has heard of outside Denmark, but it is quite another to see these cartoons travel around the globe four months later, igniting a form of planetary with enormous demonstrations, embassies and consulates set on fire, a priest shot dead in Turkey, four protesters killed in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan, not to mention the turning of Westerners living on Islamic soil into targets, mortal enemies threatened with death expiatory victims offered to the white hot, crazed and radicalized crowd.
So what made this demented scene, this planetary upheaval, possible? However you might look at the problem, it is hard not to see that insidious forces have brought these drawings to the attention of the Muslim masses. And it is hard not to link this provocation, the deliberate circulation of these cartoons, the quasi-home-delivery of a Danish paper that no one could have guessed had so many readers in the Muslim world, it is hard not to link this self-inflicted blasphemy, this calculated offense calculated, mind you, by the organizers of the distribution of the cartoons......
