The news:
The home of a Swedish artist who once drew a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as a dog has been hit by a suspected arson attack, police said Saturday.
Lars Vilks, who lives in Nyhamnslage in southern Sweden, was not at home during the attack late Friday night and no one was reported injured.
It was the latest in a week of attacks on the 53-year-old cartoonist, who was assaulted Tuesday by a man while he lectured at a university and saw his Web site apparently attacked by hacker on Wednesday.
Now, Mr. Vilks should not have drawn Mohammed as a dog – just as I don’t like it when someone creates a disgraceful picture of, say, the Blessed Virgin, so I don’t think that anyone should create things which are intended to cause offense to religious sensibilities. There is such a thing as good manners – and they have been far too long ignored in our society.
On the other hand, I’m not going to torch the house of an artist who makes offensive pictures about things I hold sacred. And there in lies the difference between Christians, like me, and all to many representatives of the “religion of peace” (which phrase, by the way, annoys me no end – “Islam” does not mean “peace”, it means “submission” – we have to double lie about Islam in the name of political correctness, it would seem). I get upset, forgive and pray for the offenders – Moslems tend to burn and break things, and kill people when they can.
Until we acknowledge the truth, we’re just not going to get anywhere with Islam. Part of this truth is a penchant for violence of the vilest type – there is much good in Islam and, yes, there can be Islamic democracy (once you really understand what democracy means – it doesn’t mean legalized drugs or free access to porn…it means the people are regularly consulted on what policy shall be pursued, even if you disagree with the policy). But we won’t be able to help bring out the good in Islam unless we recognize and deal with the bad.
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