The Roots Of Muslim Rage

For some background on what drives the Muslim rage behind the Cartoon Jihad, it's worth reading this sixteen year old article in The Atlantic Monthly magazine, "The Roots Of Muslim Rage," written by Bernard Lewis, well known Middle Eastern historian, in 1990:

"What is truly evil and unacceptable is the domination of infidels over true believers. For true believers to rule misbelievers is proper and natural, since this provides for the maintenance of the holy law, and gives the misbelievers both the opportunity and the incentive to embrace the true faith. But for misbelievers to rule over true believers is blasphemous and unnatural, since it leads to the corruption of religion and morality in society, and to the flouting or even the abrogation of God's law. This may help us to understand the current troubles in such diverse places as Ethiopian Eritrea, Indian Kashmir, Chinese Sinkiang, and Yugoslav Kossovo, in all of which Muslim populations are ruled by non-Muslim governments. It may also explain why spokesmen for the new Muslim minorities in Western Europe demand for Islam a degree of legal protection which those countries no longer give to Christianity and have never given to Judaism. Nor, of course, did the governments of the countries of origin of these Muslim spokesmen ever accord such protection to religions other than their own. In their perception, there is no contradiction in these attitudes. The true faith, based on God's final revelation, must be protected from insult and abuse; other faiths, being either false or incomplete, have no right to any such protection."

If you were wondering how Muslims reconcile their hypocrisy of violently protesting the Danish cartoons while publishing with no apology vile cartoons about other religions, well, the answer is that Muslims see no hypocrisy there. Islam is right and everything else is wrong. It's completely right to protect Islam because it's the only true faith. It's completely right to denigrate other religions because they are false and deserve contempt. Got that?