The West adds cartoons to injury

It seems Westerners ability to trespass limits knows no limits. The cartoons disgraceful affair, or global crisis as some have called it, shows the West lack of decency, moral hypocrisy and political cynicism.

Decency. Year after year Muslim and Arab blood is being spilt in the Middle East. Those who kill, maim and destroy unlawfully and without mercy, find themselves unable to intervene in the cartoons affair because they say they cannot go against the right of journalists to freely express themselves.

We have here a Jewish-Christian civilisation that kills thousands upon thousands of Muslims while invade their lands with total disregard for international and humanitarian laws, but that it is at the same time hand-tied by a sacred law about freedom of speech.

One can distinguish people of a superior civilisation simply looking at some details of their behavior. Westerners possess an extraordinary moral taste that makes intolerable for them to even think of curtailing Christian cartoonists’ right to publish their cartoons, while it makes almost compulsory for them to rescue Muslims from their inferior and intolerant civilisation, if necessary through shock and awe.

Let us think for a moment in a world turned upside-down. Iraqi, Afghan and Palestinian armies invade Denmark without UN green light, but backed by lies on an imminent Danish threat over the rest of the world. Obviously, such an invasion is for the benefit of the Danish people and for the rest of the world as well. Consequently they are expected to thank those liberating armies for their work, even if this means devastating the country, killing many of its inhabitants, and making life unbearable for survivors.

A Palestinian cartoonist, full of the superiority feeling that being a member of such a enlightened civilisation provides, draws the queen while she is being sodomized by a crucifix. The work of art is published in Arab and Muslim countries by several newspapers, while intellectuals and politicians defend his/her right to draw queens as he/she sees fit. What is the problem with this? Arab and Muslim people ask with one voice. You could think that if you have the right to invade countries and put down their population, you should also have the right to make them feel your cultural superiority and to show them that your costumes and rights prevail above all else.

Moral hypocrisy. In some European countries it is a criminal offence to deny the Jewish Holocaust. If you find an editor brave enough to publish a paper along this line, you face a penalty or something worse and you are an outcast for good. Some people may enjoy unlimited freedom of speech while some other people must enjoy something less.

Political cynicism. Ministers and editors who stick together to defend Western freedom of speech and Western right to invade Muslim and Arab countries in the name of democracy, justice and international security, are hundred per cent aware that no law -unless twisted by them- supports the ongoing Muslim and Arab Holocaust. They know as well that a timely report on women wearing the Hijab or a cartoon in the right place have dramatic -but different- effects all over the world: Boundless general humiliation over there, enormous cultural pride over here.

It is essential for the Western occupation and killing business to mix our democratisation efforts and liberation policies in Muslim and Arab lands with their problem of religious intolerance and cultural backwardness. Provoke them and poke them where they feel the maximum pain and do not worry, there is always a liberal or a social-democrat around to defend the superiority of our Western cultural values and criticise their attack on these. Millions of ignorant Western citizens will cheer the critics and will thank their governments for protecting them from Islam.

There is no barrier the West has not crushed in its relation with Islam. An irreverent cartoon should not have much importance when compared with the pain and the horror that it has imposed on Muslims and Arabs. The point is that the ongoing Holocaust is now crowned by a cartoon. After the lies and threats, after the war, after the destruction, after the torture and suffering, it is the time of the cartoons.

Perhaps Western people think they can go on damaging bodies and souls for as long as they like. However, there is room to think that this will not last forever. Even if it last I am convinced we should deeply regret it, we should feel ashamed and stop it. I do apologise for what has been done.