Flags of the World

The publication of some cartoons has led to deadly riots, attempts to kidnap Westerners, attacks on many Western embassies located in the Middle East, open warfare in Afghanistan, the murder of a Christian priest, burning of the flags of many countries and open hostility to everything Danish.

As offensive as these cartoons may be, there is a troubling trend that reverberates from this crisis. The tendency of Muslims to resort to violence in order to intimidate their hastily perceived enemies. Islam is at war with every major religion on this planet. No other religion can say that.

Apologists for Islamist hatred are quick to note alleged “crimes” against Muslims that provoke them to commit such acts in self-defense. How does that explain the worldwide targeting of civilians by Islamic terrorists (with much support from the mainstream Islamic world)? To justify these actions Islamist propaganda dehumanizes the civilian populations of its enemies in the minds of its followers.

This crisis is a revealing example of how it happens. A Danish newspaper publishes cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. This leads Muslims around the world to attack everything Danish, not just the newspaper in question.

Muslims have access to the Internet, newspapers and television news just like Westerners. They are familiar with the Western concept of Freedom of the Press. What brings them to attacking embassies, burning flags and boycotting Danish goods? ...It is the time honored Islamic tradition of violent intimidation of their enemies. Although it was a Danish newspaper that was the “cause of the crisis”, all Danish citizens and their government have become targets.

This post doesn’t publish the most outrageous pictures from the anti-Western riots because there is a theme that I follow. I have displayed pictures of the public burning of flags that belong to many different nations in order to illustrate how Islamic hatred is so adept at dehumanizing its enemies that a protest against a newspaper can spiral into a protest against all non-believers. It is astonishing that this comes as the result of the publication of some cartoons.



A typical scene of a burning Danish flag, repeated countless times across the world.



A French flag burns in retaliation for the publication of the cartoons by French newspaper "France Soir", despite the fact that the editor was fired for the act.



Although no major US periodical published the cartoons we might as well throw some anti-Americanism into the mix.



Flag manufacturers cant keep up with the demand as flags are burned so quickly this one goes by unidentified. Do the Jews control the trade and manufacturing of flags?...



What would an Islamic riot be without the hallmark of anti-Semitism, the burning of the Israeli flag?



A Norwegian flag joins the party. Islamists make no distinction between a Norwegian newspaper and the country itself. This is the politics of intimidation.



On the left we have a fine example of the proper way to display the Danish flag and on the right we have the Islamist method.

It is only fair to point out that the Danes have also been known to riot. Below is a picture of one of those black periods in Danish history. The Danes are depicted rioting against the Nazis in World War II while Islamists join forces with the Nazis in Berlin, Yugoslavia and the Middle East.