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see "Pakistan hardliners honor bin Laden in Rushdie row" (Reuters, 6/21/07)
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL24311420070621

I went on a bit of a rant two days ago about Muslim reaction to the knighting of Salman Rushdie.

I pointed out then, as I have frequently that the West's tolerance for "diversity" is causing us to underestimate our enemy, and leading "radical Islam" (which is to say most of Islam) to believe that we are easy and ripe targets.

Now we get another perfect example of how Muslims think, this time from the Pakistan Ulema Council, which Reuters describes as "a group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics". These guys have given Osama bin Laden their highest award (not that it's worth anything) in response to Rushdie's knighthood.

In other words, the proper retaliation for "outrage", hurt feelings, or ridiculing a book would be mass murder.

I'm not sure how long it will take for the leaders of the Democratic Party to wake up and smell the jihad. I fear they won't do it until something happens that makes 9/11 seem like small potatoes, and even then they'll probably just say that the Islamofascists are simply misunderstood or that their attacks are our fault.

The more I think about these issues, the more amazed I am that any rational American would even consider voting for a Democratic candidate for President in 2008. What that says about our electorate is a topic for another day...