part of a wider global jihad against western values

Submitted by DH (United States), Feb 10, 2006 at 15:12

Dr. Pipes has written the most trenchant and well-observed piece on this issue. Most commentators appear to be so worried about causing offense to a group quick to use violence that they have swallowed the lie that the cartoons were offensive. For another perspective on how this is a global Islamist jihad launched against a small European country read this:

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=6939

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