Last week, this was deemed by The Washington Post and 20-odd other American newspapers to be unfit material for consumption by American readers, because editors thought it might cause adherents of the Religion of Peace (TM) to get their burkas in a bunch and become violently offended.
Isn't this what they call the "soft racism of lowered expectations"?
Furthermore, if a group is regularly pandered to for fear it will become violent, isn't that the same as conditioning a group to employ violence -- or the threat thereof -- to achieve its goals? Isn't that conditioning every special interest to employ violence -- or the threat thereof -- to get what it wants?
And isn't that the death knell of democracy and a civil society?
In other words, by treating people with kid gloves for fear of creating another Iraq . . . you end up with another Iraq.
HAT TIP: Crunchy Con
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