Islamist Extremists and Left Wing Extremists: Not a Pretty Picture

Compare the 4 pictures from the anti-Denmark riots above with the 4 anti-Bush pictures below. Besides the obvious parallel between the Islamist and Left Wing fixation on beheadings, has the Left Wing display of hatred made it easier for the Islamists to similarly riot and display their hate with impunity? If protests in Great Britain are any indication, the answer is yes: But in Britain the debate has now widened into other and maybe more ominous fields: the limits of multiculturalism as a basis for public policy and especially for policing, and the place of Islam in pluralist societies. For years the London tabloids the Sun and the Daily Mail have been grumbling about "political correctness gone mad" and the pussyfooting methods of our multiculti police. Now liberals are uneasily facing the possibility that they might be right. Not only did the police make no arrests at last Friday's grotesque demonstration, which openly incited murder; they actually sheltered the fanatics. Two men who tried to stage a peaceable counterdemonstration were hustled away for questioning. A working-class Londoner who got out of his van to say something to Choudary and his friends was told in violent language by a cop to get back in his van and go away. [emphasis added] This is the same Great Britain where Charlie Brooker wrote for the Guardian in October 2004: On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?" [emphasis added]

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