The Muslims, many of whom are dirt poor, are doing their best to ensure that they stay that way by torching the businesses of the only employers in town.
This isn't about depictions of Muhammed. What, after all, do the United States and KFC have to do with Danish cartoonists? This is how people react when they sense, if only inchoately, that there is no plausible argument that they can make to defend either their behavior or their beliefs. It's what people do when they lack the wit to say or do anything constructive. In their frustration and impotence they simply wax furious and break things. If there's one thing that the Muslim mob has proven itself adept at it's breaking things and killing people. It's what they do best and they're quick to hone their skills whenever they get the chance.
An Italian Reform Minister, Roberto Calderoli, has decided he's had enough of Muslim demands that the rest of the world adopt their religious views:
Calderoli, a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, told Ansa news agency on Tuesday that the West had to stand up against Islamist extremists and offered to hand out T-shirts to anyone who wanted them. "I have had T-shirts made with the cartoons that have upset Islam and I will start wearing them today," Ansa quoted Calderoli as saying.
He said the T-shirts were not meant to be a provocation but added that he saw no point trying to appease extremists. "We have to put an end to this story that we can talk to these people. They only want to humiliate people. Full stop. And what are we becoming? The civilization of melted butter?" Calderoli said.
We look forward to the inevitable Muslim reprisals. Perhaps they'll start wearing T-shirts in Islamabad with pictures of the Pope wearing a missile nose-cone as a miter. Oh, wouldn't that shut up the West. Wouldn't that incense the infidels. Outraged Catholics would be flooding the streets of Rome burning down mosques and embassies, beating up Arabs and shouting pithy slogans like "Death to all Muslims," and things like that. The savage rioting would no doubt persist for days. Or at least until naptime.
