“What should the response of Europe be? More cartoons or less cartoons? What kind of civilization are we, after all, if we refrain from mocking and ridiculing bin Laden and his followers?”
More cartoons, more films, more books. More people asking more questions and taking Islam to task and yes, even more ridicule.
No one “church” of spiritual thought should ever have power over the right to freedom of speech, which basically is the right and freedom to question.
Had Christianity not gone through Enlightenment, Europe would still be burning witches and heretics at the stake and the Pope would be at the head of European government. How really different are the Jihadis from the Christian Crusaders?
Of course they will not move towards modernity without the self-realization that exposing Islam for what it is will show. Cartoons help. But it has to be done. It is virutally the last deadly virus of our ancient barbaric past. Islam and its followers are in need of a big enlightenment what-for.
