One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other

Newsbusters writes:

Can you believe it? ABC displayed a painting depicting Mohammed as a dog, and then had the temerity/stupidity to ask if Muslims would find it offensive. Actually, you can’t believe it. ABC did no such thing — nor is it conceivable it would do so.

But displaying a painting depicting Christ as a dog, and wondering whether anyone would find it offensive? Sure.

As I wrote during Newsweek’s phony “Koran-in-the-can” story at Gitmo in 2005:

So how ’bout it, MSM? We now know how ardently you’ll defend a religion which is practiced by about three million Americans according to Daniel Pipes, and roughly double that from other sources. Ready to start defending the Judeo-Christian faiths practiced by–or at a bare minimum, respected by–the other 290 million people in this country?

Or as Glenn Reynolds wrote during the (real) Motoons crisis last year:

Once again, the message is that if you blow things up, or even look as if you might, we’ll be nice to you. And once again, I note that this is a very unwise message to send.

Of course, ABC could always do what the New York Times once did when it came across an altogether more shocking piece of anti-Christian art: hire the artist yourself to illustrate a story. Maybe something about Abu Ghraib…