Why have these Islamic Cartoons sparked such unrest....

Here is a blog entry from today......well written and well said:

A Moment of Truth
A new non-political international movement is rising.
4000 terror attacks after 9/11, the world was still slumbering.
But 12 innocent satirical drawings in a Danish newspaper, the kind of cartoons printed daily by the thousands in newspapers all over the world, have changed the geopolitical situation.
Suddenly, a new understanding is emerging across political differences.

In recent years, the world crisis between Islam and the non-Muslim world has been discussed in thousands of books, countless television debates and millions of articles across the globe.
It did nothing but divide us.
Even former western allies were divided, and a wave of anti-Americanism has swept even the free western societies.

Now simple events, too ridiculous in size to mention, have changed all that.

For 1400 years, Islam waged war on all surrounding non-Muslim civilizations.
Christianity was reformed, dictators lived, reigned and died, and totalitarian regimes emerged and vanished again.
But Islam stayed.
Unreformed.
And today, it imprisons more than 1 billion people, moderate and radical souls alike, in a huge gap of difference to the rest of us.
Across political divides, across national boundaries, across degrees of freedom, black or white, rich or poor; it stands out as our opposite. Only Muslim reformists seek to lessen the gap.
And their voices are quickly silenced.

In modern times, waves of immigrants from Muslim countries have entered Europe. All European countries have been subject to islamization; the process of slowly incorporating Islamic values and Muslim customs into our way of life.
Far East countries like India, Thailand and China are experiencing the Muslim Jihad.

Israel lives with it.
America feels it.
Africa suffers under it, and is too weak from disease and poverty to resist.

It is suddenly coming to our attention that Islam is not, can not, and will never be integrated or assimilated to the values of freedom and democracy.
It is not only a religion; it is a totalitarian and expansionistic political ideology.
It is a moment of truth.

The current events unfolding all over the world are opening the eyes of us all. 12 drawings have touched the soul of the free societies: The right to speak freely without fear.
The drawings did not cause this. But they catalyzed a world conflict dormant since the birth of Muhammed.
Now we know what his face looks like. And we are still a majority on this earth to stand up to it.
The current events will eventually lead to either a 3rd world war or finally some sort of Islamic self-realization that has been 1400 years in the making.

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