The year of the absurd, continuing

Western media already got tired of cartoon issue for the most part, but Pakistanis are still protesting. Three people got killed, and the protesters in Lahore burned down the provincial government assembly building due to severe shortage of Danish embassies. They also burned down Pizza Hut (although after the last time I ate there I somewhat share the feeling, if not the methods), Kentucky Fried Chicken and a South Korean bus terminal. Why the South Korean bus terminal? Beats me. Probably just burned it down as a symbol of Western imperialism. Anyway, it's the thought that counts.

Yesterday, on the 17th anniversary of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, Iran declared that the fatwa still stands and will stand forever. I guess people like to talk about eternal things on Valentine's day.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has visited OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu. Ihsanoglu asked for international legal measures against blasphemy.

“Unfortunately, people in the Muslim world feel that this is a new 9/11 against themselves. In Europe unfortunately Muslims have taken the place of Jews during World War II. There is a need for a UN legislation and clarification of existing conventions,” he said.

Damn! Jews were perfectly OK in Europe during World War II! Didn't the guy get a memo from Ahmadinejad? The Muslim world will never get anywhere if they all keep pulling in different directions: one guy saying that Hitler did not do anything at all, another guy saying that Hitler was perfectly right in organizing the Holocaust, and the third guy complaining about Jews and Europeans treating Muslims like Hitler treated Jews.

Cartoons a 9/11 against Muslims? Possibly, but since Jyllands-Posten spectacularly failed to set fire to any buildings, now they have to do it themselves. They are not doing a bad job of it, either, but they will have to riot quite a bit in order to kill 3000 of each other. Well, I have faith in them, eventually they might get there. Sorry, sometimes I am mean and callous. I just hope that the violent demonstrators really shoot each other and not the innocent bystanders.