All rage all the time, so much for dialogue, open debate and free speech

You can't reason with some quarters of Islam ever. They don't understand free speech or honest debate. How can you have a dialogue with these people? Every criticism seems to turn into rage. Of course the quisling New York Times is gushing forth urging the Pope to apologize profusely. Does Al-Q ever apologize? Does the Party of God every apologize?

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For my part, I am sick of "Muslim rage." Whether inspired by the pope or Danish cartoonists or the clumsy use of the word "crusade" by a Western politician, there is simply no defense for the behavior of these imams and their followers. It is barbaric, and everybody who is not barbaric or an unreconstructed apologist for barbarians knows it. The Muslims who commit arson and mayhem in response to some Westerner speaking his opinion -- and the pope, as leader of the Roman church, is exactly that -- have chosen to act as enemies of reason, peace, and everything that is good in the world.

And by the way fuck the New York Times. They wouldn't have the balls to stand behind Orianna Fallaci who understood that the fight against Islamofascism is a fight for survival fo the West. Boy do we need her now!

Glenn Reynolds is right: "'Baptist rage' certainly wouldn't get this kind of slack from the Times."