Civil disorder

So, once again the Mohammed cartoons are causing static with Muslims and left wing agitators setting cars and containers on fire in several Danish towns and cities, for the last four nights. Here in Århus, we're seeing a lot of arson and attacks on the emergency services with resulting arrests and media attention. The fire station just up the road from us has been sending out its fire trucks four times as much as normal all week.

I suppose I ought to say something about it, but really there isn't much to say. The cartoons were always a necessary reaction, they still are a necessary reaction and for as long as artists are threatened with violence and/or death for having expressed an opinion, then the cartoons will remain a necessary reaction. The news papers all reprinted the images which is what caused the outrage, but they did so because three men were arrested for plotting to murder Kurt Vestergaard, the artist who drew the image of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban in reaction to the murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland.

No amount of violence by Muslims or left wing agitators is going to change that and the sooner they understand that the principle of free speech is more important in this country than their precious ideological belief's, the better. In the mean time, their demonstrations of violence merely serve as ample illustrations as to their moral deficit.