Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Emotional retards

I imagine the handful of folks who check in here on a regular or semi-regular basis find my political and religious observations a bit tedious, so I'll keep this one mercifully brief.
While there are doubtless millions of Muslims who are horrified by the current frenzy over a few cartoons published in newspapers, the impression being given to the rest of the world is that Islam is a form of mental illness and its adherents are emotionally retarded.
A friend who was in Tehran for a few months around the time of the fall of the Shah observed that the masses in the streets who supported Khomeini had the political sophistication of children.
Sadly, nothing seems to have changed.

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