Antonia Zerbisias goes nutso

World: Antonia Zerbisias goes nutso on the blogs posting the cartoons.

While Muslim religious extremists are rioting in the streets of Beirut, Gaza City and Kabul, Scandinavian embassies are being torched and Jordanians are deprived of their Danish feta over cartoons that were never actually published in any legitimate newspaper, the right-wing blogosphere has been staging its own "blogburst": the act of reproducing the offending depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. It's a "simultaneous, co-ordinated posting by a large group of webmasters and bloggers on a given topic," says Israpundit who, along with Michelle Malkin, who is like Ann Coulter but not as funny and not so skinny, are leading the cartoon crusade. Follow their politics and you'll understand why they're on this particular blogwagon: they hate Muslims. In fact, if they were to write about Jews the way they sometimes do about followers of the Prophet Muhammad, they'd be denounced as anti-Semites or Holocaust deniers. So it isn't surprising that some of their more eager acolytes have gone far beyond denigrating the fanatical rioting, which has, at deadline, claimed six lives and left hundreds of wounded. No doubt, the Kartoon Karnage Kapers are inexcusable, and threaten to escalate into even more senseless death and destruction. That's why the absolute glee with which this has been received by the online cons strikes me as so puzzling. Do they enjoy the blood sport of watching out-of-control Muslim mobs in the streets?

This piece is more embarrassing than her blog roundups during the Canadian election. The only glee coming from me is watching the media here and in the UK cowering like cowards, leftists who have to confront the fact that being apologists made things worse. The cartoons were bad in terms of religious offense on par with "Piss Christ" and the Virgin Mary covered in dung. The reaction has been off the charts out of proportion and has done much harm to the image of Muslims and Islam. I called this a social experiment where Muslims failed miserably, but there is another going on with the West. You going to stand up for what you preach or are going to give and give more? At some point, you will have nothing left to give. As for snarking about people's looks.. Not enough bags in the supermarket and liquor in the bar to make it look presentable.