Muslims gone wild

I came across a great absurdity in a story about Muslims going wild over Salman Rushdie's knighthood. Amid the angry throngs and the flag burning and the chants and calls for suicide bombings and of course the expected death threats I found this:

"The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism," he told his country's parliament.

"If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so, unless the British government apologises and withdraws the 'sir' title."

Source

Benny Hill as a special guest on Monty Python's Flying Circus could not have devised a better farce than that statement.

They accuse us of being extreme and we're so angry about that we're going to riot in the streets calling for murder!


I wonder if the line was delivered in over-sized shoes and a rubber nose, or if he went with the "straight man" approach.

As interesting as that question is, here is another one:

If democratic candidates wish to appear tough while appealing to a broad spectrum of their base, then why don't they stand up for freedom of speech and enter the fray?

Isn't that a no-brainer, a two-fer, a win-win, a thought outside the box, and so on and so forth?