The Muslim cartoon furor just won’t go away. “About 50,000 people, many chanting ‘Hang those who insulted the prophet,’ rallied Sunday in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi,” AP reports. Another 20,000 in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum chanted anti-Danish slogans and shouted “Allah is Great.”
We’ve all heard about the Al Qaeda video that denounced the Mohammed cartoons. The Pakistani press has stories like this one, “Cartoons rile U.S. college.” And today’s Wall Street Journal front-pages the latest absurdity headlined, “Blame It on Voltaire: Muslims Ask French To Cancel 1741 Play.” (No link for the unwashed unsubscribed.)
To all the rioters: Enough already! Does that sound too Jewish? Too New York? Too reasonable? How ’bout a coupla Jewish cartoons that won’t cause any riots ‘cept, to quote a friend, mebbe a laff riot:
