For cryin' out loud...

Here's what I can't stand about the folks who take to the streets about this or Danish cartoons, or whatever. They run around protesting, rioting, threatening to kill people, ACTUALLY killing people, etc. etc. every time someone does something to offend them. Publish a cartoon they don't like? Riots and mayhem. Write a book they don't like? Death sentence, riots and mayhem. Make someone a knight whose book they don't like? Death sentences, riots, and mayhem.

At the same time, they (and this is a very broad "they", perhaps overly broad) elect a president (Iran) that openly talks of the destruction of Israel and denies the Holocaust, elect a terrorist organization (Hamas) that has actually killed many, many people to run a government (Palestinian Authority), burn our flags in the street, chant "Death to America" (or whoever else they're pissed at) like it was as commonplace and inoffensive as "Let's Go Mets," and a myriad of other things infinitely more offensive to the West or Israel than anything they go bonkers about.

Yet we're supposed to let them be. In the meantime, they can pronounce death sentences and ransack places in response to a cartoon or a book. WTF? Its so one-sided its impossible to take seriously. The inability to see another's perspective is reminicent of childhood development, where a kid below a certain age just CAN'T look at things from another's point of view. And yet these are adults.

You want to be treated like adults? Like men? Like sovereign nation-states with legitimate grievances? Then stop acting like whatever you do is A-OK, while taking deadly offense to every little thing someone else does! No wonder nobody takes to you seriously (except as violent threat)! No wonder the world looks at you as unreasonable wackos.

End of rant.