The Mohammad Cartoons

The kerfuffle concerning a Dutch paper running depictions of Mohammad is an interesting study. Europe seems to be in the secondary stages of a schism that was inevitable with regard to social freedoms and Muslim emigres.

Anyway, the Muslim world has shown once again why the world thinks they are radical and dangerous. The entire Muslim world that is, with the exception of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani:

In Iraq, the country’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, decried the drawings but did not call for protests.

“We strongly denounce and condemn this horrific action,” he said in a statement posted on his Web site and dated Tuesday.

Al-Sistani, who wields enormous influence over Iraq’s majority Shiites, made no call for protests and suggested that militant Muslims were partly to blame for distorting Islam’s image.

He referred to “misguided and oppressive” segments of the Muslim community and said their actions “projected a distorted and dark image of the faith of justice, love and brotherhood.”

Dave Justus has more.