So, The Arab Street Has Finally Erupted in Violence

We have been warned time and time again about the "Arab street". We were told that the Arab street would erupt in violence if we invaded Afghanistan and again if we invaded Iraq. We heard this again about Abu Gharib, which the media reported endlessly. There were 28 front page stories about Abu Gharib in 30 days at the New York Times and today a Yahoo search of Abu Gharib detainees will recover 1,870,000 results. We were warned again when Newsweek published a bogus story about a Koran flushed down a toilet and there were violent demonstrations about that. Newsweek lied, people died! Still there was never anything that could accurately be described as the "Arab street erupting in violence" until now.

What exactly was the necessary provocation for this long awaited response. Some cartoons printed in a Danish newspaper over five months ago. You may not have seen any of the cartoons or perhaps saw only the one with Mohammad with a bomb shaped turban. I viewed all 12 cartoons today and they are absolutely innocuous. Yet newspapers all over this country are allowing themselves to be bullied into not publishing those cartoons. Freedom of the press will bow to political correctness as long as it is the Muslims who are upset. If Christians or Jewish people were angered by a cartoon their feelings would be ignored while they were chastised for being intolerant.

Leave it to Bill Clinton who apologized all over the world during his presidency to run to a microphone and join the PC crowd.

Clinton warns of rising anti-Islamic feeling

Bill Clinton, former President condemns freedom of speech. Former US president Bill Clinton warned of rising anti-Islamic prejudice, comparing it to historic anti-Semitism as he condemned the publishing of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.

"So now what are we going to do? ... Replace the anti-Semitic prejudice with anti-Islamic prejudice?" he said at an economic conference in the Qatari capital of Doha.
"In Europe, most of the struggles we've had in the past 50 years have been to fight prejudices against Jews, to fight against anti-Semitism," he said.

Clinton described as "appalling" the 12 cartoons published in a Danish newspaper in September depicting Prophet Mohammed and causing uproar in the Muslim world.
"None of us are totally free of stereotypes about people of different races, different ethnic groups, and different religions ... There was this appalling example in northern Europe, in Denmark ... These totally outrageous cartoons against Islam," he said.

I think you are missing the point Mr Ex-President. Anti-Semitism is alive and well especially in the Arab world where there is no hesitation to print cartoons depicting Jews as animals. Where news articles are printed describing Jewish religious ceremonies which require using the blood of Muslim children.