Prophet-sharing

It looks like the story about the Danish newspapers pubishing cartoons of the Moslem prophet Mohammed is getting some legs - some exposure in the main stream media. It didn't imagine that the issue would get so big, that the reaction of the Islamic world would be so overblown.

As I commented at Tim Blair's site:

It sort of looks to me like a “tipping point” of sorts, or at least a wake-up call for a host of interested parties - MSM, moderate Moslems, EU/UN axis and other enabling lefties.

I mean, it’s just cartoons for chrissakes! Kids’ stuff. And so the over-reaction will get a lot more attention. Hopefully followed by some soul-searching and clear-thinking. (The optimist in me thinks that. The pessimist in me reminds the optimist that I’ve thought something similar several times already, but have been disappointed.)

This tipping-point idea was carried further in this post in a blog that's new to me.

I hope it's clear that I'm not calling for continued war and violence. What I'm hoping will become of this is a greater recognition among those parties that this fundamentalist knee-jerk reaction is unsuited to the modern world - not worth the pain - and that the Wahabbist influence will go into decline once and for all.

Islam wasn't always so intolerant. It's really just a recent phenomena. (as this gallery of Mohammed images demonstrates). So I'm hopeful that the global Islamic culture is not too far gone to come back to the moderation and toleration of which they have shown historically to be capable.

Wake up! Wake up!!