Diplomats don't make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments.
Marine Le Pen had invited about 100 diplomats to a luncheon earlier this month during a visit to UN Headquarters in New York. But only four accepted: the envoys from Trinidad-Tobago, Armenia and Uruguay — who obviously are of no concern to her at all — and the fourth guest, Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor.
To be sure, “Doonesbury” is a satirical cartoon, but the remarks are serious enough that we cannot publish the strip without more information, context and a response from Palin.
Anyone remember the Danish cartoon story? And how free speech was supreme at that time. Doonesbury is political satire. Sarah Palin is a politician. The writer of the strip is a guy named Trudeau, who has been doing this for ages - and he received an advance copy of the book. He is not lying.
History has a curious habit of coming full-circle. The forces that fanned Islamophobia after 9/11 have seen that manufactured Islamophobia convert itself to full-blown Christian Terrorism.
Our hearts go out to the murdered children's families and other victims of the terrorist atrocities in Norway. The serene island of Utøya is now a living memorial to this horrible crime. As the unreal events unfolded, and pundits linked it to all types of events in the Islamic world, Muslims in the West prayed, 'Oh God, let it not be another Muslim.' It was not -- and it is at this point that the media, intellectuals and politicians have to sit back and take stock and ponder over the nature of terrorism. Simply describing other human beings as inherently bad and incapable of expressing themselves can backfire, and backfire quite badly. This time, it is not only the rise of Nazism in Germany, it is the rise of Nazism in the whole of the Western world, and as before, humanity cannot live with it. It has to be challenged.
Let us compare what we know about the alleged perpetrator and the myth of 'Islamic terrorism':
The country that is widely considered to be the cradle of Western civilisation is bankrupt. Its bonds are now rated lower than any other country in the world. With a population of only 11 million, the country that was once regarded as an antidote to Turkey by traditional European powers is not even a shadow of its former self. Without discussing much about what led to this, let us see what lessons we can learn from this situation?
Diplomats don't make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments.
So, the Chicago Tribune censors the political cartoon strip Doonesbury.
The forces that fanned Islamophobia after 9/11 have seen that manufactured Islamophobia convert itself to full-blown 
The country that is widely considered to be the cradle of Western civilisation is bankrupt. Its bonds are now rated lower than any other country in the world. With a population of only 11 million, the country that was once regarded as an antidote to Turkey by traditional European powers is not even a shadow of its former self. Without discussing much about what led to this, let us see what lessons we can learn from this situation?
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