Just say NO to blackmail

Islamic Jihad has entered the fray, to no one's surprise; it's reported in Ha'aretz today:

"So far we have demanded an apology from the governments. But if they continue their assault on our dear Prophet Mohammed, we will burn the ground underneath their feet," Habib said.

In Jerusalem, about 2,000 women, young boys and older men chanted "Bin Laden, strike again" as they marched around the Dome of the Rock on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, trampling a homemade Danish flag.

I think we ought to just quit trying — apologies from heads of quite decent, very civilized states who had no hand in the "offense" make me cringe, as do concessions by newspaper editors; tolerance, understanding, sensitivity have been tried. And none of it does any good at all.

Just quit dealing with them.

If the relatively few Muslim leaders around the world who are speaking out relatively softly against the current anti-West violence are right, and it is just a militant minority that is responsible for it, then all the more reason not to give in to them.

Reject blackmail.

Buy Danish.