Rent-A-Riot ABCs

Everything reported about the Arab World should be looked at with suspicion because the dictatorship-sponsored lies are ubiquitous and enabled by the mainstream media. Iranian author Amir Taheri connects a number of the dots already noted here at IRIS for days:

The cartoons were published last September and, for more than three months, caused no ripples outside small groups of Salafi militants in Denmark.

In fact, the cartoons were published in October on the front page of a major Egyptian newspaper during Ramadan without any outrage whatsoever. As usual, it was a blogger who discovered this news.

In December, a group of Danish Muslim militants filled their suitcases with photocopies of the cartoons and embarked on a tour of Muslim capitals....The Danish Muslim group also did something dishonest ? it added a number of far more derogatory cartoons of the Prophet to the 12 published by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, and misled its interlocutors in Muslim capitals into believing that all had appeared in the Danish press....

The destruction of Danish and Norwegian embassies and consulates happened in only two places: Damascus and Beirut. Anyone who knows Syria would know that there are no spontaneous demonstrations in that dictatorship. (Even then, the Syrian secret police failed to attract more than 1,000 rent-a-mob militants.) And the Syrian government refused the Norwegian Embassy's request for additional police protection. It was clear that the Syrians wanted the embassies sacked....

The Muslim crowds that have demonstrated over the cartoons seldom exceeded a few hundred

Today, however, there is news that 100,000 Muslims to Vent Anger in London at Cartoon Protest. Of course, this is in a country where 50% of Muslims surveyed would volunteer to be suicide bombers in Israel and where the rest of the country is still in denial about the threat.

The fight between Denmark and its detractors is not between the West and Islam. It is between democracy and a global fascist movement masquerading as religion.