Who Will Be Islam's Next Victim?

If people do not resolve the "Liberal Dilemma", we know "what will be". Let's call it what it is.

Today Yemeni prosecutors have called for an editor's death. Anyone surprised?

"Yemeni prosecutors have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says.
Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his publication, the Yemen Observer, showed the Danish cartoons in February.

He denies the charges of offending Islam, under which he is being tried."

Indeed, Muhammad, the editor, printed the cartoons--I might add loooooong after they had already been published in the Saudi press and circulated around the world-- as a means of reporting the Cartoon Jihad story. And so we see the scope of sharia freedom of expression and taqqiya.

"The paper's website reported that the prosecution lawyers cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer."

Sorry, Muslims but a few drawings offend YOU? I find barbarism offensive.

Now let's talk about THAT precedent. That is such backward momentum. I Doubt I'll see the National Organization Of Women speak up in this editor's defense on those grounds. Here's a precedent from Scripture that is more fitting to our society.

John 8:4-11

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"No one, sir," she said.

"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

Put in perspective, we in America enjoy the benefit of innocence until proven guilty. AND if guilty we understand what precipitates and influences these so-call "crimes" and we even protect those charged with a "crime" from injustice.

I'm a proud American. We have the best life. And as Norway will soon find out, blasphemy laws cannot not be enforced because one man's blasphemy is another man's evangelism.

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