This hits home:
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s kleptocrat strongman, destroyed a mosque the other day. It was in Hatcliffe Extension, a shantytown on the edge of Harare, razed by the "police." Mr. Mugabe is an equal-opportunity razer: He also bulldozed a Catholic-run Aids center.
Hmm. Why wasn’t this front page news in the Left leaning MSM’s?
The point is the world’s Muslims seem entirely cool with Infidel Bob razing a mosque. Unlike the fallout over Newsweek’s fraudulent story about the Koran being flushed down a toilet, no excitable young men went bananas in Pakistan; no Western progressives berated Mr. Mugabe for his "cultural insensitivity." And sadly most of the big-shot Muslim spokespersons were still too busy flaying the Bush administration to whip their subjects into a frenzy over Hatcliffe Extension’s pile of Islamic rubble.
You tell ’em, Mr. Steyn. Check my archives for this category, and you will see this is nothing new. Desecration of icons, religious or otherwise, seems to be just fine as long as it isn’t the US doing it, which was, of course, made up.
That’s because we’re the “good guys” Teach! Silly man…