By Andrew L. Jaffee

My tax dollars go to support National Public Radio — so it can grovel before the angry Muslim world? NPR is busily feeling guilty and apologizing to Muslim radicals for burning embassies, killing, and rampaging over a cartoon — a… cartoon… Here’s a snippet from NPR.org entitled, Caricatures of Muhammad: From Insult to Crisis:

Commentator Shibley Telhami says the protests reflect Arab suspicion and mistrust of the West — and also how easily an insult can escalate into a crisis.

The truth is that the folks at NPR are terrified of the terrorists — and Muslims who tacitly support them. They should be. 9/11 (3000 dead). Madrid (200 dead). London (50 dead). Bali (200 dead). Amman (57 dead). 300 trampled to death in this year’s Hajj, 1,426 killed in the 1990 Hajj, 251 in 2004, etc. Sudanese Muslims have slaughtered 180,000 black Africans. Kuwaitis ethnically cleansed 400,000 Palestinians in 1991. The list goes on and on and on.

But there is a big difference between a healthy, cautious fear, and a mindless, weak one, with denial added. NPR and its ilk would have us signing Neville Chamberlain-like “treaties” with Osama (it is called “appeasement”). As Bob Marley said, “Know your history; in the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.”

Yes, please; we’ll do anything dear, angry Islamists — even give up our right to free speech. Just spare us from your terrorist wrath.

Special Report: Danish Cartoons

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Related: Arab/Muslim World, Islam, War Against Islamo-fascism, Political Correctness

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