There was a big kerfuffle two weeks ago about some drawings of Muhammed in a Danish newspaper. I usually avoid weighing in on religious subjects because it might cause family disruption. One sister and my brother are very religious; so are my parents. I am not. In this case, though, the subject is really only tangentially religious and a discussion of it will be illustrative. Please pardon the pun. If you haven't seen the cartoons that appeared in Jyllands-Posten, I'll be reprinting them here.
When viewed in conjunction with the recent speech given by Donald Rumsfeld to the Council on Foreign Relations, it will help to explain why the West is losing the war on irreducible fundamental Islam. I'll explain this later.