Our frequent contributor Rick Moran writes on his site Rightwing Nuthouse of the importance of empathy and his reservations about publication of the Muhammad cartoons. Muslims don't just find these cartoons offensive. They consider them so far beyond the pale that the fact they exist in the first place is an affront to Allah and by not doing everything in their power to wipe the blaspheming cartoons out of existence, they would be complicit in the sin. Yes they do. Especially, the one showing the Prophet with the face of a pig and the one showing a Muslim bent over at prayer sodomized by a dog. But of course, those are fakes, never published in the Jyllands Posten, and apparently fabricated by Muslims interested in creating hatred of the West. But almost nobody, certainly not the rioters and not the American antique media, shows any interest in finding out who created and distributed the really offensive images. Rick does acknowledge that some Muslims are interested in stirring up...(Read Full Post)