Tuesday, February 14, 2006

A brief comment on Ann Coulter's use of the word "raghead"

It was a bit boorish, to be sure, but speaking as a person with a piece of cloth on his head, I don't think that Coulter's statement had the verve to be truly offensive. Nor is she guilty of "playing into the hands of the Jihadists" or somesuch. The sentence for which she was fired from the National Review Online after 9/11 ("We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.") seems more provocative. Here's the deal: it's a big sloppy, unruly, free-wheeling, and sometimes boorish (and sometimes worse than boorish) world that we live in. Islam simply has a much higher profile than it used to. We could not pretend that we live in a realm of seamless respect for Islam if we wanted to. Some guy in some obscure newspaper in Denmark somewhere is always going to give the game away. If Muslims don't get used to it, they are going to blow their chance of taking over the world.

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