I have a great respect for the Islamic religion and would not knowingly offend anyone and I am sorry if I caused any distress.
It's probably cheap courage on my part to suggest that Gillian Gibbons should not have apologized but have been defiant.
But like the global Muslim support for suicide bombers and calls for the assassination of cartoonists, and this demonstrates that Islam really is different religion, state, and culture in what emotions it inspires. I don't envy the job of apologists for Islam as a religion of peace given what has been going on in Sudan and in the suburbs of Paris.
The apologizers for Christians excesses are busy as Mark Steyn point them out.
If the real threat of death for allowing her student to name a teddy bear did not reduce the great respect that Gillian Gibbons has for that religion, what would it take to change her mind?
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