The following news clip from the BBC contains a litany of places where aggrieved Muslims took to the streets to protest the fact that Charlie Hebdo continues to publish “blasphemous” cartoons. Among the countries mentioned are Niger, Yemen, Pakistan, Turkey, and the Vatican. The protests reached varying degrees of violent intensity, the only exception being the Pope, for some strange reason.

It really sets my teeth on edge to hear the newscaster say “God’s messenger Mohammed”, without any qualifiers. Jesus would be called “the alleged son of God”, and the Buddha would be “the man considered to be ‘the awakened one’ by devout Buddhists”.

No scare quotes or hedging about the prophet Mohammed, though. He’s the real thing, according to the Beeb.

By the way — Muslim mobs are killing Christians and burning churches in Niger to protest the French Motoons, as if the editors, writers, and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo were Christians. To save their skins, the surviving staff could publish the truth: “Don’t kill us! We hate Christians as much as you do!”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video and annotating it with his commentary:

Below is Vlad’s commentary from the video, in a slightly different form: