Danish cartoonists insulted Muslims; therefore, Muslims must now insult Jews?

After a Danish newspaper published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad almost a year ago, I wrote this article defending its right to do so. But I also made a point of expressing solidarity with Muslims who reacted to the caricatures with non-violent moral indignation, initially.

Unfortunately, when they proceeded to orchestrate violent protests all over the world that seemed motivated more by political than religious concerns, I was also constrained to write the following:

My record of support for Muslims seeking to hold (Muslim and non-Muslim) leaders accountable for social, economic, political and religious discrimination against Muslims is beyond reproach. But my support does not extend to those who pervert their own religion for a polyglot babel of political purposes – as seems to be the case with the vast majority of Muslims now rummaging, pillaging and killing in the name of Islam.

Now the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the self-proclaimed defender of Islam, has removed all doubts about what motivated Muslims to react so violently to the caricatures of Muhammad. Because, by perverse reasoning only an anti-Semite could fashion, a state-run Iranian newspaper opened an exhibition in Tehran yesterday featuring caricatures of the Holocaust, which it billed unabashedly as:

…a response to the outrage caused among Muslims last year by Western caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.