Army of Dog

I seriously doubt that anyone reading this is in short supply of reasons to hate the U.N., but just in case, here’s yet another one.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned as “offensively anti-Islamic” a Dutch lawmaker’s film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence.

Ban acknowledged efforts by the government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of the film, which was launched by Islam critic Geert Wilders over the Internet, and appealed for calm to those “understandably offended by it.”

“There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence,” Ban said in a statement. “The right of free expression is not at stake here.”

Because by “free expression,” we actually mean “you’re free to say whatever you want unless the most hyper-sensitive group of third-world religious fanatics on the planet can somehow manage to take offense.” But wait, there’s more!

“Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility,” Ban said.

“We must also recognize that the real fault line is not between Muslim and Western societies, as some would have us believe, but between small minorities of extremists, on different sides, with a vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict,” Ban said.

I respectfully disagree, the fault line is between people who find it acceptable to saw the head off of a bound hostage with a dull knife and videotape it for propaganda or strap a bomb to their chest and blow up a school, and those of us who wish the other group dead. I think that’s a more accurate description of the societal fault line, but I’m just an Ugly American.