Is Pam Geller too provocative?<\/p>\n
Geller – a long-time critic, it’s fair to say, of radical Islam and a fair chunk of the rest of Islam as well – has long been a lightning rod for the Political Correctness police, which isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. \u00a0I do think she goes to excessive pains to antagonize Islam.<\/p>\n
So, naturally, does the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which may have existed for a good reason at one point, but today serves mostly as the supreme procurator of the PC Police.<\/p>\n
Of course, Geller doesn’t go to nearly the pains that Chris “VIrgin Mary rendered in Elephant Dung” Ofili or Andres “Piss Christ” Serrano or Peter “Let’s Allow Abortions Through Age 1” Singer went to antagonize Christians, naturally.<\/p>\n
And Ofili and Serrano’s days in the artistic sun came and went before the Internet suffused all of American culture, it’s not a stretch to believe that some keyboard commando, somewhere, threatened them. \u00a0And I’m sure Singer – still a professor, naturally – gets some utterly rhetorical abuse.<\/p>\n
But last I checked, they’re all alive. \u00a0And no gangs of Christian thugs burst into their respective “art” exhibits or “classes” and handed down the mayhem.<\/p>\n
But Garland was one of many bloody attacks in the past decade on people who regard Mohammed with the same irreverence most Westerners approach God.<\/p>\n