{"id":2641,"date":"2006-02-08T19:02:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T02:02:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-02-08T19:02:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T02:02:43","slug":"a-conspiracy-of-dunces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/a-conspiracy-of-dunces\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conspiracy of Dunces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt <a href=\"\">opines<\/a> that Flemming Rose, the provocateur who commissioned the Muhammed-is-a-terrorist cartoons, can&#8217;t be accused of double-standards because he&#8217;s reprinting cartoons &#8220;satirizing&#8221; the Holocaust. <\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, Matt: wait until he decides to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4578534.stm\">David Irving in jail<\/a>, perhaps with a file hidden inside a cake. <\/p>\n<p>The point is that this issue has absolutely <i>nothing<\/i> to do with &#8220;free speech,&#8221; since the Danish government never tried to censor the cartoons. What it&#8217;s all about is <i>hate<\/i>, pure and simple &#8212; the kind of hate that precedes a war. With Rose bloviating about a &#8220;culture war&#8221; and a &#8220;clash of civilizations,&#8221; there isn&#8217;t any doubt about his intentions. The extremes, in this case, feed on each other. Somewhere, Osama bin Laden is smiling &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt opines that Flemming Rose, the provocateur who commissioned the Muhammed-is-a-terrorist cartoons, can&#8217;t be accused of double-standards because he&#8217;s reprinting cartoons &#8220;satirizing&#8221; the Holocaust. Not so fast, Matt: wait until he decides to visit David Irving in jail, perhaps with a file hidden inside a cake. The point is that this issue has absolutely nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}