WE CAN’T DISRESPECT RELIGION, CAN WE? Not the ones that might behead TV executives, anyway. But won’t there be more of those with this attitude? I guess this is a test case on whether people respond to incentives, or have overriding moral principles.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “I wonder if Jon Stewart will mock CC brass for showing how so very small their gonads are.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Maybe Moussaoui can explain that this isn’t about giving offense:

Asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, “Make my day.”

He noted many relatives of victims wept on the witness stand, then walked past him in the courtroom and looked his way without crying. “I find it disgusting that people come here to share their grief over the death of some other person,” he said.

“I’m glad there was pain, and I wish there will be more pain,” Moussaoui said. . . .

In a lengthy explanation of why he hates Americans, Moussaoui said Islam requires Muslims to be the world’s superpower as he flipped through a copy of the Quran searching for verses to support his assertion. He said one verse requires Muslims “to fight against all who believe not in Allah.”

“We have an obligation to be the superpower. You have to be subdued,” Moussaoui said. “America is a superpower and you want to eradicate Islam.”

Well, not before, but he may put the idea in a few folks’ heads. At any rate, this war isn’t about cultural insensitivity or intolerance, or imperialism. At least, not on our part. (Via Althouse).