Universtiy of Illinois faculty member Dennis Fox compares the “rage” that Muslims are currently acting out by burning flags and buildings and by killing people over a handful of cartoons to the willingness of a U.S. soldier to die protecting the American flag.
In a screed written by Fox, he ridiculously says that soldiers who are willing to defend the “American flag sometimes become veterans perfectly willing to attack those who burn it.” I’m not sure where Fox gets his information, but I’m pretty sure that if American soldiers were attacking those who burn American flags, CNN would latch on to that one like a pit-bull until we were all sick of hearing about it.
The piece, entitled God, Muhammed, and the American Flag, is really nothing more however, than a trashing of religion summed up with the line, “When God speaks, blood flows.” Fox calls for Western moderation towards the way we encounter the Islamic world, but doesn’t mind throwing a few rocks himself at Western Christians and Jews.