Mohammed's Looney Toons: the recent cartoon controversy illuminates Muslim intolerance for debate and the danger of a growing Islamic population in the West.(EUROPE)

Flemming Rose, an editor at Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, sure can pick a fight. Rose is the man who published the dirty dozen cartoons of Mohammed, one of them featuring his turban shaped like a bomb, that sent Muslims everywhere into February's fine fury.

The gibbering over whether they should have been published aside, the episode is an unnerving commentary on European immigration policies. But perhaps Western political and cultural elites, who subverted Christianity and its culture with one hand and promoted its hostile and historic nemesis with the other, have finally learned something.

In their effort to erase the old moral order, they may have created a bigger problem than they bargained for. In their cities. In their towns. In their streets. It is rising Islam.

The Rage

Rose worries about Islam and its dampening effect on the vigorous exchange of ideas. He published the unflattering cartoons depicting Mohammed in September, supposedly because Danish artists were terrified of illustrating a children's biography of Mohammed. A Norwegian publication reprinted them, and the smoldering coal of Muslim malice toward everything Western burst into a global wildfire.

A dozen people died in Afghanistan, and five more died in Pakistan. Radical Muslims not only boycotted Danish products, but also attacked the Danish embassy in Tehran with Molotov cocktails, attacked Danish consulates, and rioted in Pakistan. An Iranian newspaper solicited mocking cartoons about the Holocaust. In Kabul, Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported, protestors attacked United Nations vehicles and property and shouted such slogans as "down with the USA," "down with Jews," "down with the Christians!" and "long live Islam!"

Raging street radicals attacked a U.S. consulate in Indonesia and American military bases in Afghanistan. In the United States, where nothing happened because we are not besieged by radical Muslim immigrants, some newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, published the cartoons. Muslims shook their fists outside the Inquirer when it published them.