Middle America's Worldview

I found this rather interesting. It appears NBC had attempted to put a show called "The book of Daniel". The show depicted a suppose christian family with serious issues. A dad that is a priest hooked on vicodin, a gay son, and a daughter is dealing marijuana to raise extra cash. Sounds like your regular family, right? I have to say I never watched this nor did I have a desire to. But I did receive the emails and heard others talking about it.

Here comes AFA calling to arms to contact the sponsors. Low and behold action was taken and NBC drops the show due to groups coming against it. The reason for the action to remove this show from christian and conservative groups?

"Conservative Christian groups condemned the depiction of Jesus as blasphemous, accusing the writers of portraying Christ as tolerant of sin in talks with the priest. Seven NBC affiliates refused to air it"

Now since NBC lost the revenue and probably pissed off about it, here comes a segment within Will and Grace. The story of Will and Gracehaving a segment having Brittney Spears as a conservative who hosts on a Christian TV network a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixin's."

Interesting enough, the conservative christian groups catches wind of it and again started to call on the sponsors. Now NBC is trying to say, they didnt know anything about it. Yet, everyone else caught wind of it and even played it on SNL during the weekend update.

Note the conservative christian groups means to show their dislike in a blasephemous view toward their God and Saviour? A simple to call to the sponsors. It had immediate, non-violent action and a impact that stopped the shows.

Now compare that to the muslim response to the caricatures.

It's became so bad that Danish Prime Minister Andres Rasmussen responded today to the
increasing Muslim violence over cartoon caricatures of Muhammad by saying,

We are now facing a growing global crisis. It now is something else than
the drawings... Scary.

Gary Bauer had a piece..."Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is, naturally, blaming Israel. According the Associated Press, Khamenei said, 'The
West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of
Islamic sanctities.' He then went on to declare the cartoons a 'conspiracy by
Zionists who were angry because of the victory of Hamas." For the record,
Hamas’ election victory occurred at the end of January; these cartoons were
first published in September of 2005."

Now, I agree there are a billion muslims and not all of them are going crazy over this. But you have radical islams taking this and attempting to rage their followers and recruiting riots. Unfortunately, it's working. I just don't see any other religion waving swords, decapitating heads, committing suicide bombings other than the the religion of peace.

In short there are many forms of power. I personally would prefer the power of voice, rather than the power of terror.