A couple of months ago, Unicef Belgium started an awareness campaign for children in war zones. For this purpose, the organisation ordered a cartoon from the American company that holds the copyrights to the Smurfs. This cartoon shows the well-known little blue creatures singing and dancing around a camp fire. Suddenly, they hear the sound of heavy bombers flying over and bombs start raining down on them. Baby Smurf is sitting in the rubble, crying his little eyes out, dead smurfs lying next to him.

Unicef Belgium's intention was to shake us awake. If real pictures of real children in real misery can't shock the public any longer, then something else had to be done.

And the world WAS shocked and outraged by this "horrible sacrilege". One Dutch newspaper wrote: "Is nothing sacred anymore, not even the Smurfs?"
I think the cartoon was an excellent idea!

Yesterday, I was thinking about all the commotion Unicef's cartoon had caused and then the infamous Muhammad cartoons also came to mind. We in the West are now saying: "Do they really have to make such a fuss about 12 stupid cartoons? They're crazy!" But are we any better? Bomb the Smurfs village for humanitarian reasons and the whole world is appalled ... talk about craziness.

Have you read CNN's article on the Muhammad cartoons on cnn.com? I have, and once again CNN has shown its true nature. Instead of bringing stories in an objective manner, it displays a bias against Europe. The article states that several European newspapers have published the prophet cartoons to provoke and enrage Muslims even more. And at the end it says "CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for Islam. Of all the two-faced, back-stabbing sell-outs they must be the worst!!

Instead of showing support for Europe they're dropping us like ton of bricks. Remember 9/11? We were the first to send medical units, blood packs, etc. And let's not forget political support.

You could argue that the US didn't bring the September 11th attacks on itself. Well, let's see: unconditional support of the Israeli occupation, no military or humanitarian aid whatsoever for countries like Chechnya, not even a conviction of Russian violence against civilians (why should it, after all the US has no economic or strategic interests there), and so on. During the Afghan War, the US made Osama Bin Laden,  supplied him and his Mudjahedin with training, weapons and ammunition, even Stinger missiles. Then, on 9/11, America was surprised this had all come back to bite it in the ass. And yet the EU showed its sympathy.

Now that the tables are turned, American media are giving us the finger - "screw you, it's your own damn fault" - and at the same time they're showing Muslims how much they respect their religion. What a bunch of kiss asses. Trying to discredit Europe and to come off as the good guys. It makes me sick!!

I don't know about you, but I could really use a laugh after all this bad news. So here goes:

What's the difference between George Bush and a chimpanzee?  One has nearly the mental abilities of a human child and the other likes to eat bananas.

Protests in Brussels yesterday. Muslims demanding that no images of Allah or His Prophet should be made. Not by Muslims or anyone else for that matter. They think that the Quran applies to everyone, everywhere.

Wrong!! I have the liberty to choose my religion, my political party or my bowling club. It's called freedom of religion. It's a democracy thing. Even if I chose not to believe in God, no-one, and I mean no-one, has the right to tell me to do otherwise. Especially not some fundamentalist **** who's trying to convert the entire world, whether he's Jewish, Christian or Muslim. NO-ONE tells me what I should or should not believe. I'm perfectly capable of making up my own mind. And so are you!!

Like I said in Part one of this op-ed, the citizens of Europe deserve more than this continuing silence from our leaders. It's about **** time they start defending the rights of the people they are supposed to govern. Avoiding these "sensitive issues" will not solve the underlying problem, namely the intolerance of many Muslims. It's high time Islam evolved into a truly great religion, not just in numbers but also in wisdom.