And so the daily newscasts continue to show the pandemic of muslim protest and violence the world-over. The face of Muhammad gets printed in a political cartoon — and now, each day, another consulate burned, a priest murdered, numerous people dead.

Eventually, I’ll find enough time to properly vent my frustration over how “these people” are behaving — and more upsettingly, how the world allows them to behave.

For now, suffice it to contrast their behavior with a similar example. No doubt, you can recall many — no, innumerable — occasions when anti-Catholic cartoons have been printed. Below is but one example of an ant-Catholic cartoon, printed when American Bishops in 2004 refused Communion to ‘Catholic’ (in name only) politicians/public figures who were known to be in a state of sin and who did not receive absolution:

This cartoon depicts a bishop (labeled ‘Vatican’) holding the Eucharist over a Catholic politician while telling him to “roll over” like a trained dog.

When myriad Catholics found this cartoon offensive, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights took the case to write letters of protest. They received a short, but acceptable, public apology.

You see? No marches in the street…. No burning of flags…. No vandalization…. No burnings or bombings of buildings…. No murders….

Even the present-day Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem — extant since the first Crusade — carries on its sacred duty to protect the Christian places in the Holy Land from destruction and defamation via political, economic and legislative (not to mention legal) means. Among other things, they have protected the Church of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (which houses the Tomb of Christ); as well as the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, which was going to be buldozed by Muslims to build a parking lot for a neighboring mosque, were it not for the efforts of these knights and ladies.

Just two cases in point to demonstrate how the Church Militant has evolved from warfare and bloodshed to arbitration in the political arena. And two cases in point to show, by contradistinction, how the Muslims who are rioting still belong to an era of animalistic barbarism, irrationalism, intolerance and incivility.

Time for them to stop harping about cartoons — and to start living in the Real World.