In a tense television debate held between Israeli Ambassador in Washington Danny Ayalon and [PA representative Afif] Safieh, which was broadcast on CNN's "Late Edition," the Palestinian envoy was asked by host Wolf Blitzer to comment on the recent violent Muslim demonstrations across the world that erupted in response to the publication of caricatures mocking Prophet Muhammad in a Danish paper.Pipes, we should recall, is actually pretty moderate. He is the author, as I have pointed out before, of an essay entitled "The Evil isn't Islam." See this also.
Safieh replied by saying that his personal acquaintance with both western and eastern societies has led him to believe the pro-Israeli Likud's global wing acted to bring the western, mostly-Christian society to a collision course with Islam.
Stunned by Safieh's answer, Blitzer asked his guest whether he was serious, or only joking. Safieh then explained that the editor of the Danish newspaper that originally published the cartoons is a fan of Jewish right-wing columnist Daniel Pipes, and that the two cooperated in distributing the caricatures that roused furor among Muslims.
Tags: cartoons, Prophet-cartoons, Denmark, Islam, PA, Israel
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