To my shock and surprise the most popular page on my blog - recently - apart from the brief Instalanche in re Baen - has been my collection of the Muhammed cartoons commisioned by the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten (ou can check by looking at the relevant site meter stats if you really care to see if this is still true).
What is also fascinating (and yes I admit it is a sign of severe blog sadness / lack of life to check these things) is the pages that link to my page. Google of course does a good job, actually an amazing job since also provides my page to people who spell Muhammed as Mohammed too, but there are a lot of fora and discussion boards out there in the Nordic countries that link. This is no doubt what has driven Sweden to be the #2 country on my visitor origin list, and that is a surprise because I would have expected the rest of the Blogosphere to be interested in this affair. The fact that the Mainstream Media is so quiet about the subject is not a surprise, political correctness will always cause the MSM to dodge this issue, but apart from the "usual suspects" such as the Gates of Vienna and Dhimmi Watch few of the "big" blogs seem to be saying much. Technorati shows a few interestingposts though and the issue is failing to die down because the Muslims really can't understand why the Danes don't grovel and apologise like the rest of the west does. One wonders whether the Danes have a racial memory of Danegeld and as Kipling so memorably put it:
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.
Anyway here's hoping the rest of the world outside the Nordic region learns the same lesson. I wonder whether any British or American media outlet would be willing to copy my post for example so that their countrymen could see just what has the Muslims knickers in a twist.