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Delusions  September 17th, 2012 - 12:00 am    I. Pretexts  Mr.
President, do not obsess over the pretext of the day. Terry
Jones is only as crude as Andres Serrano and his Piss Christ,
which I don’t recall warranted a personal call from the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs to the artist to cool it, much less a
federal effort to detain a Coptic filmmaker. Sometimes Muslims
will rage at a Rushdie novel, sometimes at a papal reference to
a Byzantine letter, and at other times at a supposedly flushed
or torched Koran. Or maybe a grainy amateurish video will be set
them off to kill a nun, blow up a priest, burn down an embassy,
or assassinate a Western ambassador.  There are three-hundred-
million-plus free-thinking Americans, and thus at least that
many possible “slights” — if you choose to go down that road of
blaming free expression rather than the primeval mind that
objects to it.  The opportunities for Muslims in the Middle East
to be outraged at the