September 20, 2006
Mum's the Word, Lest We Provoke a Lethal Tantrum
James Lileks nails it (thanks to Doc Washburn for the link).
If you mock Islam with a drawing or a novel, you get riots and
dead people. News of mishandled holy books yields riots and dead
people. Insufficiently reverent short films by a Dutchman yields a
dead person, specifically the Dutchman.
Now we add this detail: Quoting medieval religious colloquies is
a reasonable justification for burning churches, shooting a nun and
holding up signs demanding that the pope convert to Islam or saw off
his own head. (There have been reports of carpal tunnel syndrome among
radical Islam's enforcers, and they have requested we all help out.)
This is a new twist: Now history itself cannot be discussed. Since
it's difficult to predict what else will enflame the devout, Islam has
to be treated with unusual deference, like a 3-year-old child with
anger management problems.
But it's not what we say that truly offends. It's what we are. The
West's lack of interest in joining the Ummah is an affront in itself,
and we broadcast our sins in High Infidelity. If you believed that the
West's apostasy was an affront to God, you'd spend your leisure hours
torching straw popes too.
Progressives at home and abroad seem oddly unconcerned.
"Islamophobia," after all, is just a product of the BushCo junta's
relentless fearmongering, and Benedict is the Nazi pope who personally
swipes the condoms from people's bedroom drawers.
But it's an inconvenient truth, to coin a phrase, when the ranters
show up with vibrating uvulas demanding the pope's assassination.
(Would they be satisfied with a docudrama version? It would go over
big at Cannes.)
Read it all. Read it again. Pass it around.
Source: "Jihad Watch" -
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013216.php
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I've been thinking along the lines of Heaven 17's
(we Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang updated to:
Have you heard it on the news
About this Islamofascist groove thang
Evil men with racist views
Spreading all across the land
[...]
Brothers, sisters, we don't need this
Islamofascist groove thang
[...]
Grab that groove thang by the throat
And throw it in the ocean
http://www.fulllyrics.com/lyrics/h/ Heaven_17/(we_Don_t_Need_This)_Fascist_Groove_Thang/
Cheers, Steve..
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