That’s right ladies and gents, the wait is over, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief and mild anticipation as I announce that I now have my very own little corner of cyberspace on and by which I can spout as much drivel as I should care to.

I’ve moved a few posts from this blog over to my new one, but I will not bother moving them all, nor adding a redirect from this site to my new one. This is mainly because I am back in Australia now (i.e. not in Korea any more) and my blogging focus will therefore be changing. People who found this blog interesting (that is a hypothetical assertion I’m making obviously) may not necessarily find my new one so, ergo I won’t make you go there if you don’t want.

But if parchance you do want to see what the bruhaha is all about (assuming there is some kind of bruhaha out there) update links to http://hojuin.net/blog (’/blog’ is optional, you’ll get there in the end either way).

yes all these posts today stem from my reading a particularly interesting post (interesting for its comment thread mainly) over at Tim Blair.net.

This little gem was too good to pass up;

sorry jeffs, u got it wrong im a high school student.. surprised? im actually ten generation aussie. and so its not faked bad english.. its been refined over many generations.

Posted by proud2be@muslimah on 2006 02 07 at 10:58 AM

A bit of grammar and spelling and a demonstration of at least a basic grasp of Australian history (more specifically its chronology) will be necesary to pass this course.

Bloody good laugh though wouldn’t ya say ?

Pretty soon I’ll dedicate a category to posts like this, because I want to be more active in making them… there are just too many piss funy fruit loops on the world wide web that sombody shouldn’t be mocking them at least semi-regularly.

This dude is a prat, but reading his shit makes me laugh a lot, give it a look and see what you think.

On a side note this blog will be closing down in T minus pretty soon, I’ve got my own space all lined up, a brand new wordpress 2.01 install to play with and, with any luck a new place of my own to customise as I like (and mock losers like old mate here to my hearts content). See ya there (I’ll let ya know the URL when it is up and running, still not sure then that’ll be - but I wouldn’t leave the house if I were you, you wouldn’t want to miss it).

A Dutch Blogger has recently started a photoshop ‘parody Mohammed’ competition which, it would seem, is basically trying to see who can make the most offensive pictorial of the Muslim prophet Mohammed … and my god do they go at it.

Do not click if you are easily offended by gratuitous takings of the piss or liberal use of the Dutch language (most pics speak for themselves).

Obviously this is going too far, but then again so is burning down an embassy or murdering a priest, all’s fair in love and war no?

I’m of the mind that I should head down to my local mosque (if there is one around here - there must be I’d rekon) and try and get myself a little bit of exposure to western Muslim culture and thinking, because I’m getting the impression that since all my education on Muslim ideology comes from the right wingers in Syria via the western media maybe I do not have a clear picture of what a ‘real’ Muslim is like.

We’ll see … I doubt they’d let a white boy in anyway.

Michelle Malkin is leading the charge to create a road map to the cartoons which have raised the ire of so many right wing Muslims out there.

All the cartoons can be seen here, or this handy little snippet comes from Michelles own site;

Now for my thoughts:

I am not a fan of religion, I think it does more harm than good as it has nothing to do with spirituality but is rather a vessel by which smart but corrupt men rule dimmer, more suggestable ones, lets have that straight from the start - I am biased in that respect.

Over and above this I think modern day Islam is a particularly potent means by which evil men seek to rule, again, dimmer ones, and manipulate them into doing what they want them to (namely killing and maiming and generally being bastards). Yes Catholicism/Christianity (particularly more modern day evangelical types) are the same, but they are far less violent and thus more readily ignored. The only other marginally similar religion I see today is Judaism, but I think the Jews have a far more rational basis for their violence (if ever there is such a thing) whereas most Islamic fundementalists seem to just be wantonly seeking destruction and it takes nothing more than cartoons to set them off.

Am I taking a stab at Islam here ? … maybe.

I find it interesting that the violence (tactfully called protests by some) is mostly directed at governments, as though they have something to do with it. I think this is a telling factor in the question of why we can’t all just get along, if a newspaper says something offensive it occurs to these types that a government ought to be able to do something about it. In case you’re not picking up my poorly constructed point - a government in the real world should be no more able to control and censor what a newspaper says then I should be able to smack a Liberal in the face for being a twat - but it seems this is not the attitude of some of the Islamic far right.

To any government who has contemplated asking newspapers to censor these cartoons because some right wing dicks got their panties in a bunch - fuck you, grow a spine - to any that actually did ask - a pox upon your house.

To any newspapers who apologised for or withdrew the cartoons: see message to censory conteplative government. To those that ran them (in particular to the french fellows who ran the story basically entitled fuck you I can say whatever I want) well done, good show, keep up the good work.

To anyone offended by my thoughts on the issue - if you want to dialogue about it feel free I have not been in contact with any of the middle-ground/left wing Islamic folk … if you’re out there I’m keen to be enlightened, if you’d rather burn me at the stake and kill my family - you’re not worth my time to even ridicule … except to call you a monstrous wanker maybe.

Oh for fucks sake !!

It would seem our fundemental (emphasis on ‘mental’ as opposed to ‘fun’) friends in the Middle East have no sense of humour and could use a geopolitical lesson.

Honestly if you take anything (especially something as fucking pointless as a religion) that seriously you need a hobby, might I suggest truck dodging ?

It’s high time the religious fanatics of the world took a long hard look at themselves and their religions so they can realise it’s all a crock of shit and give up fighting about it.

But I don’t suppose anybody will listen to me on this one either - oh well.

hat tip to The Marmot (can he still be called that ?)