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.
