Some three months ago I posted about Danish cartoonists receiving death threats for their depictions of Muhammed. And, well, things have only gotten more intelligent since then, so it’s time for an update.
But first, this linktastic post by Jason Pitzl-Waters, which points to this Wikipedia summary of the whole damn thing. And this Christopher Hitchens quote. Now then, I’m all caught up.
Are you caught up? Twelve cartoons in September, ranging from funny to clever to stupid to offensive. Several death threats. Cartoonists in hiding. One closed embassy. Several nationwide boycotts of Danish products. Demands from the Arab League for UN sanctions against Denmark. Several violent protests. At least three embassies set on fire, one of them not even Danish. And at least three deaths during all this madness.
I’ll say that last part again. Twelve cartoons. At least three people dead.
In response an Iranian paper has started a contest for the best cartoon making fun of the Holocaust. So twelve Danish cartoonists break a Muslim taboo, and somehow this leads to a contest to make fun of Hitler killing millions of Jews. Oh, and the death threats. And three people dead.
Who are these people? And why do these Muslim fundamentalists think that anyone in the West should respect their damnable opinions? It doesn’t matter how fucking offended they are. They burned embassies. They issued death threats. They killed people. And they think the Holocaust is funny. Tee-hee.
They do not believe in civil society, human rights, or freedom of speech. So fuck them. Fuck all of the violent protesters, all of the governments condoning it, and all the jihadists grinning from ear to ear because everyone is up in a tizzy about it. Fuck you all.
I will say this for Christian fundamentalists. During all the Christ mockery of the last thirty years, they’ve never killed people over it. No one died over Life of Brian, The Last Temptation, Piss Christ, or The Da Vinci Code. They whined, they cried, they left their shit out in public. But they didn’t kill anyone for it. Kudos to them.
I have ambigous feelings about the death penalty. But anyone who kills someone over religious satire deserves to die, painfully and in public. And anyone who incites others to do so deserves to die. Twice.
And we in the West had better be prepared to pull the trigger. I think the whole “clash of civilizations” meme is bullshit, but these murdering fundamentalists obviously don’t.
The evidence indicates that Muslim findamentalists cannot take a joke and do not have much of a sense of humor.
Yeah, and thanks to Wikipedia for the lo-res pic of the cartoons or else I don’t think I would have seen them. Where’s the American press to offer a look-see? Probably scared, but I’m even more worried about the claims that the Danish journalists were irresponsible. Bah. Freedom isn’t freedom if it can be closed down by the will of the uncomfortable.
Fundamentalism was very Protestant and American interpretation of Chistianity. It makes little sense in a Islamic context.
Grand Aytollah Sistani has taken a pretty strong statement against the rioting pointing out it’s Political (and Syrian) motivations. Takes some guts to talk like this in the Arab world. Here is a blogger talking about him.
Link.
He referred to ‘misguided and oppressive’ segments of the Muslim community and said their actions ‘projected a distorted and dark image of the faith of justice, love and brotherhood.’
‘Enemies have exploited this … to spread their poison and revive their old hatreds with new methods and mechanisms,’ he said.'”
GetReligion has this to say:
Dear Sir/madame
I am so sorry to read your article which completely unfair.You do not want to respect the others opinion and this is your huge problem.I do not know if you are educated or not but it is better for you to change your mind to see the universe in a better way.
A-sh
I respect other people’s opinions , but I abhor their terrorism when it rears its ugly haed.
Ooops typo! I meant HEAD ! :)
I participated in the rally for Denmark a defended the right to publish something offensive…
….but I sure agree with these comments on the cartoons:
It’s sleazy and dangerous for politicians to be scoring points against Islam in a continent where Bosnian Muslims were being put in concentration camps until America intervened.
–an advisor to Jordan’s King Abdullah quoted page 28 of The Economist of Feb 11, 2006.
Dear Mr.Paul,
I do not know why you do not want to see the reality which is hidden under the cover of medias.those who just want to show muslems terrorist.you * d better go find the real reason.
A-Sh