Letters to the Editor
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I'm sorry you are so afraid...
To each their own
Just substitute "Christian fundamentalist" for "Muslim" and watch the Saloniks break their own vows and go to Wal*Mart to buy a gun and canned goods for the coming apocalypse. Remember that fear isn't danger it's the anticipation of danger.
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but I won't be joining you in your diaper party. Have fun, but change often to avoid diaper rash.
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So, Does This Mean I Have To Stop Praying To Ward Churchill 5 X / Day?
Aw, hell, once I got the secret text message from Glenn I went out and bought one of the special GPS cellphones so I could automatically know where to face when praying to Ward Churchill.
And now all you people are saying we *don't* keep worshiping him? Then what's with the fact that 90% of Glenn Greenwald's columns are just reprints of Ward Churchill screeds with the note "He's So Dreamy" tacked on the bottom?
Don't make me think that our giving up our slavish addiction to Ward Churchill (May His Name Be Honored) is all due to the sage advice and razor-sharp logic of Golden Showers?!
Next you'll be telling me that we shouldn't all be doing our daily Shining Path meditations, either.
What? That too? What mythical right wing bugaboos are we supposed to worship, then?
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Zaynab & stamaknox
Zaynab is right about the Muslim distinction between making fun of religious tenets versus making fun of their Prophet. Thus, the video clip posted by Mr. Greenwald does not include content that gives rise to fatwas, death threats, etc. At least, not based on my experience after living in a Muslim country for almost a year.
I'd really love to see something besides your own assertion that Muslims are perfectly fine with any sort of ridicule or attack on their religion EXCEPT commentary about Muhammad.
But let's assume that's true. I cited numerous large bloggers who published the Mohammed cartoons. Why didn't they have fatwas on their heads?
Robert Spencer wrote numerous derogatory books about Mohammed, including with Mohammed in the title. Why aren't there fatwas on his head?
But make fun of the Prophet and watch out! I have never in my life experienced this same reaction from a fundamentalist Christian given the same level of insult to their Jesus. And I ought to know. I've lived in the Bible belt among the Bush-loving bottom percentile for way too long.
Oh, OK - so there's the Mohammed cartoon controversy and the Rushdie fatwa. What else?
So where does the discussion go if one thinks there are troubling differences between the cultures (for whatever reason)? Is the devolution of that discussion inevitable?
You're the one insisting (based on nothing but your own anecdotal impressions) that Muslims are vastly more volatile at religious offenses than anyone else. So what's the implication? Do we bomb them? Invade their countries? Detain and surveill them? Put them in interment camps? What?
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How depraved is Thomas L. Friedman?
This depraved:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7qkZ_w2oxM
He says, now, we needed to go into "that part of the world ... and say to them 'suck on this' ..."
Why couldn't they tell us this before taking the country to war?
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Even A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day
"If I meet these whores I will have the honor" I repeat, I will have the honor " to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam," said Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror organization.
I have no problem with shipping Madonna and Britney off to Waziristan. Add Lindsay to the list as well.
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The genius of the GOP
When defending the indefensible, it's generally a good policy to rely as much as possible on psychopaths. Where Petraeus has failed, a sufficient number of Podhoretzes, Dershowitzes, Kristols, Dobsons, Cheneys, Joe Hollands, golden boys, shooters, elephantmen, and people masquerading as fighter pilots and punctuation marks may succeed. If they don't succeed, they may at least create a diversion sufficient to allow the GOP to escape the consequences of its own incompetence.
Yep, crazy people, that's the ticket.... Given all the other mishegas we have to put up with in the modern world, who's gonna notice?
Lemme hear you say heh.
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You too, Anonymoose
Deserves a heh, of his own, doncha think? I mean, given he's lot nuttier about a lot more things. Special mention is always due a genuine polymath.
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Mr. Tilde et al Breezing Through
Is it something in the diet? Wearing tight briefs instead of loose boxers? Listening to too much Rushie or Michael or Sean? Did they lick all the lead paint off their G.I. Joe dolls when they were kids? I dunno, but it seems that the shooters, the Mr. Tildes, the Hornet Drivers and the Anonymooses of the world are always breezing in, dropping a few lines of the most off-the-wall irrelevant shite ("Just substitute "Christian fundamentalist" for "Muslim" and watch the Saloniks break their own vows and go to Wal*Mart to buy a gun and canned goods for the coming apocalypse) (WTF????), then leave the building. Jaysus, but I'd love to know what goes on in those seeminly vacuous noggins.
And when they do reply, it's always the old playground comeback ("Oh yeah, well my dad can pound your dad . . . " or "Oh yeah, well your sister is fatter than my sister"). Or the back seat whine, ("M-o-m-m-m-m, Jason punched my arm"), or the coulter-taunt,('Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah -- Jason is a homo . . . ). What is with these people?
My take? I think they enjoy the humiliation and scorn they get back. Nothing like a litle self-loathing, I guess . . .
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Why Waziristan nabalzbbfr?
"Waziristan" is in Pakistan, this guy is in Palestine.
Could it be that these places, and those people, are all the same to you geniuses?
Now that the Right is in the business of shipping people here and there, you need to make the arrangements for the last leg of the trip.
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@stamaknox
But make fun of the Prophet and watch out! I have never in my life experienced this same reaction from a fundamentalist Christian given the same level of insult to their Jesus. And I ought to know. I've lived in the Bible belt among the Bush-loving bottom percentile for way too long.
But apparently not long enough to have heard of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, who went on a 30 year rampage against the NEA for a single depiction of his Lord in a jar of piss.
Come on, take the advice of a guy who was imprisoned, persecuted and then killed by the Catholic Church for the lack of purity of his religious beliefs: Cervantes. "Comparisons are odious."