Now What?!?

What are they whining about this time?

I don't care for religion in general, but I'm all for believers having their superstitions so long as they leave me out of it. What I can't stand, however, is mindless zealotry and fanaticism. In the latest example of religious lunacy, towelheads around the world are overturning cars, burning flags, and making death threats to European news paper editors because a Danish magazine had the guts to publish an editorial cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed with a bomb on his head. Sorry Abdar, but sometimes the truth hurts.

Bunch of humorless fucks. That's the problem with religious nutters. They have no sense of humor. They also have no brains. I thought American evangelicals were bad, but no one can hold a candle to fundamentalist Muslims when it comes to cognitive dissonance. Here's the deal. Apparently, it is big taboo in Islam to create an image of allah, the prophets, and most natural objects. This includes flowers, trees, insects, and other animals. What they don't seem to understand, however, is that that's their rule, not ours. It certainly doesn't prohibit the Danes or anyone else from drawing, and yes, criticising, whatever they please.

I used to buy into the notion that radical Islam was composed of a relatively small number of supernuts. Not anymore. A third of the earth's population not only looks like it's stuck in the fucking middle ages, but actually wants to stay there. My ancestors were northern European. They had a rough time of it back in the day and certainly weren't above laying waste to entire cities to promote their religion. But you know something, they got over it, let's see, about 300 years ago? Sure, we've had the occassional backslide into religious warfare - Northern Ireland and Yugoslavia come to mind - but for the most part the West has left religion out the equation since the Age of Enlightenment. (Now when we wage world war, we do it for a better reason - power and greed). Let's hope it doesn't take as long for Islam.

I don't believe that democracy can be achieved at the point of a bayonet, nor do I believe that the current American administration's intentions in the Middle East are pure, but as a culture, if we have to drag these clowns down off their camels kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, so be it.