I thought all the cartoons were dead on the money and you should all know that I laughed my frikkin' ass right off my self when I saw them. And the reactions from everyone else were......frightening and hilarious.
Ah, the Muslims. You just gotta love that culture. Check out the picture on the left. "Behead those who insult Islam?" Yes, yes, yes. I know. It's just the radicalized minority, right? Well, let's see. There are 1 billion Muslims in the world and if only 1 percent of those are radicalized then that's only 10 million people. Whew! I'm relieved!!Sure, I know we aren't perfect in America. As a matter of fact, we can be downright stupid assholes a lot of the time. But I don't think I have ever seen, here in the US, such a grotesque display of violence over CARTOONS as has gone on in the last two weeks across Europe and the Middle East.
One of the cartoons depicted Mohammed with a bomb on his head instead of a turban. Isn't it funny that that is EXACTLY what happened? They started blowing shit up! Talk about self fulfilling prophecy! For those of you who thought I was racist when it came to Muslim fanaticism, well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I was RIGHT and you were WRONG!
You gotta think twice about a culture that tramples hundreds of people to death in religious fervor AND gets so bent out of shape over a fucking cartoon that people are killed, maimed, and buildings are burned. Sorry, folks, but if we really allow these psychotics to own a nuclear weapon, we can pretty much kiss the world as we know it buh-bye!!!And here's a question for the Muslim population of the world: how can you expect us to be tolerant of your religion when you are COMPLETELY INTOLERANT OF EVERYONE ELSE'S RELIGION?
Basically these people are rabid lunatics and need to be put down. And here's the deal to all of you "moderate" Muslims out there: get with the fucking program and police these animals or we will do it for you. It is your problem and, if we have to do something about it, I don't think you will be all that happy with the WAY it is done. Why don't you start by enforcing these basic rules?
YOU are not allowed to declare death sentences on cartoonists or writers for that matter if they happen to say something you don't agree with. YOU are not allowed to beat the shit out of women and treat them like cattle. YOU will understand freedom of expression because it is coming soon to a theater near you........whether you like it or not.
In 2008, hopefully, we will have a President that will actually have the balls (or ovaries!) to stand up to your fanatical bullshit (i.e. not be financially beholden to you) and your life, as you know it, will be over.
And if all of you out there think for a second that I am out of my mind, last week an Iranian newspaper announced it is holding a contest to see which Muslim cartoonist can make fun of the Holocaust most effectively!
Fuckers.....
Whew. Now that I have gotten that out of my system.....let's turn to the other side of the "Evil Cartoons A'gin Us" news...
The cartoon on your left caused much uproar over the last couple of weeks, particularity with the right wing talk show host set (aka funny zoo animals making funny noises).Apparently this cartoon is disrepsectful to our troops. I think that it is pretty appropiate and fucking hilarious. I have talked with several men and women who have come back from Iraq. I know one that is currently at Camp Victory, a navy man, and he says that the lack of appropiate supplies and complete shortage of intelligence (i.e. planning) is par for the course in this war which makes this cartoon sadly accurate.
I will tell you, however, what IS disrepsectful to our troops. Our president recently paid a visit to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antoino Texas. His comments, which are available for your perusal on the White House Web Site, were truly irreverent piles of garbage .
Basically, he made a joke that he himself had been in combat recently....with a cedar tree!....and he won! But he got a scratch. Aww..... so I guess HE was wounded just like the rest of the troops there.Oh my Lord. A cut from clearing brush just totally compares with the soldiers around him with lacerations, broken bones, and missing limbs. What a toolbox. You really gotta hand it to ol' Shecky Bush. He sure knows how to slay an audience.
I guess what really cracks me up about this one is how all the neo-con douchebags got all bent out of shape about the Rumsfeld cartoon and yet the Muslim one is OK. Huh? They are both OK because it is called freedom of the press, bitch! You don't like it? Don't read it!! It's just classic conservative spin doctoring bullshit to call Tom Tole, the creator of the Rumsfeld cartoon, a traitor to his country.
So, by that logic, then all of the Congressional Republicans that bitched during the Bosnian Conflct should all be branded traitors as well. Right?
Anyhoo, I know that I, for one, am sooo happy that the human beings on this world are wasting precious time and energy yelling, throwing rocks, burning buildings, and killing people over cartoons when they could be spending that time and money feeding, housing and caring for their fellow man.Well, at least we have the NRA to teach our children about the joy of guns. Whoops! That's next week's column...
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Holy dogshit. I actually agree with the first half of that.
I noticed last week that CNN has decided not to show the Mohammed cartoons "because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself." I guess that would explain to me why CNN didn’t show those Abu Gharab photos right? Oh wait...my bad...those were shown all over the place. Nice double standard CNN, you PC pansies.
Noticed also that the Arab world understands Europe’s political correctness far better than Europe understands the Arab world. Criticism of Islam is usually described by Muslim spokesmen as "racist" (as if religious ideology is a biological given). Even more obvious, they have learned how to play on the politically correct citizens of western nations. When Muslim spokesmen deny the Holocaust, they defend themselves on the grounds that they are only exercising their free speech rights. But when they insist that images offensive to Muslims should be barred, they drop the free speech bit and argue on the grounds of multi-cultural sensitivity.
I love how many of the signs I see those people in those nations holding at written in perfect English. Hmmmm. It’s obvious to me that the governments of those countries are allowing those embassies to be burned down because if they didn’t want it to happen they would roll the tanks and guns in and get those people under control within 5 minutes.
I think moderate muslims in those nations know that they will be turned into dog food if they speak up against what is going on in their country.
Now on to the bullshit.
I don’t think the cartoon depicting the soldier who has lost limbs was appropriate at all. Using the likeness of a service member who has lost his arms and legs in war as the central theme of a cartoon isn’t my idea of humor as it is making light of the tremendous physical sacrifices some have made in this effort thus far. Whether or not you agree with the war or not, how can you call the GWB’s statements a “pile of garbage” yet call the cartoon “appropriate”? Sounds to me like they are one in the same – both wrong.
So when cartoonists put something controversial up, it's freedom of speech/freedom of the press. When anyone says anything back, it's an outrage?
All that being said, for all I care I think the paper should run the cartoon. Indeed they will be exercising their right to freedom of speech/freedom of the press. It will be interesting to see of they think they have some kind of freedom from the consequences of running it. Comparing the talk radio worlds reactions to the muslim garbage going on would make sense if some radio talk show host had demanded that the newspaper be shut down or the artist beheaded but I didn’t see any of that. Advocating freedom of the press and criticizing newspapers can be mutually exclusive.
Just in case you were thinking about telling us how democrats will solve anything in 2008, read below...AP story...Yesterday former Vice President Gore spoke before a "mainly Saudi audience" on day two of the Jeddah Economic Forum: Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.
Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications. "The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake," Gore said during the Jiddah Economic Forum. "The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States."
"Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong," Gore said.
Good work Al.
Well, I knew we would be in agreement on that one.
I made a decision not to reprint the cartoons on the blog actually for the same reason as CNN. The story is the reaction not making fun of a religion.
While I think that the Muslim religion has some serious challenges ahead with all of the violence being done in its name, in the end the story was the insane reaction.
The cartoon about Rumsfeld is right. People on the right need to learn that they have seriously fucked up shit in the last five years.
If a Democrat had done all of the things Bush had done, I would be saying the same shit.
Gore is full of shit, btw.
Well, now that there's a price on the head of the cartoonist(s) who drew the offensive cartoons (I can't believe it took so long), I think those people have a much better understanding of what a bitch personal responsibility can be. You can stand up and proclaim "It's my right" all you want....that's not gonna help you much when one of the thousands of people you pissed off slits your throat.
To me the compelling issue out of all this is how willing people (in particular, the people who are falling back on the "freedom of speech" crutch) are going to be to fight for that right. Are you willing to see people, your own countrymen, possibly, die to guarantee the right of free speech? Because incredibly, that's what this cartoon situation is becoming....a stand on principle, even at the expense of human lives. F'in joke, if you ask me. If I head down to Hennepin Ave and stout spouting "Niggah this" and "Niggah that", would anybody come running to protect my right of free speech? Doubtful. Nor should they.
I'm also getting quite tired of the "they don't represent true Islam" rhetoric. Like it or not, oh peaceful and passive ones, the protesters and terrorists are the face of Islam, every bit as much as the soliders at Abu Ghraib became the face of American disdain for Islam. If you expect to be treated with respect and compassion then it is up to you to be self-policing and stop the madness that the vocal, violent minority is perpetrating. That is the true measure of freedom.
Last paragraph was pure gold. I couldn't agree more. Thanks PL...
What's with all this agreement all of a sudden?
Oh well, it'll all go out to the shitter after my next column on the NRA....
I would defend your free speech on Hennepin Avenue.
Love, Crabmaster
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