Current sparks of Islamic violence across the globe in feverish protest over a handful of stupid cartoons hammer home once again the reality that these guys need to find a hobby or something to distract them from a sense of aggrievement that always seems to be at near-boil.
And if the depiction in satirical drawings of the Prophet Mohammed can generate indignation of this kind, imagine what that says about the offended's ability to handle the marketplace of ideas that comes with democracy.
Maybe these ideologues are just too damaged to appreciate the splendid soil of free speech and artistic expression, which yields a marvelous bouquet of flowers, inevitably including some we don't like. Perhaps they need a thousand more years of race wars, interfighting, superstition, clannish paranoia, xenophobia and oppression to break the cycle of violence.
Or, maybe Oprah and Dr. Phil can lead a televised intervention to make them see what a bunch of homicidal, suicidal, misogynistic brain-cramped retards they are.
I can see it now:
Dr. Phil: "Now people of Islam - you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself, 'Self, do I like the direction I am heading in? Is this where I want to be? A bomb strapped to my chest about to blow up a cafe full of people enjoying a latte and some crumb cake?' Because I have to tell you, you look totally ridiculous."
Oprah: "You tell 'em Dr. Phil."
Dr. Phil: "The world doesn't like you. It doesn't like you blowing people and things up, draping your women in drab cloth, and it certainly doesn't like this sneaking around making weapons of mass destruction nonsense. That kind of selfish, careless behavior really pisses people off. And it makes Dr. Phil angry. You may not realize it, but people have noticed and they want to see some changes. Now what are you going to do to turn this ship of fools around?"
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Article comments
1 - Aaman
Good article, Dawn - will cross-post to Desicritics.org
2 - Dawn
Thanks Aaman, and thanks Eric for getting it up there, despite my screwing it up and pissing him off ;)
3 - DJRadiohead
Good article. Funny.
4 - Gordon Hauptfleisch
I kinda think I look good in my man-dress, but I don't accessorize with automatic weapons. Very funny article.
5 - Aaman
This article has been cross-posted to Desicritics.org, where opinions and mileage may vary, but a readership of thousands read gladly.
6 - Elvira Black
That was a bit naughty (lol)--and very funny!
7 - Eric Olsen
the issue really is the level of indignation and exceptionalism inherent in the Islamist viewpoint: it's a big world, yours is only one of countless viewpoints, get the fuck over yourselves
8 - hounddog
good article, very much to the point, to bad that muslims don't and can't undertstand it, when you start to get drilled to blow yourself up from the age of three, then your choice of using any intelligence that you might have acquired is very limited.
by the way the first time i heard the joke about mohammed saying there are no more virgins in their heaven was 45 years ago from a turkisch muslim, he had to go back to turkey, as his brothers were on the way to kill him if he didn't marry the girl (virgin?)in istanbul that was arranged for him when he was still an egg without a sperma
9 - hounddog
#7
Eric Olsen
dear eric, sorry you only learned bad language from the television, do you have television where you live?
there are many good and interesting things one can learn also, like: nature programms (where it hasn't been hurt by war or fanatics), music (classical and pop, and the whining of oriental sounds, some pleasant, some not, but all music is that way), the love for animals and plants (to love humans is a hard task nowardays, but it always has been that way)
you see eric you could get so much more out of life if you want to than using bad language