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Crazed Mobs of rampaging thugs left mystified as to why the world refuses to take them seriously.

Militant Islamic Mobs, have now once again demonstrated that there is nothing the people of the west can do or say that wont somehow be interpreted as an insult to some part of the membership of their all powerful religion.

You try to be nice, you try to engage in dialog with militant imams and their followers and where does it get you? Simple, you end up burning in effigy at the end of a rope in a crowd of thousands of angry out of work youths.

So you decide to make a movie to show the glories of the life of the prophet to the people of the west and where does that get you? Hostages taken in Washington DC, and later you and your daughter get killed in a suicide bombing as someone tries to “get even” for your horrid crime against their religion.

Swell.

So why does anyone bother to mention them at all? No one mentions the Amish, do they? Mobs of Mennonites hardly ever come up on the cover of Newsweek as they burn posters of the heathen temptress Britney Spears or Madonna, whose name alone would be enough to the Militant Mob to elicit some form of retribution. Like the Militants, the Amish want to live in the past; it’s just that the Amish aren’t at all bothered if you don’t.

You don’t see headlines that scream “Lancaster County PA, the hotbed of the Amish Insurgency” and its not because the Amish are better people than those who ascribe to the beliefs of the Militant Mob, its just that the Amish put their priorities on raising barns, milking cows and feeding their families instead of “getting even” for centuries of indignities handed down to them by the heathen “Auslander”.

The Amish also don’t hack your head off with a sword if you gaze too long at someone’s daughter in public. The Amish just smile at the tourists and go on their way even if they insult and shove them around. They live their way and we live our way. To the Amish, the winner of the “were closer to God than you are” contest is to be decided by God and not the local barn raising committee, which is just as it should be (if you ask me). Its not that your average Amish youth doesn’t occasionally want to firebomb a tourists car, its that they are usually too busy bringing in the harvest to spend time on such frivolity.

You see, the Amish have their priorities and the Militant Mobs have their priorities. To the Amish, feeding your family and taking care of your community is first and revenge comes later.

Much, much later.

To the Militant Mob, it’s the other way around. There’s never time to feed your family, but there’s always enough time to protect your family’s honor by burning down a church, destroying holy relics or killing a nun.

Yet its Militant Mob that wants the Pope to apologize for talking about rationality in religious thought and quoting someone from long ago. But is this really something that requires an apology? I mean if we all start apologizing for poorly thought out speeches to inappropriate audiences, the rioters are going to run out of things to burn before the end of the first week of this new policy.

If we were to establish a sort of “Maslows Hierarchy of Needs” for “Apologies”, can we establish that poor speechifying is at a much lower level of the pyramid than say, oh I don’t know, blowing up sacred relics – like this one:

Buddhas of Bamiyam - Destroyed by Taliban.

No one seems to be asking the Taliban to apologize for this, yet to me, and probably even the atheistic Chinese Communists, this would seem far more offensive to the “brotherhood of Man” than what Pope Benedict said.

Funny how Buddhists didn’t take to the street and start burning mosques after this affront. Well, I guess this is where that whole karma thing kicks in, but imagine if it had been the other way around and Buddhists had so much as looked sideways at anything in regards to Islam. Oh wait, we don’t have to imagine, because that’s pretty much what happened. 3000 years ago some crazy Buddhists had the bad sense of timing to build a shrine on land that would much later be under the control of Afghani tribesman who would follow an entirely different religious dictate.

Fools. Infidels. They deserve to die, its all clear to me now…

Or how about someone in the Militant Mob stands up to apologize for the fact that for most of the worlds Muslims, their best hope for survival and a future isn’t by living in the holy cities of the Caliphate in harmony with all of the sacred goodness of Sharia Law, but by living in the bosom of the “Great Satan” itself.

What the Pope said or didn’t say is of no consequence, because, well he’s the Pope, the leader of the Catholic Church. It’s only of consequence if you are Catholic. By comparison, I don’t give a rip if the Grand Mufti of Mecca puts a Fatwa out about not watching football on Saturday. I would if I was a Muslim, but I’m not, so I don’t care. But Muslims seem to care a great deal what the other religious leaders have to say, why? I have no idea. The Dali Lama for example, he's out playing golf with Greenskeeper Carl Spackler and can't be bothered with insults because hes pretty secure in his beliefs.

To the Militant Mob, it’s not what the Pope says that is the affront; its the mere existence of the Pope and the religion of which he leads that is the true insult to their religion. It seems that the Militant Mob can't handle the concept of the competitive marketplace of ideas and even worse, the mere idea that other people might actually choose a different way from theirs, is simply unspeakable.

I find it somewhat ironic that the Pope was making a speech about the place of reason in religious thought and that this extremely non-radical idea to us in the west and has now been met by a demonstration of the worst kind of irrationality by the Militant Mob.

“Pope Must Die says Muslim”.

Yeah. thats rational.

On second thought, I don’t think that the word “apology” means the same thing in English that it does in Arabic. Apparently in Arabic the word “apology” means, “Die in the worst way possible as quickly as possible”.

This reaction demonstrates to my non-denominational eyes just how right Pope Benedict was in his thoughts in his speech. It seems to me that the response of the crazed mobs and their knee jerk reaction have proved his point and as a result, the only apologizing that should occur is from the leaders of the mobs themselves, who are only too willing to call for large scale deaths and total war in response to a simple straight forward idea, as if that were somehow – rational!

Posted @ September 19, 2006 12:31 AM | Current Affairs

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