Monday, February 06, 2006
Comedy is the Greatest Weapon!
Isnt Comedy the truly Greatest Weapon in a Anarchistic Subversive's arsenal?? Or even in an Anarchistic Subversive's arse for that matter. I've been scouring the web today to keep tabs on the escalating furore about the Mohammed Cartoons and becoming increasingly alarmed. Until i came across a comment in an otherwise very serious intelligent commentary in the Scottish Sunday Herald which got my sardonic twisted knickers in a real frenzy: to paraphrase, the writer said if only the Czech Republic would publish the cartoons and then maybe Hamas would feel compelled to boycott Semtex....oh joy to the world of sardonic cynics!This whole cartoon commotion is like the aftermath of a globally staged football match between the BLTs (the Bacon & Lettuce & Tomato sandwichers? or the Bin Laden Terrorist Sympathisers?) and the DPFCs (the Double Portion of Fish & Chips? or the Defenders of the Press's Freedom to Criticise?). And the BLTs lost. Sadly the ensuing hothouse rampage cant be put down to just blind-drunk football hooligans who are bad losers. Its so much bigger than that. But actually, peel away the onion skins and we're quite close. Not the whole inchilada because both teams in this global mishmash draw the line in different places. In fact, only one team draws the line anywhere and the other doesnt draw a line at all. As far as the SPECs are concerned, its a free-for-all which both exposes everyone ( from Top Dog Political/Religious Executive down the whole social food chain) to ridicule and in return, playing fair, ensures that the Ridiculed Top Dog has the inalienable right to retaliate, NON-VIOLENTLY!
The BLTs draw the line squarely when it comes to publicly ridiculing their Prophet and the reprisal is a free-for-all festival of indiscriminate war-mongering.
But oh you BLTs arent you the first to cross that line?? Every time you blow yourselves up together with hundreds of innocent civilians in the name of God, Islam and your Prophet Muhammed. What part of "DONT KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE" do you not understand?
Okay lets give the non-BLTs a chance. The masses of moderate peace-loving muslims who detest violence and indiscriminate killing. What have you done to stop it? How many peaceful protest marches have you staged in your countries, demanding your governments hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to trial as mass murderers (of course! cant bring the suicide bombers themselves to trial- a very clever but slightly OTT way of avoiding arrest). But what about the masterminds behind the Bombers? If Bin Laden and his ilk couldnt after all this time since 9/11 be sniffed out in the peace-loving muslim world of XXXXX billions, then the BLTs must be in the majority. Which means that the peace-loving Islamic world has been hijacked and set on a Kamikaze course. Which means that Islam as a peace-loving reformist movement is defunct. Which means we're not dealing with muslims anymore but a potent and lethal hybrid of politically marginalised tribes of uneducated hooligans. And the only difference between them and brainless football hooligans is that you cant call them lager louts because supposedly they dont drink. God, imagine if alcohol was halal! Karl Marx said "Religion is the Opium of the People"> He meant by that, religion stupefies the masses into a deluded subservience. What substance-abuse are the BLTs guilty of? Beats me.
I am desperately sad. In 20 yrs of studying Islam I thought maybe this ideology was the bridge between extreme other-worldliness and extreme hedonism; the medium between selfish capitalism and the individual-crushing communism. At the end of the day, its become just another religion. And how many wars have been waged in the name of religion? ..Or in the name of economics? ..Or in the name of protecting/appropriating natural resources....?..Or in the name of defending the right to be properly represented in cartoons....OOOFFF...bollocks.
Read a very Reasonable Review here
Today's "Give us This Day Our Daily Gin" Quote: " Noah's ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic was built by professionals"
# posted by C.S.Lawrence : 3:36 PM
Isnt Comedy the truly Greatest Weapon in a Anarchistic Subversive's arsenal?? Or even in an Anarchistic Subversive's arse for that matter. I've been scouring the web today to keep tabs on the escalating furore about the Mohammed Cartoons and becoming increasingly alarmed. Until i came across a comment in an otherwise very serious intelligent commentary in the Scottish Sunday Herald which got my sardonic twisted knickers in a real frenzy: to paraphrase, the writer said if only the Czech Republic would publish the cartoons and then maybe Hamas would feel compelled to boycott Semtex....oh joy to the world of sardonic cynics!This whole cartoon commotion is like the aftermath of a globally staged football match between the BLTs (the Bacon & Lettuce & Tomato sandwichers? or the Bin Laden Terrorist Sympathisers?) and the DPFCs (the Double Portion of Fish & Chips? or the Defenders of the Press's Freedom to Criticise?). And the BLTs lost. Sadly the ensuing hothouse rampage cant be put down to just blind-drunk football hooligans who are bad losers. Its so much bigger than that. But actually, peel away the onion skins and we're quite close. Not the whole inchilada because both teams in this global mishmash draw the line in different places. In fact, only one team draws the line anywhere and the other doesnt draw a line at all. As far as the SPECs are concerned, its a free-for-all which both exposes everyone ( from Top Dog Political/Religious Executive down the whole social food chain) to ridicule and in return, playing fair, ensures that the Ridiculed Top Dog has the inalienable right to retaliate, NON-VIOLENTLY!
The BLTs draw the line squarely when it comes to publicly ridiculing their Prophet and the reprisal is a free-for-all festival of indiscriminate war-mongering.
But oh you BLTs arent you the first to cross that line?? Every time you blow yourselves up together with hundreds of innocent civilians in the name of God, Islam and your Prophet Muhammed. What part of "DONT KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE" do you not understand?
Okay lets give the non-BLTs a chance. The masses of moderate peace-loving muslims who detest violence and indiscriminate killing. What have you done to stop it? How many peaceful protest marches have you staged in your countries, demanding your governments hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to trial as mass murderers (of course! cant bring the suicide bombers themselves to trial- a very clever but slightly OTT way of avoiding arrest). But what about the masterminds behind the Bombers? If Bin Laden and his ilk couldnt after all this time since 9/11 be sniffed out in the peace-loving muslim world of XXXXX billions, then the BLTs must be in the majority. Which means that the peace-loving Islamic world has been hijacked and set on a Kamikaze course. Which means that Islam as a peace-loving reformist movement is defunct. Which means we're not dealing with muslims anymore but a potent and lethal hybrid of politically marginalised tribes of uneducated hooligans. And the only difference between them and brainless football hooligans is that you cant call them lager louts because supposedly they dont drink. God, imagine if alcohol was halal! Karl Marx said "Religion is the Opium of the People"> He meant by that, religion stupefies the masses into a deluded subservience. What substance-abuse are the BLTs guilty of? Beats me.
I am desperately sad. In 20 yrs of studying Islam I thought maybe this ideology was the bridge between extreme other-worldliness and extreme hedonism; the medium between selfish capitalism and the individual-crushing communism. At the end of the day, its become just another religion. And how many wars have been waged in the name of religion? ..Or in the name of economics? ..Or in the name of protecting/appropriating natural resources....?..Or in the name of defending the right to be properly represented in cartoons....OOOFFF...bollocks.
Read a very Reasonable Review here
Today's "Give us This Day Our Daily Gin" Quote: " Noah's ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic was built by professionals"
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