Freedom of Expression is Western Terrorism. That's right -- from the tres-twisted perspective of the Islamists, expressing your opinion, via the written or spoken word (or a cartoon) is equivalent to blowing up a busload of infidel commuters, or flying a jetliner into a skyscraper full of innocent people.
This analogy seems a little out of whack, to say the least....until you consider that Muslim feelings are very,very sensitive. We're talking Princess and the Pea sensitive. In fact, Muslim feelings are so sensitive that if, for instance, you were to suggest to the average wife-beating halal enthusiast that Mohammed was a semi-literate con man who pulled off a colossal fraud at the expense of 1.4 billion credulous dupes....well, you might as well be sticking bamboo splinters under his fingernails. It's that painful for him. (In fact, I'm sorry I just suggested that!)
Oh, those Tender Muslim Feelings!
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Some sensitive Muslims making us free speech "terrorists" feel very ashamed of ourselves.
3) The more obvious the fraud, the more violently it must be defended. Some suggest that perhaps, on some level, many Muslims realize that their religion's truth-claims are a little iffy -- and therefore Islam requires this sort of violent, hair-trigger response in order to survive its frequent collisions with reality. The self-serving chicanery of the prophet Mohammed was pretty obvious to any ten-year-old who was paying attention. Even his child-bride, Aisha, and one of his uncles, commented on it. Perhaps only the father of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, was a more obvious fraud. (And only by a slight margin.) No doubt, some of the better-informed Muslims are secretly wrestling with doubt -- which expresses itself in rage whenever outsiders show a lack of respect for their rickety ideology.
However, my guess is that the average Muslim does not possess this sort of insight, because the world of Islam is incredibly insular, and critical thinking is definitely not encouraged. In many Muslim countries, if you openly abandon Islam, or express doubts regarding its veracity, the government will execute you for it. (If your family doesn't do it first, that is.) Even in the West, political correctness prevents most infidels from attacking the truth-claims of Islam. The result is that most Muslims are never exposed to much in the way of religious criticism. Everyone they encounter is spouting the same bullshit....or they're not saying anything. (Just as the Prophet Mohammed intended.)
Why are they so sensitive? How could thuggish brutes -- whose idea of a spectator sport is watching a woman being stoned to death in a soccer stadium -- be so thin-skinned when it comes to criticism of their religion? How could guys who are willing to strap on explosives and blow themselves up in a disco full of Israeli kids be so hyper-sensitive about unkind words directed at Islam?
I think there are several explanations for this -- all of which come into play when Muslims throw their violent temper tantrums.
1) The devout Muslim's inherent disdain for nonbelievers. One of the central themes that keeps cropping up in the Koran is that those who reject Islam are godless scum -- kafirs who are despised by Allah. And the True Believer, taking his cue from Allah, also fucking hates kafirs. Hates, hates, hates 'em. So he doesn't want to hear any shit regarding his precious religion from those evil, fornicating, soon-to-be-roasting-in-hell kafir bastards. (Who he hates.)
2) Souls are on the line. Another reason for Ahmed's sensitivity to religious criticism is the "fact" that any Muslim who's led astray by smart-alecky infidels will miss out on all that hot sex action in Paradise. For many Western men, one brief three-way is the dream of a lifetime -- but Ahmed has earnest hopes for a seventy-three-way....that lasts for eternity. (Prudish Christian puppet-masters take note: this is how you motivate the fellas!) In fact, missing out on the Seventy-Two Virgins Buffet makes burning in hell seem a little redundant, IMO. Bottom line for Ahmed: reason and skepticism (or rival superstitions) will get your ass into some serious difficulties in the afterlife. Therefore, it's really important that he be insulated from the critical thinking (and religious fantasies) of outsiders.
On one level, this site is my way of telling angry Muslims that they can damn well piss off! -- because, at this point, some of us really don't give a damn if they're insulted. Islam itself is deeply insulting, to all decent, progressive-minded people. Islam is a problem that needs to be dealt with, publicly and honestly. Polite silence will not get the job done. So the childish, tantrum-throwing, hypersensitive types need to just shut the hell up for five minutes, and let the grown-ups do some talking.
Sorry to be so insensitive and all. But, in the real world, there are other things that actually matter, besides the god-damn precious feelings of Muslims. It matters that their religion is a black hole of moral depravity, masquerading as something holy. It matters that Muslim women are still treated like chattel in the 21st century. It matters that Islam motivates terrorists and assassins around the world. And it really matters that the forces of Islam are steadily eroding the core freedoms that form the backbone of the civilized world -- freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Providing further proof that the only honest Muslim (regarding the subject of Islam, anyway) is a former Muslim, Ibn Warraq, author of Why I Am Not a Muslim, said the following in response to the Fitna fiore: "It is perverse for the western media to lament the lack of an Islamic reformation and willfully ignore works such as (Geert) Wilders' film, Fitna. How do they think reformation will come about if not with criticism? There is no such right as 'the right not to be offended'; indeed, I am deeply offended by the contents of the Koran, with its overt hatred of Christians, Jews, apostates, non-believers, homosexuals but cannot demand its suppression." (Overwrought bold italics are mine.)
Muslims will just have to get used to infidels talking smack about their stupid religion, because their efforts to silence their critics have recently begun to backfire on them. (In some places, anyway.) People are getting pissed off about having their essential liberties threatened by a pack of angry, bearded zealots whom time and enlightenment have passed by. And those people are starting to push back. Let's hope this nascent trend continues.
Better still, let's all do our part to make sure that it does.
4) Being a Muslim costs you. I think it's likely that Muslim intolerance for criticism is heightened by the fact that they give up a lot to be part of that system. They've got a lot invested in the franchise, so they want to see it prosper. Ahmed is part of the most sexually-repressed culture on earth. He can't even get a good look at a Muslim girl who's past the age of puberty, much less touch her. His societies are among the poorest in the world (unless they're sitting on oil). They're hopelessly out of step with the modern world. And they tend to be joyless hell-holes, full of sullen, violence-prone pricks like himself. Therefore, his religion, which creates this culture and these grim circumstances, had damn sure better be true. It had damn well better be his ticket to Paradise. I think that, on the whole, Ahmed actually does believe his religion to be The Real Deal; but he doesn't want to hear anyone suggest otherwise, because he can't even entertain that possibility. He's got too much riding on his cosmological bet. So there's a little tension there, in other words.
5) Muslim outrage is so effective! Aside from these ideological and psychological factors, it's obvious that Muslims use their extreme "sensitivity" in a calculated effort to silence criticism. They've learned that if they react to criticism by protesting and rioting like a bunch of violent, infantile brats -- maybe burning down an embassy or two, and murdering a few infidels, the politically-correct establishment types in the West will do everything in their power to discourage the "offensive" remarks, or cartoons, or films. Western politicians and religious leaders will line up to condemn the "hurtful" statements regarding the Religion of Peace. Freedom of speech be damned. "Muslim feelings" and "community cohesion" trump all.
Well, there seems to be a consensus on what the penalty should be, for the teasing and the taunting.
(I've got a hunch that Does not play well with others is a common theme on the report cards of Muslim kids.)
It's never too early to get them started on the infidel hatin'.
Preach it, little brother!
What made these British devotees of the Religion of Peace so eager for some slaying, beheading, and/or exterminating? Twelve cartoons published in a Danish newspaper, portraying the prophet Mohammed. (Which was done to determine whether or not Muslims living in the West respect the principles of free speech and freedom of the press. The conclusion? Not so much!)
Apparently, Muslims claim the right to say anything, no matter how offensive. It's only us
infidels who need to be respectful. It's only Muslim feelings that count.
Yada, yada, yada...
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