Iranian leader/whackjob Mahoud Ahmadinejad (a.k.a. “My Mood, I Wanna Jihad”) spoke today at formerly prestigious Columbia University in New York. The fact that he was granted an audience in the first place is insulting enough, but to hear some of his American supporters sound off is even more disgusting. For example, Dilbert creator Scott Adams had this to say:
Ahmadinejad also called the holocaust a “myth.” Fuck him! A myth is something a society uses to frame their understanding of their world, andact accordingly. It’s not as if the world created a whole new country because of holocaust guilt and gives it a free pass no matter what it does. That’s Iranian crazy talk. Ahmadinejad can blow me.
Holocaust guilt? Um… could that be considered just a little bit anti-semitic? Does the fact that Israel kicked some Palestinian ass in 1967 ring a bell? Does the fact that none of the other Middle Eastern countries offered Palestinians refuge mean anything? Sure, Israel gets a free pass. They get hundreds of them lobbed across their border all of the time. Scott Adams is on crack, or he’s full of himself, or he’s become isolated like John Travolta in that “Boy in a Plastic Bubble” movie from the 70s. He’s entirely out of touch, and I’ve canceled my Dilbert subscription because of his comments. And I really like Dilbert.
I used to enjoy going to movies. I really liked George Clooney. The same for Tom Cruise and a few others out there. But then they had to go off and spout their opinions about how America is the bad guy and the poor suffering Sh’ria following Muslims are the victims. Fuck them. Fuck the Koran, and fuck Hollywood. Except for a couple of movies for my kids I haven’t offered theaters any of my money since 9/11. Hollywood is the Land of the Lost.
The same could be said for most of the music industry. Lots of liberal jazz musicians in New York think Bush is Satan. Plenty of rockers and rappers think that Conservatives are a bunch of fanatical Bible thumpers that want to convert everyone to Christianity or kill them if they don’t. Ironically, the Muslims these wackos support are the ones that kill non-believers. Yet they think America is the bad guy.
Fuck them. Fuck Hollywood and fuck these liberal ass hats.
The recent Pace University Hate Crime story should be a non-story. Placing a Koran in a toilet is not a hate crime. In fact, calling it such is a slap in the face to victims of true hate crimes. Being lynched because of the color of your skin; having your head smashed with a cinder block because of the color of your skin; being killed because you are gay… THESE are hate crimes.
Placing a Koran in a toilet is an emotional statement; an act of frustration. It is not a hate crime. Offensive? Perhaps. Funny? Perhaps. A statement? Absolutely. A felony? Hell no. Let’s make a quick comparison:
1) Allah Ak Boom: The printing of this cartoon led to violence by radical Muslims and death threats. An editorial cartoon. In the world of radical Islam you aren’t allowed to editorialize. You are not allowed to think. You are not allowed the luxury of free speech. You live to pray to Allah four times a day and to beat your women if you feel like it. Nobody was sued, nobody went to jail over this, but a few cartoonists went into hiding. Religion of peace? I don’t think so.
2) Holy ‘Water’: This beautiful display was actually a winner of the 1989 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art’s “Awards in the Visual Arts” competition. The award was partially sponsored by the NEA (a.k.a. taxpayer-funded), which led to many protests. Liberals jumped to the defense of this as a blatant expression of free speech. I agree that this is offensive, but I also agree that this is free speech. The ‘artist’ knew exactly what he was doing. (IMHO most modern art has more to do with gimmicks and marketing that it does creativity or skill)
3) Pace University – Koran in Toilet: A student placed two Korans in university toilets and is being brought up on hate crime charges. Perhaps this student is frustrated at the psychotic level of Political Correctness afforded to all things Muslim. Perhaps he is frustrated that the press only reports bad news from Iraq and refuses to use the term Muslim when covering news stories about violence caused by Muslims. Is this intimidation? Only if you are a pansy. Intimidation is an attempt to change behavior. What possible action could this student be trying to change?
Now if a student grabbed a Muslim peer and rammed his face into the stall I could see the justification of hate crime charges. If someone took the Koran and beat up a Muslim student with it while shouting derogatory anti-Muslim nastiness at the victim, I could see it. The actual charges just don’t make any sense.
I find it absurd that some Americans will go to such great lengths to defend a group of people hell bent on forcing their way of life on the rest of the world. Especially when these mental midgets are exercising their own barbaric take on free speech while living in America, a country that gives all citizens rights that are capital offenses in the Middle East. For whatever reason we don’t hear in the press about Muslim family honor killings (fathers, brothers or uncles that kill female family members for not being Muslim enough); we don’t hear about the daily horrors that Muslim women suffer at the hand of their Dark Age-minded oppressors. All we seem to hear is some anger management needing Muslim man telling us that Americans are the bad guys, Americans are the oppressors, Americans are the ones that need to change. CAIR, like the ACLU, jumps to the defense of anyone Muslim as long as that person is saying nice things about Allah. Where are the ACLU and CAIR when honest, peace-loving Muslims suffer at the hand of radical Muslims?
Bottom line: Until moderate Muslims stand up and defend themselves and their religion, their lives and ours will be subject to the rantings and violence carried out by the immature man-children known as radical Islamists.
