South Park creators hate virgins, paradise

Of all the dumb moves guaranteed to provoke dumb responses, inciting nut-job Muslims to attack the creators of South Park has to rank right up there.

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To the idiot running Revolutionmuslim.com: these are Americans you’re talking about. In the Middle East, perhaps theocratic dipwads can use the threat of violence to scare people into believing/behaving. But over here, it just makes them violent right back.

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In fact, over there it just makes them violent right back, too. The difference is that, thanks to a myriad of concurrent freedoms, people in the U.S. have the right to bear arms. So, look for a nutty Christian to go after a nutty Muslim if the threat ever turns into reality. In fact, I’d say the dude who wrote the post, Abu Talhah al Amrikee, might wanna up his home insurance, because the nuts on the Christian side are just as nutty as he is.

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What these sheep took offense to was a broad parody during South Park’s weekend episode in which major religious “prophets” are lampooned, including Mohammed (peace be upon everyone and all that.) Noting that using his image has led to murders in the past from said orthodox nutjobs, creators Trey Parker (left) and Matt Stone had Mohammed dress up in a mascot-style bear outfit.

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Look, we know you believe in raptures and virgins and one-world caliphates that prepare everyone for some mystical, magical paradise beyond the stars….but you’re a bunch of fruitcakes. There’s no proof other than blind faith behind any of the major religions, and you can deny that until you’re blue in the face, while rational people look on and wonder why anyone would want to become blue in the face.

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The vast majority of South Park’s targets deserve it (including Richard Dawkins, whose sociological ideas we often agree with, but who has the graceful approach of a lame rhinocerous in a glass-blowing factory). Few deserve is at much as Mormons and the Scientologists, because they proselytize more than most. But pretty much all religions get the same treatment, including atheists (really? Creation from nothingness? Physical impossibility. Something had to come first, so call it ‘God’ whether you anthropomorphize the image or not, and get over yourselves.)

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So rather than waste precious air pointing out once again the foibles of orthodox religion, I’ll leave the last few words on this to the unusually astute commentators who posted after a CNN story on the issue:

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From poster Neil: you watch media in the US and in other countries which allow freedom of expression, you will see numerous examples of comments and cartoons (including South Park) wherein the author treats Jesus in a way that the most devout christains would find offensive. That is exactly what was contemplated by the First Amendment to the US Constitutition, which Revolutionmuslim. com seeks the protection of when spewing its hate and thinly-veiled threats but abhors when someone says something that offends.

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From poster Evan:
This was a joke on extremists who use anything as a reason for violence. “You made fun of me, therefore I’ll kill you.” This is not a rational thought process and needs to stop. And I see these same people are asking about how we would feel if they made fun of Jesus. You obviously have not seen the show. They do make fun of Jesus, and every single group you can imagine. That is their point, and you missed it entirely.

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From DaveC:
Mohamed was as insane as was Jesus. Dudes, there is NO GOD. Grow up; this is the year 2010 and it’s time to stop believing there is a magic man in the sky who reads your minds 24/7 and will give you goodies after you die. You have one life to live and it’s on the earth and it’s now. Now run along and live a true life and not the fairy tale of the Bible, or Qu’ran, or The Book of Mormon.

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And the last word, from Bruce Roll:

Personal beliefs are not public facts. All followers of every religion should spend less time memorizing their respective sacred texts and more time studying their religion’s actual history. A religious devotion is no basis for murdering and/or maiming fellow human beings.
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I have had enough of devout extremists threatening everyone’s safety, because a non-believer had the audacity to question their religious beliefs. To me, the three most repulsive words in the English language are Evangelical, Orthodox, and Fundamentalist.

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The United States of America is a democratic republic, not a theocracy. We should stand by our constitutional freedoms and not bow to the will of ignorant religious zealots

Satan likes women in pants

Niqabs, burkas, and veils are offensive reminders of the inequality of men and women in the countries where they are worn. Their defenders claim the garments “liberate” women, which is total hogwash. But the Quebec government’s plan to force women in niqabs to reveal their faces in order to receive public services isn’t any better.

Muslim countries accept that women must sometimes reveal their faces for security purposes. I crossed into Syria once in a minibus where several women had fully-covered faces, and all were required to lift their veils for the border guard. National security trumps religion, even in the Middle East. But the proposed Quebec law could allow a doctor to refuse to treat a woman wearing a niqab or from attending a class in university, simply because the religious symbol is “offensive” to Canadian standards of equality.

I’m so indignant about the proposed law that I’m beginning to sound righteous. Fortunately, I’ve found a website http://www.movingtowardmodesty.com/Pants.htm with an article for women called “Ten Reasons Satan Wants You to Wear Pants.” It’s written by a Seventh-Day Adventist who argues that the Prince of Darkness enjoys gender confusion. Women should look like women, the argument goes, because wearing pants promotes Satan’s “ungodly feminist movement.”

So, do women who wear dresses in Quebec also need to be liberated? Are ankle-length, floral print skirts “ambulatory prisons,” which is how Quebec’s minister responsible for the status of women, Christine St.-Pierre, describes niqabs? Maybe Anita Bryant should she be refused a drivers’ license if she ever moves to Quebec.

Our Constitution protects citizens, but it’s not meant to guard anyone from being offended. A law that forces people how to dress is tyranny, no matter how frilly the frock that’s draped on it.

Alleged terrorists get paradise, short end

Ok, this one comes straight from the “natural justice” department. It’s proof positive that orthodoxy will bite you in the ass eventually.

Numerous news reports, including this one at CNN.com, have 12 Uyghur Muslims, from Xinxang province in western China, potentially to be shipped to the Pacific island nation of Palau. Seems Washington can’t just deport them, because they haven’t been convicted of anything yet and are no longer enemy combatants , so they needed someone to “accept” the 12, who are presently cooling their heels in Guantanamo Bay.

Some will go, some won’t. But chances are, no one’s going to wind up particularly happy about it.

Why? After all, Palau is a temperate island paradise. It even sits outside Oceania’s tornado and tropical storm zone with an all-year average temperature of 82F/27C.

Only this paradise isn’t exactly what they may be expecting.

From its wiki entry: “For thousands of years, Palauans have had a well established matrilineal society, believed to have descended from Javanese precedents. Traditionally land, money, and titles passed through the female line. Clan lands continue to be passed through titled women and first daughters…”

Break out the male Burkhas!

A none-burkha wearing Palau community leader says hi to a Dolphin in this shot from its tourism board..

Oh, and aside from the whole “women are in charge, suckas” thang, there’s the fact that Muslims make up less than 1% of the population. There are more sharks and saltwater crocodiles in Palau than there are Islamic fundamentalists. You have to think someone at the U.S. State Department has a wickedly black sense of humour.

Still, four got to move to Bermuda in 2008, proving that one of the most dire collateral consequences of orthodox faith is that the rest of us — at least, those of us suffering in a North American winter — just deserve better. Who knows? Maybe they figured it was the only way to convince these schmucks that life is better before you die.