Tuesday, September 24, 2002 |
23:21 - A thousand words (plus a few more)
http://www.reason.com/hod/cartoon.pb090602.shtml
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Via InstaPundit, this cartoon is all kindsa cathartic.
By the way-- the ar-Rahman list recently produced a message that contained a large collection of very gruesome morgue photos of Palestinians who had evidently met very violent ends. The title was "Pictures from Jenin", and naturally anybody with an inclination to react based on gut instincts and raw emotion (rather than first-hand news reports, UN findings, and counting the actual number of distinct bodies in the photos-- it was about four) was supposed to respond with a great rush of pro-Palestinian mania and rise up to defeat the bloodthirsty Jewish menace.
But this time, after-- what, six months?-- it finally went too far. For the first time, a number of people on the list, both Muslim and otherwise, who evidently (like me) had been signed up for the list without their even knowing, piped up. Finally... at long last, people who are horrified by the list members' deep-rooted hatred for everything in the world besides themselves, and who have had enough of being told that al-Jazeera is a less biased news organ than CNN, that the US and Israel slaughter Muslims by the tens of thousands every day, that the Taliban were justified in blowing up the cliffside Buddhas because the angels can't enter the house of Allah when false idols are standing outside the door (yeah, real powerful monotheism there, guys), and that the world's destiny is for every last human to be a Muslim living under the global Caliphate and Sharia law, and won't that just be so great?
People have been grumbling things like "Better watch the anti-semitism, fellas, or this stuff you're posting just might end up in the hands of those who may hold doubts about your allegiances." (To which the response, of course, is "I have no allegiance but to Allah-- I love living in the US, but fuck America if they pursue their immoral and unfounded war in Afghanistan and Iraq, where all people are good and right and live in the service of Allah".)
I didn't want to post a message of my own saying "Too late for that". But I do have to say, the most unsatisfying thing about all this is that after they die, fundamentalists will never find out they were wrong.
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