Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Cartoons, politics, and religion
A bit more on the cartoon furor:
I don't believe the CIA is the only shit-stirrer in the world today. The uproar over the cartoons of Muhammad are orchestrated; one source says orchestrated by the Wahabiists of Saudi Arabia to cover up their own fuckups with the building collapse—and to take the heat off other Wahabiist mullahs and such. I believe that. I think the government of Iran is hateful enough to be pumping money and energy into the demonstrations, too. There's nothing like a very vivid external boogeyman to bring about domestic solidarity. And to provoke the West as much as possible.
To be honest, I don't respect the Moslem religion anymore than I respect any organized religion. Catholicism? No. Protestantism? Nope. Judaism? Hah. All of them preach intolerance of other faiths—every one of them. All of them do their best to repress women. All of them cover up for short-comings within their organizations. And all of them are authoritarian.
I don't believe the CIA is the only shit-stirrer in the world today. The uproar over the cartoons of Muhammad are orchestrated; one source says orchestrated by the Wahabiists of Saudi Arabia to cover up their own fuckups with the building collapse—and to take the heat off other Wahabiist mullahs and such. I believe that. I think the government of Iran is hateful enough to be pumping money and energy into the demonstrations, too. There's nothing like a very vivid external boogeyman to bring about domestic solidarity. And to provoke the West as much as possible.
To be honest, I don't respect the Moslem religion anymore than I respect any organized religion. Catholicism? No. Protestantism? Nope. Judaism? Hah. All of them preach intolerance of other faiths—every one of them. All of them do their best to repress women. All of them cover up for short-comings within their organizations. And all of them are authoritarian.
