“As the slaughter at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris reminds us, the phrase “religious extremism” is useless in that it is almost entirely devoid of content. It matters — and it matters a great deal — which religion is under consideration. The world does not have much of a problem with Quaker extremism, Mormon extremism, African Methodist Episcopal extremist, Reform Jewish extremism, Zen Buddhist extremism, Southern Baptist extremism, etc. We’ve seen, over the past few decades, scattered paroxysms of Hindu extremism and Sikh extremism (India), Buddhist violence (Burma), quasi-Christian cult violence (Uganda, Sudan), etc., but the big show in terms of violent extremism is the never-ending circus of jihad.
Juan Cole, in a particularly dopey moment, compared Sarah Palin, of all people, to the sort of people who just carried out a mass murder in Paris. “The values of [John McCain’s] handpicked running mate, Sarah Palin, more resemble those of Muslim fundamentalists than they do those of the Founding Fathers,” he wrote. “What’s the difference between Palin and a Muslim fundamentalist? Lipstick.”
Lipstick and 3,000 corpses in lower Manhattan, hundreds of thousands more around the world, and a dozen new ones in a Paris magazine office.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395882/folly-fundamentalism-kevin-d-williamson
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LOL I wish I had heard the sound of sodomy “echoing” in my house. That would just be great. As long as I’m doing the sodomizing. I’d have to record it. I’d have to. “hold on babe I gotta get this on tape” lol I’d have to assume any chick I’m sodomizing to the point where its echoing through my house has to be cool with video.
I cant get that idea of the echo out of my head. *choke* *gag* echo echo echo LOL *slap* slap slap slap hahahaha aw man I might have to move to Ireland and find me a nice young lass and let freedom ring from glenn to glenn while singing the star spangled banner at the break of dawn. LMFAO OMFG is the star spangled banner secretly about francis scott key’s dong?
I think I might be getting addicted to these rants. It’s almost the same feeling I used to get from smoking a butt. I hope this doesn’t lead to a 30 rants a day habit.
It says a lot for our society that hearing the truth is some how offensive. You want your prophet to be respected? ok introduce us, I’ll be very respectful, I promise. Dead people have no rights, and undead people have less rights than that. Just watch any zombie movie. Noone’s reading them their rights for a reason. They want Obama to say Islamic terrorism cuz they want to stoke a “holy war” cuz they think it will boost the number of Christians. Its insane. They love war cuz they think they are helping to bring about the apocalypse. We need to convert people away from the apocalypse cult. Oh wait that is also in their crazy prophecy, they will always be this crazy cuz facts don’t matter. I will only ever vote for an open atheist.
The Paris terrorists are being called radicals. Christ was a radical, but he wasn’t a conservative. It isn’t radicals who are necessarily violent, it’s conservative religious fundamentalists.