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The best part about our Torture Offsets is that they alleviate leftist guilt about what’s being done to all the poor Johnny Jihads down in Gitmo while not actually doing anything to free them. Added bonus: by contributing to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, they also drain away money that may have gone to more viable Democrat candidates.
UPDATE at 12:17pm, 11/30/07:
…Imagine my surprise when I read this:
Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
[...] They called for [the teacher's] execution, saying, “No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.”
It’s a regime-sanctioned protest, so it’s conceivable that this is more a reflection of a corrupt, morally bankrupt government than a corrupt, morally bankrupt culture and religion. But since Sudan is a Muslim thugocracy (see the CIA World Factbook), that’s a distinction without a difference.
And another thing… The teacher was charged with inciting religious hatred, which is funny because, you know, it makes it sound as though they need a reason to feel religious hatred. And I wonder if they understand that stories of Muslims acting like this tend to inspire religious hatred as well. If only they showed half as much outrage over suicide-bombers named Muhammad as they do over plush toys named Muhammad.
UPDATE at 2:28pm, 11/30/07: This post is getting longer than the Narrator prefers to have on the front page, so I’ll put the rest of my application for a death-fatwa beneath the fold.
From a Daily Kos post meditating on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University (h/t LGF):
I know I’m a Jewish lesbian and he’d probably have me killed. But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon…
[...] I want to be very clear. There are certainly many things about Ahmadinejad that I abhor — locking up dissidents, executing of gay folks, denying the fact of the Holocaust, potentially adding another dangerous nuclear power to the world and, in general, stifling democracy. Even still, I can’t help but be turned on by his frank rhetoric calling out the horrors of the Bush Administration and, for that matter, generations of US foreign policy preceding.
She later claimed it was satire, but I think we all know better. Anyway, it’s not like she was the only one impressed by Ahmadinejad.
The left anymore is putting a lot of stock in the idea that the enemy (Iran and Islamists in general) of their enemy (Bush) is their friend. This in spite of the fact that they know the former would gladly slit their useful idiot throats.
Update 9/28/07 at 9:55am: Jonah Goldberg this morning has a terrific essay on A’jad’s Columbia visit, free speech, and cowardice masking as principle. Ed Morrissey expands on Goldberg’s essay here. Key point:
Freedom of speech does not confer upon anyone the right to be published. Nor does it impose on other citizens the duty to listen or to acknowledge the speech. Most importantly, it does not grant an immunity from criticism for the speech one gives — because that would also constrain free speech.
One would think this obvious. But since so many universities and editorial writers keep insisting that every tyrant and crackpot with an America-hating chip on his shoulder is entitled to a forum, it’s a point worth repeating.
A bit more seriously beneath the jump… Continue reading ‘I must deserve it’
