10 Badass Moments from Bosch Fawstin’s The Infidel #2
The Muslim-turned-Objectivist artist is back with another intellectual provocation disguised as a comic book. Exclusive excerpts at PJ Lifestyle.
July 15, 2012 - 12:00 pm
It’s badass to learn how to control one’s animal instincts, the primal desire within each of us to kill and destroy. The badass knows how to channel his energy and his talent into a discipline in order to change the world as he sees fit.
I’ve seen Bosch Fawstin and his artwork here and there on the internet. Is it really true that he’s an ex-Muslim? I never would have guessed that.
rickl: Yes, he was raised Muslim. Here’s his Daily Show appearance from December:
http://fawstin.blogspot.com/2011/12/pigman-on-daily-show.html
G-d, I miss Andrew Breitbart. The baddest of all badasses of our time, indeed. We didn’t deserve him.
Aside, I’m more interested in the culture of comics than comics themselves (all of it, as far as I’m concerned, is a footnote to Will Eisner), but it is interesting to learn that the Mary Sue seems to be at the heart of some of the more complex and personal ones. It actually makes a lot more sense than the rampant Mary Sueing of too many supposedly “realistic” novelists (Tom Clancy, Patricia Cornwell, etc.)
“this memorable action sequence where one man overcomes an entire bar fool of thugs:”
so…whatsa “bar fool”?
( i suppose i might’ve been one back in the day)
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Typo corrected, thanks.
Ah, ojectivism’s central hallmark, clear thinking, is delightfully illustrated here.
Those of us who took the philosophy to heart were, in a way, heartbroken to see it bottled up and put on a shelf. Instead of taking Rand’s quotes in their proper context and understanding them as they applied to their times,
many so-called objectivists used them as a drunk uses a lamp post, something to lean on rather than for illumination.
I think Bosch, like Ayan Hirsi Ali, may be one of those heroic people who is very VERY aware of reality’s terms and cannot countenance the propagation of a lie.
For years I read comics. Ditko will always be in rarefied air, but I’m liking this Bosch fellow a LOT.
I think Bosch, like Ayan Hirsi Ali, may be one of those heroic people who is very VERY aware of reality’s terms and cannot countenance the propagation of a lie.
Say, wan’t it Ms. Ali who publicly stated that Islam could be fixed? She’s no hero of this proud and unapologetic Islamophobe.
This: Check it out. She knows PLENTY about the realities, I promise you.
‘In a long interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Rogier van Bakel of Reason Magazine brought out her best with some excellent questions. Ali was raised as a Muslim in Somalia, and has since become an outspoken atheist who is now marked for death by Islamic fundamentalists. She is sharp and bold and straightforward. I am excerpting parts the article here. If you have the time, it will be worth it to read the whole article: “The Trouble Is The West.”‘
Reason: Should we acknowledge that organized religion has sometimes sparked precisely the kinds of emancipation movements that could lift Islam into modern times? Slavery in the United States ended in part because of opposition by prominent church members and the communities they galvanized. The Polish Catholic Church helped defeat the Jaruzelski puppet regime. Do you think Islam could bring about similar social and political changes?
Hirsi Ali: Only if Islam is defeated. Because right now, the political side of Islam, the power-hungry expansionist side of Islam, has become superior to the Sufis and the Ismailis and the peace-seeking Muslims.
Reason: Don’t you mean defeating radical Islam?
Hirsi Ali: No. Islam, period. Once it’s defeated, it can mutate into something peaceful. It’s very difficult to even talk about peace now. They’re not interested in peace.
Reason: We have to crush the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims under our boot? In concrete terms, what does that mean, “defeat Islam”?
Hirsi Ali: I think that we are at war with Islam. And there’s no middle ground in wars. Islam can be defeated in many ways. For starters, you stop the spread of the ideology itself; at present, there are native Westerners converting to Islam, and they’re the most fanatical sometimes. There is infiltration of Islam in the schools and universities of the West. You stop that. You stop the symbol burning and the effigy burning, and you look them in the eye and flex your muscles and you say, “This is a warning. We won’t accept this anymore.” There comes a moment when you crush your enemy.
As Andrew Breitbart was to cultural Marxism…
Ah, cultural Marxism. A very real thing that’s involved in how every person forms an opinion on something, but that almost nobody knows about.
G.S.E.R.S.S. = Globolist-Socialist Environmentalist Racist Sexist Secularist, which goes by the nickname Geezers, a term that containing the six bubbles of fictive reality, covering all that we see, hear and act in our everyday modern lives. Turn on the TV and you’re bound to see each in action before too long, burgeoning with turnspeak, wielding influence on opinion formation in subtle ways, and almost always resulting in bad art.
Islam is the most evil ideology ever created. I just read John Daniels new book, ‘THE COMING: A TRUE STORY OF HORROR’@ Amazon.com and it blew me away! He actually proves that Islam is the Beast. Everyone should read this book.
He’s a objectivist. While he’s focusing on Muslims, objectivism is opposed to all religion or altruism. Voluntary charity is an abomination before Rand, as is any devotion to a higher power or belief in the supernatural. I appreciate his opposition to Islamic Supremacism, but objectivists / randroids are only allies of convenience.
Objectivism is opposed to faith, true, as it recognizes that Reason is man’s only means of grasping reality, only means to knowledge. As for your claim that Rand saw *voluntary* charity as an abomination, that’s false. Charity is an optional issue for individuals, not a moral issue. But Forced charity, as in the government forcing tax payers to pay for things that they may find morally repugnant, that is indeed an “abomination” and Rand and Objectivists are opposed to that.
My heart is really with the Zuhdi Jassers and Irshad Manjis of the world who want to fight not for a “moderate” but a reformed Islam that rejects Koranic literalism and Shari’ah while embracing separation of mosque and state
I was with you until this sentetence. A reformed Islam is about as absurd as a reformed Nazism who is no longer antisemitic.
It is not merely about separation of mosque and state or Shariah. It ais about the whole of Islam.
1) Islam sets no moral rules. Consider the five pillars of Islam: Shahada (telling there is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet), prayer, pilgrimage, Ramadan and Zakat (giving 3% of t your revenue to the poor and only if you can afford it). From these pillars only one, Zakhat, could more or less (note the restrictions and also that charity is not for non-Muslams) has any semblance of moralitry or in trying to make a better world. There is no “Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lift false testimony”. There is no “Don’t do to others…” They, more or less exist, (usually applay only for deals between Muslims) but not in the five pillars, in the secondary>/b> teachings of Islam.
2) Islam declares itself at war with the rest of the world. A war who is supposed to last until the end of times. And that is centric. In fact you can kill, rape, steal Allah will forgive you evrerthing and will automatically house you in the highest of the seven circles of Paradise provided you shed blood or give your own in Djihad. That is why Mohammed Atta and his men went to night clubs and drank alcohol: they could do that: whatever sins they did these or far worse ones would be forgiven . Djihad is not accessory to Islam. It is told to be the Sixth and more important pillar of Islam, the latest and thus most importente sura the one who overrides all others is the “Sura of the Sword” and Muhammad did nothing but promise hell to those he called “hypocrites”: Muslims who neither went to jihad nor helped to fund it or to feed the families of jihadis.
3) Islam at its core tells women are inferior to men, it tells they aren’t allowed to say no (the hottest part of hell is not for murderers or child molesters but for women who had “headaches”), that men have the right to beat them. Women rarely go to paradise and only to its first circle, the one who is farthest of God. It also tells men are allowed to sexullay use their slaves at will. Islam at its core tells Muslim have more rights than kafirs, that when a Muslim kills a kaffir the punishment will be half than for kiling a Muslim and cannot be death no matter how gruesome the crime, no matter who was the victim. Islam at its core allows slavery and sexual use of slaves at least when slave is not a Muslim.
4) Do I need you to remind you what kind of man was Muhammad: a highway robber, an ethnic cleanser, a murderer both of captives and of political opponents, a raper, a paedophile, a man who had people tortured in order to make them tell where were their riches. And this is the man evry Muslim; is supposed to try to imitate in everything and that this is the man your reformed Islam would still have as messenger.
Imagine a religion saying there is “No God butr God and Adolf Hitler is his propet”, having Mein Kampf as sacred book and then imagaine someone telmling he is for reformed Nazism, one who would be peaceful and reepectful both of untermenschen and of Jews all while still holding Hitler as the messenger of God and Mein Kampf as its sscred book. You would laugh at it isn’t it? Well it is equivalent to your assertion about Islam.
Dreaming of a reformed Islam assumes Islam has some usefulness for mankind, contributes to a better world. It hasn’t and it doesn’t. What we should dream of, what we should strive for is not for a reformed Islam but for its disapperance. For having Muslims massively leaving it (can be Christianism, can be Budhism that is not the problem) until the day even in Saudi Arabia no mosque remains open and the number of its followers becomes equal to the number for the greek religion: zero.