Didn’t you love the story of how Whoopi Goldberg and the other dame stomped off the set of the Menopausal Menagerie, a.k.a., “The View,” because Bill O’Reilly, the show’s guest, had the temerity to say he thought building the so-called Ground Zero Mosque was “inappropriate”?
It’s almost as nice as National Politically Correct Radio firing Juan Williams for saying the spectacle of chaps in “Muslim garb” on planes made him “worried” and “nervous.”
They make everybody who’s not in “Muslim garb” nervous. A friend sent me the following — under the subject line “What’s the point of taking this picture?”— which lightheartedly illustrates one thing that is meant by “Muslim garb.”
On the subject of why Juan Williams might be “worried” or “nervous,” an AP headline from the Islamic regime of Iran offers some considerably less lighthearted evidence:
“Iranian authorities cut off hand of thief”
Nice, isn’t it? And the story goes on to inform us that the “authorities” carried out this disgusting and barbarous act “in front of other prisoners” as a warning and “in a possible step toward restoring the punishment to common use and carrying it out in public.” Progress on every front, what? And these are the folks we are reaching out a hand to . . . er, attempting to negotiate with over their nuclear program? Are we really going to sit back and let this insane regime acquire the means of inflicting mass murder? Are we?
And how’s this, the concluding sentence of that AP report: “Critics say amputations and public executions and floggings hurt Iran’s image and reflect badly on Islam.”
Really? Do you think so? Amputations, public executions, floggings — and let’s not forget steering commercial airplanes into skyscrapers, decapitating journalists, stoning women and homosexuals, murdering filmmakers, burning embassies, blowing up nightclubs, etc., etc. : they don’t hurt Iran’s image nearly as much as they should, if you ask me. And as for “reflecting badly on Islam,” that’s hogwash. You usually say “X” reflects badly on “Y” when you think Y is actually better than X — that X is somehow anomalous or unrepresentative of Y. But all these amputations, stonings, etc. are not anomalous.
They don’t “reflect badly” on Islam. They are Islam. Which is yet another reason that W. Goldberg and NPR have garnered some part of the contempt and loathing they deserve.
The other menopausal woman on the view is Joy [!] Behar. She walked off in a huff with Whoopi.
The dynamic duo were offended that O’Reilly said “Because Muslims killed us on 9/11.” According to the offended, Muslims didn’t run p[lanes into buildings in New York and D. D., “extremists” did.
Another feature of Islam: Muslims HATE Jews. I mean Muslims, not just “extremists.”
I’d say it reflects quite accuratley on Islam. Bad, perhaps; but accurate nonetheless: [Koran 5.38] And (as for) the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off their hands as a punishment for what they have earned, an exemplary punishment from Allah; and Allah is Mighty, Wise.
[Koran 2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
[Koran 4.89] They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah’s way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
[Koran 5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
Loved the photo. That’s Whoopi in the middle there.
So…do child rapists reflect badly on Catholicism, or is that what Catholicism is?
And what about “an eye for an eye”? That ain’t exactly peaceful either.
Religion doesn’t kill people, people kill people.