Pouring gasoline on a fire

February 15th, 2008

This is just a stupid, badly-drawn, and—honestly—trite political cartoon. Yet there are people Out There in the so-called Real World who are literally gunning to murder the guy who drew this cartoon as well as the staff of the Danish newspaper which originally published it. A student at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, in fact, stated that “we [he and his 200 followers] are even ready to sacrifice our life for our beloved prophet.”

You, sir, are going to sacrifice your life for a doodle published in a newspaper in a country thousands of miles away from where you live?

If Muslims feel the need to be offended by the above depiction of Muhammud, they’ve every right to do so—just as Christians have the right to be offended by a statue of Jesus with an erect penis. When someone makes fun of your religious iconography and leadership, it is only natural that you will be angered, and will want to speak out against it.

So by all means, protest. Let the editorship of that Danish newspaper know you were offended. Boycott Danish products if you honestly think that will make a difference (it won’t). Speak out. Make your voices heard.

But remember this: a stupid doodle from a Norse country half a continent away is not a threat against your faith. If you are willing to murder or to die for some guy’s napkin-doodle, you are not a True Believer. You are not a martyr. You are a fucking idiot. Islam does not have a very good image in the West because of these kinds of patently ridiculous, Medieval over-reactions to the most miniscule snubs.

Instead of going on the warpath over a goofy cartoon, why not turn your ire toward how your various societies’ leaderships have become little more than pawns in Western powers’ oil wars. Saudi oil princes live lives that would make ancient Egyptian pharaohs piss themselves in envy, flouting Shari’a and Islam and living lives of decadence that rival the greatest Western playboys, all the while condemning average people to death due to adultery or, good lord, “witchcraft.” If anyone needs stoning—if anyone needs protesting—it is the double-faced lords of war and oil who have perverted your religion into little more than a means of making you into living weapons.

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By Derek C. F. Pegritz on February 15th, 2008 | Scategory: Religion, Stupidity |

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    I am a muslim and i will sacrafics my life for our prophet, this is a shame of what you've done
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    well, anyway i just want to say the, i really enjoy in these pictures or cartoon, i mean all of the Arabian countries are seeing that they are the leader or may be the want to control the world in future with their stupid shouting , i encourage who drew that, and i say i love him, and really, even if what they will do, dont be scared, coz jesus with you.
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    Oh, dear. Perhaps I should've read that article a little more closely! However, thank you for noting that Christian Voice is a collection (perhaps of one) of rabid, insane, most-certainly-not-mainstream Christians. It would seem that the majority of Muslims in First World countries (that is, the EU and the US, along with the various small Muslim states that were once part of the USSR) are taking this controversy with a grain of salt--expressing their opinions, sure, but in a measured, dare I say appropriate manner. Only the insane ultra-right-wind nationalists and Muslim evangelicals are flipping their wigs over this.

    It's just unfortunate that, in certain parts of the world, they are the majority.
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    Apparently, the only offended Christians that the Sun could find to express their offense at the Jesus-plus-Phallus were Christian Voice, who in most circles - including pretty much every other Christian organisation in the UK - are regarded as batshit crazy. Christian Voice refuse to say how many members they have. They appear to mainly be Stephen Green, who's the only member ever mentioned or quoted.

    The Christian Voice website is good for a laugh, if only because it's indistinguishable from a parody. At the moment they have a counter displaying "Time which billionaire Jewish art collector (and friend of the Chief Rabbi) Anita Zabludowicz has had to destroy her blasphemous, pornographic statue of Jesus Christ with a phallus attached, since getting it back from the Baltic Centre in Gateshead at 6.00pm on Saturday 20th January 2008."

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