Friday, February 24, 2006

Intolerance

Crybabies. The whole wild world’s drowning in crybabies. Muslim mobs, all aroar over a misdepiction of Mohammed, cry ten dead in Libya, fifteen dead in Nigeria, cry threats and promises of more deaths to come. All because of a couple crass cartoons.

How strong your god if he can’t even stand up to caricature?

And now, cribbed from Tuesday’s Times, three -- count ’em -- more instances of crybaby oversensitivity: Roman Catholic bishops in New Zealand calling for a South Park boycott because a new episode depicts a statute of a bleeding Virgin Mary; Britain’s Hindu Forum denouncing the popular French comedy Les Bronzes 3: Amis Pour La Vie" ("The Sun-Tanned Ones 3: Friends for Life") -- which set a record for an opening weekend in France -- ’cause it shows images of the Hindu god Lord Shiva being torn up; and Cocuk-Der, a nongovernmental children’s welfare organization in Turkey, bringing suit to halt screenings of Valley of the Wolves — Iraq, a hugely popular Turkish film that depicts American troops in Iraq as villains.

Of course Turkey has already garnered no small renown for it’s persecuting of its scribes, most infamously Orhan Pamuk, who should be considered a national teasure; and Naguib Mafouz in Egypt and Theo Van Gogh in the Netherlands both ran afoul of the crybabies, the latter lethally so.

What gives? Are we getting too close for tolerance? Me thinks Johnson and Johnson needs to start sending out emergency shipments of Baby Shampoo so we might have No More Tears.

And no more Intolerance.

1 Comments:

At 9:53 AM, Blogger OtherMichael said...

yeah well the west doesnt like david irving speaking up either hes a jackassed idiot but we that is vienna threw him in jail so much for freedom of speech

 

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