| sebastian_dangerfield |
10-06-2010 12:29 PM |
Re: Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs
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Originally Posted by Penske 2.0
(Post 435024)
There are over a billion catholics in the world, most, if not all, of whom I don't think that we are at war with, yet, and yet, making offensive remarks about priests as a whole group and the pope, in the name of both social commentary and comedy is okay; and yet progressives and assorted other left wingers, including but not limited to leading Democrat party regulars in the US want to shut down the speech of people from Q'u'ran burning religious nuts in Florida to Mohammed drawing political cartoonists in Denmark.
Both of those religions are ripe for criticism and jokes, and yet it seems for one we have to worry about offending its adherents and being politically correct and respectful and for the other its a who gives a shite equation. Please explain?
And ftr, I am down with making fun and leveling criticism of both the above religions. Last week I burned a bible and Qu'ra'an. Check my YouTube channel for the video, which I emailed to Bin laden. And the pope. FWIW.
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On your forst paragraph, Really? You don't understand why Islam enjoys a sanctity Catholicism doesn't?
1. Islam is the underdog, the victim. A large proportion of its radical adherents are, globally speaking, losers. Can't win a war, can't create a govt infrastructure, can't create an economy not based on oil. Liberals always back the underdog. Its part of their central belief that all groups should be on equal footing.
2. Islam is exotic. Catholicism is old, well understood sexism/ritual abuse/voodoo. Islam is foreign. These jackasses have a twenty foot hard-on for anything ostensibly creating cultural diversity.
3. Islam pisses off the demographic culsters of America liberals view as inbred and uneducated. Red state religious nuts hate Islam, so naturally, equally deluded liberals take a soft stance on it.
4. Islamists blame the US for a lot of their troubles. So do liberals.
It's mostly an identification-with-the-victim thing. Catholicism is predatory, patriarchal and has inside influence not unlike the politicians and captains of industry liberals loath. To liberals unaware of the immense political and economic power Islam holds in the Middle East and beyond, and unaware of how the religion is used by powerful men to subjugate people exactly as Catholicism has been, Islam looks like an organization of the oppressed. |
