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October 6, 2005
Dhimmitude Beyond Parody
Islamic terrorism is vicious, despicable, and morally obscene, and its perpetuators are the vilest scum on the planet. But you have to admit, in a world infested with moonbattery, terrorism works.
Without terrorism, few in the West would even notice an absurd and pointless anachronism like Islam. But kill a few thousand civilians, and not only do Muslims get attention, they get clout. Worse, they get the kind of politically correct obsequiousness that will make you ashamed to be human.
Mark Steyn has a good piece in The Daily Telegraph (thanks to Byron for the tip) on the lengths to which Westerners will go to abase themselves in the face of Muslim demands that we subjugate our own culture to their dark age intolerance. As he demonstrates, our "descent into dhimmitude is beyond parody."
Muslims have a thing about pigs. Consequently:
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Tory-controlled) has now announced that, following a complaint by a Muslim employee, all work pictures and knick-knacks of novelty pigs and "pig-related items" will be banned. Among the verboten items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. And, as we know, Muslims regard pigs as "unclean," even an anthropomorphised cartoon pig wearing a scarf and a bright, colourful singlet.
That's right, thanks to their habit of flying passenger planes into office buildings and setting off bombs on public transportation, Muslims now have the cultural leverage to march into England and ban cartoon characters on the grounds they don't like pigs. You see, we have to be tolerant of their intolerance.
I know it's hard, but try to take this seriously for a moment. Steyn explains why we should:
When every act that a culture makes communicates weakness and loss of self-belief, eventually you'll be taken at your word. In the long term, these trivial concessions are more significant victories than blowing up infidels on the Tube or in Bali beach restaurants. An act of murder demands at least the pretence of moral seriousness, even from the dopiest appeasers. But small acts of cultural vandalism corrode the fabric of freedom all but unseen.
British Muslims have already proven that they can dictate the graphics on Burger King's ice cream packaging. Of course this stuff is comically trivial (although it cost Burger King thousands to redesign their ice cream lids), but it's the equivalent of having to step off the street and walk in the gutter whenever you see a Muslim coming your way.
Steyn is right to wonder, "What will be deemed 'unacceptable' in the interests of 'tolerance' in 20 or even five years' time?"
Meanwhile, Christians annoyed at their tax money being spent on a picture of the Virgin Mary with feces and fragments of porno photos stuck all over it are chided for not being more tolerant. Imagine the reaction if someone did that to a picture of Mohammed and declared that it was art and you'll get an idea of how far into dhimmitude we've already sunk.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 6, 2005 6:57 AM
Comments
Muslims view pigs as unclean? Any word on how pigs view Muslims?
Posted by: B.L. Zabub at October 6, 2005 12:27 PM
Pity the poor Muslim, to him everyone and everything is out to get him. Women have to be covered least an impure thought cross his mind like 'oh baby!' An ice cream lid can not even remotely look like sacred writing least an impure thought comes to mind, like delicious.
Pity, yeah right. I will pity him with Beretta, Bushmaster, Colt, etc for being such a tool.
Posted by: Anna at October 6, 2005 1:55 PM
Ah, the wonders of Moongodism...or is that Lunartarianism™?
Posted by: LC TripleNeckSteel at October 6, 2005 11:29 PM
But think of the fun you could have tormenting a fanatical Muslim co-worker!
Walk into his office eating a ham sandwich, and blow some "pig molecules" therein from the sandwich. Were any left behind? Gee, I'm not sure...
Or drop a tiny piece of ham or bacon on the floor; does he cut out that piece of carpet? Great. Drop some more bits, and watch the fun.
Or, in his absence, rub a piece of ham all over his chair while (trusted) co-workers look on (the Leona Helmsley dipsy doodle), who forever after walk around sporting canary feathers around their mouths.
The possibilities are endless.
Posted by: B.L. Zabub at October 6, 2005 11:34 PM
Aren't you lumping all of Islam into the same basket as a handful of terrorists?
Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism. Whatever it's called, this ideology is very different from the religion of Islam.
Posted by: Denny Hix at October 7, 2005 9:29 AM
Denny, what is the leading terrorist country in the world, and one of the most brutal oppressors of human rights? A. Iran.
Who runs Iran? A. The government of Iran is run entirely by Muslim clerics.
How do you reconcile this with the idea that terrorism and oppression are contrary to Islam?
Just asking.
Posted by: V the K at October 7, 2005 9:37 AM
Those aren't my words, by the way.
Those are President Bush's: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051006-3.html
Eighth paragraph of yesterday's speech.
Posted by: Denny Hix at October 7, 2005 10:19 AM
Maybe the US Military needs a "Ham Bomb" which disperses a fine mist of micronized pork byproducts.
I've got to agree with V the K. Radical Islam does not seem to be at odds with the Koran. The religion itself is evil.
Posted by: Steve O at October 7, 2005 10:43 AM
Since when does Hick agree with President Bush? When Bush gets all P.C. on Islam?
Nice to see you've got your priorities and sympathies straight, Hick.
Posted by: Jonathan at October 7, 2005 9:54 PM
