{"id":738,"date":"2006-02-04T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2006-02-04T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T05:15:00","slug":"watch-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/watch-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch your head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Either chunks of sky or pig shit could be falling soon.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note:<\/b> I’m not in a charitable mood at the moment (I’ve got a raging headache and the Tylenol I took is stuck in my throat, taunting me), so please forgive the following very rude and incendiary things I’m about to say about religion. This disclaimer is sitting here to remind you that I cast a skeptical eye on all religions and don’t claim any of them as my own, but that despite my personal distaste for most of what organized religion has to offer, I think people should be able to practice religion however they like as long as they don’t trod on other people’s freedoms. That said…<\/i><\/p>\n

Guess what, kids: Michelle Malkin is right about this<\/a>. <\/p>\n

CNN and other networks and news outlets should not shrink from printing the inflammatory cartoons<\/a> depicting artists’ interpretations of Mohammed that have sparked so much recent controversy in Europe<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Malkin is right when she alleges that CNN is witholding the images from the public not out of respect for Islam — their official explanation — but out of fear. <\/p>\n

I’m not usually one to decry rampant political correctness, but in this case, it’s total bullshit to not show these images. <\/p>\n

And it’s total bullshit for Muslims to be rioting and burning things and throwing grenades and threatening lives<\/a>. Don’t like the content? OK, protest. Cancel your subscription. Write a letter to the editor. Start a blog and talk about how much your local paper sucks. But shut the fuck up with your constant talk of killing the infidels who insult your precious leader. <\/p>\n

There is no religion whose idols or gods or prophets are more sacred than the free exchange of ideas. Not one. And if your religion’s ideals are so very fragile that a two-dimensional depiction of your prophet threatens complete upheaval of your very consciousness, then perhaps you ought to seek a better god or belief system. There are plenty to choose from, and you can hop around, if you’d like, until you find a religion that makes you feel warm inside with love, not rage. <\/p>\n

I know that it’s a required caveat to say, “Islam has been hijacked by fanatics who do not represent the vast majority of Muslims.” So there, I’ll say that, because I’m holding on to the belief that that’s true. But I can’t help but get more and more fed up with much of the bullshit lobbed into the air by radical Islamic assholes. I want a vast, overwhelming number of Muslims to come out and denounce the assholery purpotrated by these egomaniacs. They are crazy, they are murderous, and they are a cancerous rotting boil on the hip of civilization. <\/p>\n

They are outraged by cartoons, but the horrific violence and jackbaggery bandied about on a nearly daily basis (beheadings of civilians and children, bombings, shootings, your average everyday oppression of women, etc.) is either ignored or treated as mildly unfortunate speedbumps on the road to getting the world to finally take their stupid religion more seriously than any of the other stupid religions. <\/p>\n

We’ve all heard it by now, but it bears repeating: The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Either chunks of sky or pig shit could be falling soon. Editor’s Note: I’m not in a charitable mood at the moment (I’ve got a raging headache and the Tylenol I took is stuck in my throat, taunting me), so please forgive the following very rude and incendiary things I’m about to say about religion. This disclaimer is sitting here to remind you that I cast a skeptical eye on all religions and don’t claim… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-bU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}