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June 20, 2007
"Those Sons-of-Bitches Insulted Our Religion Again. I know, Let's Burn Something!"
The Religion of Peace’s followers are once again proving themselves a peaceful bunch these days.
First, some background...
In 1988, Salman Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses, a novel inspired in part by the life of Muhammad (the peaceful prophet, not Muhammad Ali, the boxer). Muhammad the prophet is the one you can’t draw, speak poorly about, etc., unless you want to be stabbed or spark a riot in the peaceful Middle East (not that sparking a riot in the Middle East is necessarily the hardest thing to do these days).
As a result of the novel’s release, the ever peaceful Ayatollah Khomeini (a.k.a. the man whose plane should never have been allowed to land when it flew him back to Iran from Paris, a.k.a. “Exhibit A” as to why the Middle East should have a gigantic retractable dome built around it) issued a, can you guess? Do you know the word? Yes, you got it! Congratulations. A FATWA, boys and girls! Kho-nut-job issued a peaceful fatwa calling for the death of Rushdie because Rushdie insulted Islam. Heaven forbid anyone do that! After all, it’s such a peaceful religion, especially as practiced in much of the Middle East.
Fast forward a couple decades. Somehow Rushdie is still alive despite a bunch of crazy nut-jobs thinking God wants them to kill him.
Last week, the Queen (yes, that silly old lady with all the neat hats) knighted Rushdie for his services to literature (and perhaps even for his services to her in another department as well, but that’s pure speculation on my part). This sparked, surprise, surprise, massive rioting throughout part of the peaceful Muslim world.
Look at these nice, peaceful Pakastani men burning effigies of Rushdie. 
Is there an official effigy maker? If so, that son-of-a-bitch is busier than a tube of K-Y jelly in the showers at San Quentin.
Of course, what’s a good-old-fashioned peaceful debate about values and religion without a flag or two being torched as well?! Bye, bye, Union Jack, hello peaceful flame!
(Is it just me, or does anyone else think you could make a ton of money operating a chain of Middle Eastern stores that only sell Israeli, British, and American flags? With as many flags as these idiots torch, well, you get the point.)
And of course, then you have this pack of peaceful future Nobel Prize winners with their neat sign informing us that the BIGGEST EVIL in the World is Salman Rushdie being called “Sir.”
That’s right. The biggest evil in the ENTIRE WORLD is certainly not head-chopping-off nut-jobs, diseased-ravaged continents, or world poverty; it’s one man, with whom a bunch of men in funny outfits disagree, being called “Sir.”
It'd be pretty funny if it weren't so damn scary.
Photo Credits go to: AFP/Nicholas Roberts, AFP/Sameed Qureshi, AFP/Farooq Naeem, AFP/Asif Hassan, Mohsin Raza/Reuters, REUTERS/Asim Tanveer
Comments
My favorite is the "Send over Rushdie to Packistan for TRAIL in Sharia."
You want Salman Rushdie to come to Packistan for a backpacking adventure?
Posted by: over_educated at June 20, 2007 01:18 PM
I love the commentary, but the best (worst) thing about these folks is that the photos completely speak for themselves.
Posted by: jeh at June 20, 2007 03:33 PM
I don't understand I don't understand I don't understand them. I don't think I ever will.
Posted by: Harmless Error at June 20, 2007 09:58 PM
Second picture.
Is that guy wearing a golden wig?
Posted by: Corporate Whore at June 21, 2007 05:18 AM
Other interesting signs from the pics:
"Queen Elizebit(c?)h Shame to you"
"Mushrooms" (?????)
On a related topic: would anyone here have any second thoughts about voting for a Muslim for office?
Posted by: fermanator at June 21, 2007 10:50 AM
How Padma can stay with that yutz is simply beyond me.
Posted by: LisaBinDaCity at June 21, 2007 12:54 PM
These people are crazy and brainwashed to the max. On a lighter note, they resemble the men who used to stand in front of the engineering building at college and smoke the bugeezes out of their lungs. Maybe if the people in the article started smoking they would be more calm like the engineering students.
Posted by: leaf at June 22, 2007 06:39 PM
Yes! And the greatest travesty is..have you seen his trophy wife?? The dumb, vapid hostes off Top Chef. She's his fourth wife apparently.
Posted by: teahouseblossom at June 24, 2007 08:32 PM
Teahouse- that hostess from Top Chef is a total beeotch
Posted by: leaf at June 25, 2007 01:46 PM
How does someone who looks like that get 4 wives, much less 1. And wife #4 is Padma Lakshmi?
He better be hung like a horse and can shoot across the room.
Posted by: Ming the Merciless at June 26, 2007 11:26 PM
Ming EASILY wins the "best comment on this post" award.
Posted by: Fool at June 27, 2007 01:26 AM
