Crime Religion Germany
German court convicts man for insulting Islam
I find it incredible that we're even living in a world where allegedly Western democracies sentence their citizens to jail time for non-violent expressions of a politically incorrect opinion. How is it possible that in a European nation, one of the presumptive beacons of intellectual and philosophical rigor, it's become illegal to say that you're so angry with violent Islamists that you'd like to wipe your ass with their entire religious belief system?
And don't get me started on the invisible Islamic moderates, though George Bush keeps telling me they exist -- sometimes I feel like I'm Sally in the pumpkin patch, waiting in vain for a non-existent creature to finally show itself because someone I'd like to trust assures me that it's real and about to appear at any moment.
Yet how appropriate that Yahoo's URL for the news story is "crime_religion_germany" -- though the allies removed Hitler from Germany over half a century ago, it behooves us to remember that it wasn't just one single individual responsible for the holocaust, the invasion of nation after nation, or the repeated bombing of Britain. I suppose the New-Age, New-School explanation for the collaboration of Germany's citizenry in a program of worldwide domination is that the population which crowded around Hitler and saluted him in droves was simply victimized, oppressed and traumatized by his lethal charisma (much like Arianna Huffington must have felt towards a certain gay, conservative, Republican, oil-rich multi-millionaire) . . . yes, that might explain the cheering throngs in the streets, but it certainly doesn't excuse them.
Nor does it excuse the same nation of jailing a 61 year old business man for claiming that the Koran is a cookbook for terrorists, especially considering Islamist terrorists just finished bombing a historic mosque in Baghdad in a deliberate attempt to instigate a civil war and thereby destroy any progress towards Western style cultural and religious freedom foisted upon a Middle Eastern population by the U.S. Military because said population couldn't find it within themselves to establish these same freedoms on their own.
*Whew* -- that was a long sentence. Pardon me while I rest a sec, but don't forget that point I made about lethal charisma and how it doesn't excuse even a passively collaborative population of anything.
But it's all Israel's fault anyway, dontchya know (or probably some godawful whore's fault).
Ugh -- where's a good wall to topple when you need one?