No Respect

I noticed a news blurb about some John McCain supporters that were lambasting Barack Obama, inferring that Obama is a Muslim and a Communist. They were outdoors at some sort of McCain rally, handing out a cleverly designed bumper sticker that read, "Obama For Change", where the "C" in "Change" was an Islamic crescent, and the "G" in "Change" was a hammer & sickle. It was their way of jabbing at Obama to "help" McCain's cause.

Frankly, I don't care about the whole "Obama is this" and "Obama isn't that" argument. I don't suspect him of being a Muslim or a Communist. I just think he's a clueless dipshit. He's a smooth talker, though. At least he likes to think he is. He gets pretty proud of himself when he gets up in front of an audience. Here's the thing, Obama fans: being a smooth talker does NOT make one a great leader. It just means he had some good speech classes in college. Heck, I had a few decent speech classes in college too, and I can assure you that I'm definitely not fit to be President of the United States.

Anyway, I watched this i-Reporter style video of these McCain supporters trying to both endorse McCain while trying to spout off about Obama being a Muslim and Communist, and various Muslim Republicans in the crowd (yes, they apparently do exist) began to surround these people and spout back. Naturally, it got ugly and the Muslim constituents in the crowd got pretty upset and a few claimed that they were going to switch their vote to Obama based on the behavior of these somewhat radical McCain supporters. It should be noted that the McCain campaign did NOT appreciate the message these radical and supposed McCain supporters were sending, and the campaign does not share their opinions. Anyway, the "offended" Muslims are perfectly in their right to choose to switch their vote, if they see fit. That's what democracy is about. They were apparently too offended to acknowledge that the McCain campaign did not share the opinions of the instigators, but that's neither here nor there.

Here's my point, though. I found it interesting that someone was exercising their freedom of speech in the classic American way (trying to sway people's votes), and it ended up being the MUSLIM folks in the crowd who ended up getting so unreasonably offended and who raised the tensions in the situation. Sure, the instigators may have been off the mark with their allegations against Obama, and sure they were saying things offensive to Muslims (and Communists). That's a given. But the thing is, those instigators had the RIGHT to do so. They were NOT exhibiting violent behavior; they were only speaking their minds. The Muslims in the crowd had the option of ignoring them, or voting against them. Rather than do either, they got up in the faces of the instigators and became confrontational. The instigators weren't confrontational. Again, they were only speaking their minds. It wasn't until the Muslims showed up that things got confrontational.

Again, it appears that we Americans can no longer speak our minds. So much for our Constitutional right to free speech. I guess only Muslims can speak their minds and object to things. They seem to reserve the exclusive right to be offended by everything, and the exclusive obligation to violently protest against everything. I guess we Americans can no longer live by our own Constitution anymore. We're apparently subject to Sharia law now. I wasn't aware of the disbanding of our Constitution, but apparently the Koran now holds more sway in this nation than our Constitution. I'm tired of always having to "respect" Islam, when Islam respects nothing at all. Islam doesn't even respect itself. It's a despicable cult of brainwashing, and it's only purpose is to perpetuate misery. I don't know that I've ever witnessed a happy Muslim, have you? The only time I ever seem to see happy Muslims is when there's a dead American corpse underneath their dancing feet.

Frankly, I'm tired of hearing Muslims whine about how they're so "oppressed" by Western culture. Here's the deal, Muslims: your culture is completely incompatible with Western culture. This is why I cannot understand why any Muslim would even want to live in this country. We stand for everything that Islam is not. Freedom, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- these are American ideals. None of them exist in the Islam I've always seen. I see only death, coercion, threats, terror, intolerance, anger, hatred, and absolutism when I see Islam. I see double standards when I see Islam. I see a swath of pissed off men who, if you could ever possibly sit them down and have a civilized conversation with them, probably couldn't even tell you what the hell they're so angry about in the first place. They get into their massive mobs, take on the mob mentality, and burn flags and people in effigy. Some clever Dane decides to print a political cartoon and instead of Muslims just objecting to it in a civilized fashion, death threats and fatwas are immediately issued. What the hell is that shit?
Rest assured that the pro-McCain "instigators" I mentioned above at the McCain rally have probably received countless death threats from Muslims by now. Why? For expressing a political opinion?

There's a reason I'm spouting off my opinions against Muslims so blatantly here in my blogs. It's because they need to learn to taste their own medicine and take a tongue-lashing now and then. I'm tired of hearing how I'm supposed to respect Islam, and tiptoe around them and not express any opinions that might offend them. Why shouldn't I? Are they going to issue fatwas and death threats against me? Fine, let 'em come. I've got a fully loaded clip of hollow points for any Muslim motherfucker who thinks he's gonna threaten me. If Muslims can dish out their anger and their hatred, they'd best be prepared to eat it too. I'll deal it right back, because unlike most cowardly Americans, I refuse to capitulate.

Until I see Islam dish out respect and tolerance for those in the human race that don't share their twisted ideology, I refuse to dish out any respect or tolerance for Islam. It's not deserving of any if it cannot dole it out. You have to give respect to get it.

Another foreign relief worker was murdered in Afghanistan this week. She was killed by Taliban insurgents because she was "preaching Christianity". She was there to help and serve the disabled in Afghanistan. She was no threat to anyone. But she dared to speak up in support of her faith, and was promptly murdered for her trouble. She was mowed down by machine gun fire from a passing motorcycle. Yeah, those Islamic jihadists are surely a bunch of brave bad-asses, aren't they? They shot down an unarmed woman who was there to help the disabled. I'm not sure how she was a threat, other than she held a different (and better) religious ideology than theirs. Yes, we infidel Christians are terrible people for helping the disabled. That, like everything else, must be some sort of horrible affront to Islam. I just don't understand how Islam seems to thrive so much on misery and suffering. It must be mandatory in the Koran to make everyone around you suffer (or die).

I read a quote from none other than Colin Powell this week. In reference to the allegations that Barack Obama is a Muslim, Colin Powell responded, "What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?" I'll answer that one, Colin. Yes, there is.