Another Drive-by "Shooter" Visited Us

Frankly, we love critical comments, positive and negative. Recently, 22 March 2005, "Anonymous" drove by, shot a bunch of word bullets at us, and returned to wherever. We call these "drive by shooters." Why these folks do their one-time hits and disappear, we don't know. They seem to be Muslims or liberals, and neither group seems knowledgeable or willing to defend his or her views with critical discourse. That is a shame. We are very open to criticism, and we will publish it.

"Anonymous" put his comments at the end of D.C.Watson's blog of 22 March 2005, although it had nothing to do with D.C.'s blog. "Anonymous" was commenting on material published a little earlier this month. His comments give us an opportunity to address some things we don't often cover as much as we would like.

Here is the full comment from "Anonymous," just as he wrote all of it, except for emphases provided by me:

At Tue Mar 22, 07:41:13 AM PST,
Anonymous said in the Comments:

"Islam is a hopelessly out of date, tired, boring, absurd, Puritanical religion and evil philosophy which just stifles its adherents."

You are really showing your ignorance here. Every religion has it's fundamentalists and extremists, the majority of Muslims I know are moderate and peaceful. This sort of hateful dirge is just fuelling the fire of the fundamentalists. In fact your views sound as extreme as those of Hezzbullah just from the opposite end of the spectrum. I assume you're not a "terriorist", but then your country isn't occupied by another country's armed forces. I would suppose you would take up your constitutional right to bear arms following an invasion by Islamicists? It's America and Israels foreign policies that have caused the Jihad that you are so scared about. Policies that have directly caused many more deaths than any acts of Islamic "terrorism". How many deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan both civillian and military? Many many more than 911. Why don't you read the Koran? You'll find it to be a sensible balanced and moderate book that's been hijacked and wrongly interpreted by a few crazies. Just like the Bible has been by some people but not the majority.

"It is incumbent upon the individual to find ways to practice his religion that do not step on his contractual obligations, such as providing a day's work for a day's pay".

Tell this to Bush whom I understand likes to pray in the Oval Office

Let's start with what he quoted at the opening of his comments. He took these quotes from our article
The Crazy Aunt in the Attic: Jihad Against Starbucks (http://www.blogger.com/posts.g?blogID=7552242) , 17 March 2005. Here is the full relevant quote (emphasis mine):

If Muslims are productive human beings, in the really positive and rational sense of the term, they are so in the West, certainly not in Islamia. Islam is a hopelessly out of date, tired, boring, absurd, Puritanical religion and evil philosophy which just stifles its adherents. It even stigmatizes the Muslims who want to improve it by making Islam "moderate." Improvers are called hypocrites" and are subject to murder by the code of shari'a. So the "moderates," who, by and large, seem to want to live and let live get the equivalent of lepers' bells or yellow Star of David badges which Islam and Nazis put on Jews.

How did I arrive at such a conclusion? I did it the old-fashioned way: I earned it. After the events of 11 September 2001, I knew that I knew precious little about Islam. After reading a paperback history of the Arabs, I bought N. J. Dawood's translation of the Koran and read every word of it, and many parts, many times. I was so horrified by it that I set out on a quest to learn all I could about Islam. I read books about Islam and Arabs, and I read the core documents of Islam. That's my story, and I stick by it.

Oh, and the comment by "Anonymous" about reading the Koran? Well I have eight of them, and I have read them, some more than once. Some of the versions are pabulum written to pull the wool over the eyes of the unsuspecting Westerner by portraying Islam as peaceful, good, and kind, and are concerned solely with making nice. Others tell it like it is in its fully raw state. The Koran has not been hijacked. It is an Islamic war manual that incites Muslims to do what they are doing as jihadists and otherwise be chronic pains in the ass of the world. Muslims have not misinterpreted it. They "get it" and have always "gotten it" just the way it was written and meant to be gotten.

And, I am the wrong person to ask to defend the Bible.

What's so funny about this "misinterpretation" myth is how evil people use it to create the illusion that the evil they espouse is really not what it is. There is a hilarious parallel. The Democrat Party these days sulks about claiming that they did not get their message out to the American people, and that is why G. W. Bush won his second term. People either did not get the message, or the message was misinterpreted, they whine. Wrong! The Democrats lost because Americans got the message loud and clear. The same goes for Islam and all of its documents.

You know, "Anonymous," we read, study, discuss, and think about stuff like Islam. If you want to consider us ignorant, then be advised: We have your number, and we are coming for you. It's a matter of time 'till we get there. We've got to finish rousing and preparing the troops first.

You bet we would take up arms if you brought overt jihad into America. Our zoo carnivores would become utterly obese from your carcasses. Besides, we have taken up arms to go into Islamia to take the fight to your front door since you can't mind your own business. If you want to wear filthy clothes, sit in infested sand, do nothing, think nothing, accomplish nothing, and bitch at the universe because everybody else has gotten off their dead asses to earn their style of living, then do the entire globe a favor: Keep Islam to yourself, along with your squalor. Had you left us alone, well, you know the rest...

And, while we are at it, let's tackle "the Jihad that you are so scared about." We have dealt with the ridiculous term "islamophobic" before on this blog ["Language Morphing and "Islamophobia," 31 January 3005]. It won't hurt to "play it again." We chose the term "Islam expositor" because we expose Islam to the disinfecting sunshine. We are hardly "phobic," other than some life-long acrophobia. But, to be honest, jihad does frighten us some, but only because we have not yet mobilized the great American people properly. When that happens, and it will, "jihad" will become a game in some distant sand boxes.

Finally "Anonymous" quotes from Some Backbone at Last? ANSWER = "NO!" from 15 March 2005 about the Dell settlement with Muslims in Tennessee, and then quips about Bush praying in the White House. Here is the context from that article containing the passage "Anonymous" excerpted (emphasis mine):

The very simple principle is, separation of religion from commerce of any kind.
That means that people are free in this country to adopt any religion, but it is
never more than an individual matter. It is incumbent upon the individual to
find ways to practice his religion that do not step on his contractual obligations, such as providing a day's work for a day's pay.

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, scientology, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.--you name it--stays outside when the worker enters the job work area. He can pick it up again after work. It is not incumbent upon the employer to be "sensitive" to any religion for any reason at any time. It is incumbent upon the employee not to inflict this stuff on others, particularly the employer. Clearly, the employer has the right to set up prayer rooms and provide religious accommodations, but not the obligation.

President Bush praying in the White House in no way compares to Muslim prayer rug rituals five times a day that interfere with the work that they are being paid to do. The job of Mr. Bush being president does not suffer when he prays because he is still on the job. He is on the job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, unlike the Dell employees. If his job performance was physically impaired by praying, I would object.

For what it is worth, the problem with Mr. Bush's religion is not that he takes the time to pray. It is that his beliefs have kept him from seeing the truth about Islam. His religion affects his ability COGNITIVELY to deal with Islam. Had Kerry not been a total Islam appeaser and all around loser, I could have voted for him. However, we had the choice between "bad" and "worse," and I prefer "bad" to "worse." At least Bush will fight the overt jihad, even if he can't see the covert jihad.

Well, this has been fun. To "Anonymous," please write again.