Cowboy Confessional

It appears that cultural sensitivity involves, in no small part, eradication of neurons in the brain’s left hemisphere.

Thankfully, this ailment is largely restricted to politicians and other zealots.

News recently broke about the building of a community center near Ground Zero, the central target of the 9/11 massacre. That bloodshed was executed by zealots of the muslim variety (not to be confused with Christian brand zealots, like the Florida preacher promoting ‘International Burn a Koran Day’).  The community center will have a number of amenities, including a large auditorium, fitness center and a mosque.  In simpler language, some New York locals of the Muslim faith decided to build a center of Muslim worship within eyesight of the place where Muslim zealots killed a few thousand people guilty of nothing more than showing up to work on time.

So much for cultural sensitivity.

Wikipedia claims that “cultural sensitivity” means “the quality of being aware and accepting of other cultures.”  Culture is defined as “the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular … group”, in this instance, Homo Americanus.  While Americans in general, and people of tie-dye set in particular, strive to be aware and (when appropriate) respectful of other cultures, the klan behind this new mosque isn’t.  They are either such insensitive louts that their presence in polite society should evaporate faster than flesh in an inferno (you know, like a burning sky scraper), or they purposefully push envelopes to test the patience of the American public and make a statement concerning a successful assault.

It appears to be the latter.

Figure-heading the project is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who believes what many potentates and terrorists do – that Islamic law (Sharia in particular) is paramount.  Mere months before this ruckus over erecting a mosque near the Twin Tower ruins, Imam Rauf said:

“Throughout my discussions with contemporary Muslim theologians, it is clear an Islamic state can be established in more than just a single form or mold. It can be established through a kingdom or a democracy. The important issue is to establish the general fundamentals of Sharia that are required to govern. It is known that there are sets of standards that are accepted by [Muslim] scholars to organize the relationships between government and the governed.”

The American theory of government works in reverse.  Government is what is governed by the people – government obeys or government gets replaced.  In order to insure this remains the case, almost every aspect of personal privilege was left to The People, including the right to shout Amen in a revival tent, utter Hebrew from under a yarmulke, or kiss a rug a five times a day (and if you want a religion incompatible with America’s traditions, then Islam is very far afield – you can’t get the average American protestant to church except on Easter and Christmas, so praying five times each day constitutes having a second job, and an unpaid one at that).    Thus the Imam’s idiocy is not only in believing any religion reflects Gawd’s thinking, but in believing that inserting one or another prophet’s poetry over American law will produce results aside from snickers and redneck retaliations.

Don’t be surprised if a contingent of pissed off Bubbas show-up for the first prayer recital at the new mosque.

Here we see at play so many oddities about American culture that even people outside of the media couldn’t count them all.  First, there is no legal way the mosque can be prevented.  The same First Amendment that guarantees your church a building permit – even if your preacher is Baptist and the church site is outside of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral – also guarantees the Idiot Imam’s horde can build a mosque despite their utter lack of cultural sensitivity over location and the obvious arson risk therein (any insurance company that covers the mosque construction project is staffed by people unfamiliar with risk assessment).  Conservatives basted Obama – what a beautiful vision that is – when he said in part that Muslims “… have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.  That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.”

In this case Obama got something right, but even a blind elephant finds his nuts once in a while.

Another aspect of the First Amendment – wherein government is prevented from preventing exercise of any religion – is the prohibition against restraining speech, a freedom people loudly exercised after the blatant display of cultural insensitivity by your imama.  Even supporters of the mosque showed up to speak, uttering inanities like “We don’t care what bigots say …” and thus demonstrating a cultural insensitivity unheard of since the irritating imam last orated.  The First Amendment also means the government can’t mess with the press, who are covering the story for all the wrong reasons, proving that there is at least one constant in the universe.

In countries with no freedom of the press, speech or religion – which oddly are primarily muslim – the debate of where the mosque should not be built is causing a few hot heads to heat up, nearly setting their collective turbans on fire.  Unable to get the average muslim to think America is any real threat to their faith (thanks to professionalism of Americans in two recent wars), Mohammad’s maniacs are using the squabble to miff other mulims.

Let’s check the fanatic scoreboard thus far:  A muslim imam instigates a ruckus through cultural insensitivity if not outright arrogance (muslims 1).  Some Americans, after spewing coffee over their morning newspapers, object to the mosque’s location (have to score that one a null).  Some allegedly sensitive Americans of the touch-feely sect call the former group ‘bigots’ (stupid people 1).  Members of the Friends of Osama use America’s public dissention to recruit their next flock of airline pilots and smoldering underpants experts (muslims 2).  Various politicians make the matter worse (stupid people 365,217) and the media eggs everybody on (stupid people … see googol).

Meanwhile Iran, the first modern Islamic theocracy, is one step closer to building nuclear weapons while Barack Obama does zilch (stupid people +1).  Guess over what issue World War III will erupt?

I don’t know where Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is today, though ‘in hiding’ might be a good guess.  Not hiding out of shame mind you, for anyone who would even consider erecting a mosque near ground zero has none.  Yet after the uproar he has yet to admit his mistake, which means he doesn’t believe it to be one.  If after reflecting on the objections of Americans over this affront, the imam persists in the project as planned, I wouldn’t pay a nickel for the land at Park Place and Broadway.  Piles of cinders are rarely worth anything.

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In support of sanity, free speech, and getting jihadist morons to pay attention, I gladly join in on this, the first annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day. Bin Laden, bite me.

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Would Obama backers bomb buildings to bust baggers?

This is a disturbing notion.  In reaction to the Tea Party movement (which we have already seen is composed of a peaceful, multi-racial, pan-sexual, multi-generational Americans) some players planned on crashing the Tea Party events.  Their tactic was to dress and act in ways similar to how they incorrectly stereotype Tea Party members.  They planned on carrying racist banners, act like trailer trash, talk in threatening manners, all with the intent of getting the media to misreport the essence of the Tea Party itself.

So would they bomb a building?

We have already confirmed that people who dislike the Tea Party (and by proxy dislike freedom) will lie, disrupt and discredit.  They have openly demonstrated willingness to violate codes of honor, civil discourse, and fundamental honesty in order to silence opposition.  Their stated goal was to make the rest of America fear and loath the Tea Party.

The question on the table:  Where is their limit?  To what disreputable extents will they go in order to achieve their goals?

To answer this question, we have to investigate the moral equation in the collective heads of any group.  People who are center-right tend to be law-and-order, God worshiping orientation (and hence biblical-law obeying) and in-your-face honest.  Alternately, people with socialists/communist fetishes (which do not include the vaguely center-left masses) have a long and well documented history of believing that the ends justify all means.  It ranges from the comparatively innocent Tea Party crashers to Pol Pot’s mass murder.  The sentiment is the same – ignore moral imperatives, just get the job done.

Kinda like the way they passed Obamacare.

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Has Allah turned his back on Usama?

Being one of those rare critters who believes there is a God, but who also realizes mine is merely a belief, I shake my head at people who are frighteningly certain.  No mortal can prove or disprove the existence of a being beyond human comprehension – it is a logical impossibility.  Thus the atheist is as ignorant as the Pope, though the Pope’s line of work appears to be a bit more profitable.

You would think with all the Vatican’s money they could afford to buy the Pope a better looking hat.

Thus, every flavor of religious zealot postulating on God’s will is, ipso facto, an imbecile, charlatan or professional thief.  Pat Robertson’s claim that Haiti suffers due to an unprovable deal with the Devil assumes either God a passive aggressive with homicidal tendencies, or that the Devil actually has muscle.  Either way it is pure speculation designed not to increase enlightenment but to increase revenue.

Pat is a discount version of the Pope.

The inability of theologians to admit their collective cluelessness makes giving kudos to Islamic madmen painful.  Yet I am forced to acknowledge that jihadist psychopaths have the minor advantage of uncertainty.  While promoting their mass murder, they routinely utter “Allah willing,” a sign that they understand God’s will is both uncertain and indeterminable.

Which is why it is safe to say that Allah has abandoned Usama.

If we stipulate that there is a God and that he/she/it is active in the daily mismanagement of the human race, then Usama bin Laden’s latest radio rant is further evidence that Allah is unwilling to help Usama or his cruel cause.  While claiming to be behind the failed “underwear bomber”, and to be the sponsor of Palestinian violence, bin Laden says quite bluntly “God willing, our raids on you will continue as long as your support for the Israelis continues.”

So Usama, how’s that going for you?  Let’s tally a scorecard, shall we?  After 9/11 and your slaughtering 3,000 people who were guilty only of arriving at work on time, what has happened to your cause?

• Your base in Afghanistan was eradicated and your central command was cast to the winds, thrown into disarray.

• Allah willed that Iraq be invaded, and that by exposure to American soldiers, lies about Americans were unmasked.

• Your top field commanders have been killed or captured, including the stout Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (really, given the desert diet he was on before capture, you would think he would have dropped a few pounds).

• The kill ratio between soldiers and your men in Pakistan is 10:1 against you.

• Iran, the progenitor of Islamic revolution and state-sponsored terror, is surrounded by coalition forces and on the verge of being bombed by the Israelis.

• Your boy on the flight 253 couldn’t even ignite his britches correctly, scorching his junk (talk about a hot date).

So Usama, what has been Allah’s will?  Unless God is on a prolonged nap, it would appear that his/her/its will opposes yours.  Allah is whizzing in your face and having hearty laugh while doing so (well, if I were God I certainly would be).  If the Old Testament is anywhere near accurate, locust swarms exiting your arse will be next, and your 72 virgins will all be teenage male computer nerds with Star Trek fetishes.

Or if Allah has a really warped sense of humor, your own men will kill you in your sleep and dump your carcass into an unmarked grave.  Cold, inconspicuous death for the world’s most prolific living mass murderer has the subtle irony that only a divine being could carry out.

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Shortly after 9/11, I said that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Iran.

Being a strategist by nature, bin Laden knew that once the Twin Towers collapsed, he would be a hunted man. He also would have realized that hiding in the mountains of Tora Bora would make him findable and killable — no strategist would ever consider escaping into a wide-open dead-end alley or a place that could be nuked without regret.

However, slipping into Iran offered bin Laden both protection and production facilities necessary to continue the propaganda end of his global terror operation. In post 9/11 video tapes we see bin Laden in clean clothes, in climate controlled rooms and otherwise looking like your typical urban Arab. He was not hiding in a cave — he was hiding in a penthouse.

Today comes word that some of Osama’s closest kin have been seen in an Iranian compound. A wife and kid who were in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks have been spotted outside Tehran, and they have contacted bin Laden family elsewhere. The most innocent reading of this news shows that bin Laden had an operational understanding with the Iranian theocracy, providing his immediate family shelter. A more strategic reading indicates that Osama scooted west, not east, after the towers fell.

And now Iran is making nuclear bombs.

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