Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Three people died yesterday as more than 70,000 demonstrators took part in Pakistan's biggest protest against cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Street demonstrators in Peshawar torched a KFC to teach the West a lesson. Although local fast-food franchises are owned and operated by Pakistanis, they have often been targeted as symbols of the West. Three cinemas were also burnt in the conservative frontier city.

Well, the Pakistanis really showed us, didn't they! Tens of millions of Americans and Europeans are sitting around today absolutely terrified. How will we sleep knowing the citizens of Peshawar will have to rent DVDs because there are no longer movie theatres? How will we go on with our lives knowing they will have to eat Taco Bell 24/7 because the other fast food joints have been set ablaze? It is all just too much to handle.

On another sad, sick note, the Supreme Mufti of the Central Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of Russia (How does this asshole get his title on his business card?) said that gays who participate in Moscow Pride should be thrashed. He wasn't alone in his bigotry, as the principal rabbi of Russia joined the fray. Rabbi Berl Lazar told the Russian news agency InterFax that if the Gay Pride parade was allowed to go ahead it "would be a blow for morality."

You just have to admire the love spread by our religious leaders. Without their compassion and spiratual guidance, where would the world be?

Maybe enjoying peace...

8 Comments:

Great commentary. It is a shame that there is so much hatred out there.

Jill in Vancouver
posted by Anonymous, at 2/15/2006 10:59 PM

Those cartoons only lit the fuse on a tinderbox of resentment and hatred that's been building for decades, including the invasion of iraq and the abu ghraib pix. A culture that still bitches about the crusades and parses out its revenge over centuries will not be making peace with the west for a LONG time--if ever!
Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at 2/16/2006 9:53 AM

I wonder if the Supreme Muffdiver of Russia has a copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in his office?!?!
posted by Anonymous, at 2/16/2006 9:55 AM

If it weren't so tragic, it would be almost comical to think that it takes hatred of gay people to get Jewish and Muslim leaders to agree on something.
posted by Steve, Geneva, IL, at 2/16/2006 12:31 PM

I'm glad they burned down KFC instead of Popeye's!
posted by Chris L., at 2/16/2006 2:14 PM

Yeah, they've had terrible abuses of chickens in their factory farms--fuck the colonel.
posted by Anonymous, at 2/16/2006 3:33 PM

This MINO (Muslim In Name Only) who is labeled a 'mufti', along with this so-called rabbi and the priests who abused the principles of the Orthodox Church, will become the new Stalins.

Lux
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