Y’know, I always hoped this was a sick joke. It does sound like something out of the Goon Show, or Monty Python, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, or The Colbert Report.
UPDATE: Reader Stanislaw Pak points me to this version, which apparently is the original. So the image above was altered to make it ironic.
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But they’re back: Sudanese Muslims call for the death of a public school teacher who let small children name a toy bear after a classmate named Muhammad. Why don’t they get right to the source and execute the children?
Now that they’ve proved that Islam is violent, perhaps we could let them stew in their own self-created misery, and just give refugee status to any apostate, atheist, or woman who wants to leave the country.
While they’re working themselves up into a frenzy, let’s hope there are some rational elements out there. Anyone?
Thursday, 17 July 2008 at 07:53
[...] the insanity. There is a coevolutionary process between the forces of sanity and insanity. The more ridiculous one side gets the more incentive people on the other will have to sharpen their tools. Coevolution [...]
Thursday, 17 July 2008 at 19:52
Yes, it was interesting to read the tale of the student who was assaulted in a Catholic church for trying to carry his consecrated wafer back to the pew to show it to his friend, and then the overheated rhetoric about how taking a wafer home was worse than kidnapping, and the death threats against a science blogger for offering to disrespect a consecrated cracker if someone would send him one.