Make Fun Of The Prophet... And Die!

Mohammad Comic
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

There's been a lot of hub-bub about the so-called venerable prophet Mohammad getting skewered in European (mainly Danish) political cartoons -- and it has the Arab world up in arms (like that's something new).

From what I can tell, the Europeans have been satirizng Mohammad for quite some time, and it's only now that it's boiled over...

But the fact the Arabs are tripping points to the fact that they are basically perverting one of the tenants of Islam -- which is tolerance. YEAH! You wouldn't know it, by the way the Arabs behave. But you have to look at it this way: Arab culture took claim of Islam and the rulers and reactionary clerics have systematically used it to continue to oppress the people. Everything that hinders so-called progress (in terms of what the Occidental economics would call progress) can be justified by the Arab elite by turning to the Quran or siting something Mohammad said.

And keeping the people down is what the Arabian oligarchs do best -- better than anybody on the planet, maybe in the history of the world...

Check this out -- I was reading an interview with the State Department's press liaison, and she made a remark that tripped me out. When she was in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi women were upset at Bush and the U.S. Government for permitting Oprah to do a show about sexual repression in the Muslim world. Indicating that in the Muslim world the citizenery is so ignorant (and sheltered) as to think that Oprah's show is a government program. They honestly believe that. It's easy to see why... in their frame of reference TV and all its programming is controled by the fat, wealthy as hell rulers, sanctioned by clerics and thus there is no creatively free shows or shows that operates with a license to say what they want without repuercussions (like getting your tongue cut the fuck out!).

In the eyes of the liberal West, Islam and Mohammad are just plump and juicy ripe for satire and comedy. I have to believe that something will pop up on South Park (I never watch the show anymore, but know that scandalize Jesus and the Devil).

Arab culture needs to take the reins off, get sucked up in the maelstrom of conspicuous consumption and abusive capitalism -- then religion can get attacked, questioned, revered, and celebrated the way it is in the West... but will that ever happen?

Nah -- the Arabs have been trippin' since before the time of Caesar, they'll keep trippin' forever if you ask me.