Ragtag Giggagon

The now-retired Pope Benedict made a claim about Islam being too bellicose ten years back. Is the Qu'ran worse than the Bible? Does he read his Bible, in the Aramaic or the Ancient Greek or the Latin or the Hebrew or whatever languages he knows? In German? This former Hitler Youth punk hung up his mitre and his fancy old-skool Santy cloak and the woolly collars (to go with his fin-de-siecle sensibilities) because he suffered a persecution complex while maintaining a stubbornness borne of a closed mind and closed shop. Among other nightmares he faced pre-retirement, when he spoke out about Islam, a nun was killed in Somalia. Every time the pope disses another religion, a nun dies in Africa. [FINGER CLICK!] The terrorists who killed the nun identified as Muslim. The same goes for the people who killed some seventy Christians in the Middle East at the time of the Danish cartoonists causing the hooplah in 2005/6. The Charlie Hebdo satirists see what's going on, and they get a huge ...

Continued from here . Lots of people say "I don't like Muslims!" I take issue with plenty to be found in so-called Islamic culture. There's far too much misogyny, too much weight given over to conspiracy theories about Israel and 9-11, too much exploitation, too much racism on the Saudi peninsula, too much genocide in Africa. And the world is getting too long-in-the-tooth now for cultural relativism that allows for any kind of that shit. Islam gets the same respect and disrespect as any other religion. But this point has been made:  sharing racist political cartoons from increasingly-fascist-xenophobic europe in "solidarity" is like posting rape jokes for free speech — Naan Partisan (@ElSangito) January 8, 2015 Hat tip to the inestimable Ming Holden for retweeting it. Would world leaders turn up in Paris if radical feminists had killed satirists over rape cartoons? Although they threw themselves under horses back in the day, feminists don't behav...