On NOT Surrendering to stinking stupid superstitious savagery [updated]

"When we allow the possible reaction of stinking stupid superstitious savages who have declared war on us
to determine what we do or don't do in life, we have already surrendered to them."
- Lindsay Perigo

Pastor Terry Jones might have been an idiot, but he had the right idea: irreverence. Irreverence towards that which deserves none.  Irreverence, that is, towards the Koran and all the Injustice, Intolerance, Contradictions, Absurdities, and Cruelty and Violence in it, and all the violent stinking savagery done in its name.

That the savages who talk about “massacre,” “extermination,” and “beheadings”—not to mention those who carry them out—get so aroused by simple irreverence towards their Book suggests, says Paul McKeever, that irreverence is the west’s unacknowledged ‘intellectual H-Bomb’—and by that metric Danish cartoonists are still the west’s front line, while General Petraeus and Defence Secretary Gates (who complained about Jones’s planned conflagration) are the west’s Peaceniks.

Why [do] some Muslims would get so upset that some utter nobody in Florida is planning to burn some copies of the Quran [wondered McKeever on Friday]. He isn’t proposing the destruction of a mosque. He isn’t threatening to bring elections to a theocratic country. And his burning of the Quran won’t stop a single person from reading it. Why the anger? What is the threat?
    The answer is: irreverence. At its root, it is an expressed and offensive denial of something that someone else holds as a value.
    Irreverence is expressed in many ways. One of the most potent is ridicule. In his book Rules for Radicals, leftist activist Saul Alinsky wrote insightfully:

         “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it
      infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”

   … Book burning is not ridicule, but it is certainly irreverence… The outrage we now see around the globe about Reverend Jones’ plan to burn the Quran is founded upon the knowledge that irreverence is a potent weapon in its defence against the advance of Islam and Islamic tyranny. Those threatening or implying destruction, violence, or murder will be the response to the Reverend’s conduct know, full well, that his simple act of putting flame to paper harms their cause more than any attack helicopter or stealth bomber. He is not only lighting up a book, but causing minds to switch on and attend to the task of shaking off North America’s timid moral subjectivism at least enough to condemn the belief system that, at present, poses the greatest threat to individual freedom, to the individual’s ability to pursue his own happiness, and to the ability of man to identify and harness the facts of reality…
    In reality, irreverence is the West’s intellectual H-bomb. The General, and the Defence Minister, and all of the others begging or threatening Jones not to proceed with the burning are the West’s intellectual peaceniks. Though they are quite willing to blow billions on physical weapons and electoral systems that cannot – even theoretically – fight effectively the spread of irrationality and evil, they are simultaneously calling for a self-imposed shelving of one of the West’s most effective weapons. While the Islamists teach their brethren to club Western “infidels” with “dirty kuffar” irreverence – even in mosques located in the West – the intellectual peaceniks are calling for the West to dismantle its entire stockpile of intellectual nukes; to simultaneously tolerate Islam’s irreverence for reason and freedom; to sit in non-judgmental silence for the blade to be put to our throats.
    Screw that.

So by that standard, there is only one important question to answer:  “Bible or Koran – which burns best?”

Or maybe two important questions: :”Why Burn It When You Can Wipe Your Ass With It?”

 

Oh, here’s three things you might not know (but should) about the religion promoted in that Book:

UPDATE: I’ve argued in the past that the Islamic world urgently needs its own Enlightenment to release it from its stinking superstitions, just as the west had theirs. Fortunately, more enlightened Muslims are appearing around the world.  Recent sightings include one of North America’s largest and most powerful Muslim organizations the Muslim Canadian Congress. who have spoken up in outrage against the ideology of Jihad, calling for Muslims in Canada to “stem this evil” and to address this "serious problem among Canadian Muslim youth".

Salma Siddiqui, the Muslim Canadian Congress vice-president said in a telephone interview that she was “livid and frustrated” that young Muslim men were still being seduced by the idea of fighting a holy war in the name of Islam.
“It has to stop,” she said.

Raheel Raza, also of the Muslim Canadian Congress went even further in this article when she admitted that...

“This is not something that comes as a total surprise . . . we have a problem…"

 

Story here.

And then there’s this chap,

an American Moslem activist who, through his American Islamic Forum for Democracy, champions "separation of mosque and state," calls for "reform" of his religion, and hopes to lead a worldwide pro-"individual rights" intellectual movement among the "silent majority of Moslems." (The preceding terms in quotes are all his.) Many Moslems, according to this activist, have already, "through their practice, ... reformed their faith."
    Dr. Zudhi Jasser, the son of Syrian immigrants, has seen that, "the struggles faced by my family ... have followed us to the United States." He has decided to take a stand, and he can be heard below outlining his ideas and plans in a speech to the Oslo Freedom Forum 2010.

The man stands in marked contrast to the brainwashed savages pictured at the top of the post. Says Gus Van Horn, from whom I took the story, “In a time when it can often seem like every Moslem is an enemy of freedom, it is encouraging to see someone like this… Fascinatingly, Jasser notes that many Moslems are presented with a false dichotomy between "secular fascism" and theocracy regarding the relationship between their religion and the state… If Jasser is right, then perhaps his efforts to promote freedom (which he sometimes calls "the third alternative") can gain ground quickly.”