Let me see if I’ve got this right:

1) It’s not OK to publicly threaten someone with death unless you’re Muslim and they are not.

2) It’s not OK to discriminate against women, force them to wear shapeless bags on those few occasions that you allow them out of the house, kill them (even you own sister if you want!) if you catch them as much as talking to a male not approved of by the family, stone them to death if they have had an affair, put them in jail for the crime of being raped, not allowed to drive a car, hold an un-approved job, etc., unless you and/or they are Muslim.

3) Freedom of speech is a god-given right, unless you are talking to, about, with, in the company of a Muslim, or in any other way that might contact any Muslim ever from now until the end of time.

4) Its a crime to have sex with under-age girls, unless your a Muslim and then you can marry her at the age of 7 and have sex with her at the age of 9…….whether she wants to get married/have sex or not.

5) What you and whoever you partner do in private is your own business, except if you are Muslim, in which case you may be beaten, stoned to death, buried alive, hung or simply shot for what the “Church” calls “un-Islamic acts”.

6) The right to protect yourself is a right that has existed always in all living creatures from the moment God created them, unless your being attacked by a Muslim, in which case you have the right to stand there and take it, even if that means you and your family die, or for that matter if your entire nation is destroyed.

7) It’s the world’s responsibility to save uncounted people in uncounted places in Africa from genocide (sorry, I’m not allowed to say who is doing the killing, see the rule above) unless your a Muslim. In which case it doesn’t matter how many people die, after all, they weren’t/aren’t Muslims. The only exception here is if it is Muslims getting killed, in which case the entire nation where it occurred must be “cleared” of all non Muslims, then all nations that had even the most tenuous connection to the perpetrators must be “converted” for inciting it (after all, it’s always the fault of the non-Muslim). PS rumors count here as fact.

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45,728) Honour and loyalty are traits that should be demonstrated in all of your dealings with all people, unless your a Muslim, in which case you only owe loyalty to other Muslims, unless, of course, they are not your brand of Muslim, umm, unless they are a business rival, from another town, listening to a different Imam, etc….

45,729) Vengeance is to be meted out by God, unless your a Muslim, in which case vengeance is the province of man in the guise of the morality police (or any other “pious Muslim”), who may or may not decide to kill you and your family, burn your business, etc.

I’ve already gone on too long, but you get the point. What I would like to see is someone on the far left explain how all the above and volumes more squares with their liberal view of the world. “Not better or worse, just different” is crap. The first barrier is to get the left-winger to get past that one, to be able to say “living in our society is better than living in one ruled by a pre-medieval, genocidal (even against themselves), discriminating, misogynistic theocracy ruled by tribal warlord and governed by the rule of the sword (gun, bomb, chlorine gas, radioactive agents, RPGs, or whatever else that can be gotten in hand) as directed by religious leader who are impervious to irony, immune to logic, and completely dismissive about the value of human life.

I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I wonder often how such a (to me at the time) beautiful movement with such high ideals became such a champion and purveyor of hate, discrimination and murder.

P. James Moriarty on April 24, 2007 at 1:46 AM