Right On Cue: The Excitable One Gets, Well, Excited

Fucking idiot:

If you need further proof that this administration's abandonment of clear Geneva guidelines has clearly undermined the war, then read this [a link to the body-burning story]. The use of religion to taunt and torment the enemy has been going on for a long time now. From smearing inmates with fake menstrual blood, to desecrating the Koran, to forcing one Abu Ghraib prisoner to drink alcohol and eat pork, to burning Muslim corpses facing West ... we now have a litany of abuses that are objectively evil and almost designed to lose us support among the broad Muslim population.

Andrew Sullivan has a wonderfully stupid position on the War. Prosecute it brutally and mercilessly, but, by all means, be scrupulously polite about doing so.

Now he's steamed because we're gay-baiting cowards who come from a homophobic culture. Oh, and we called them cowards for not claiming their dead. And we burned rotting, disease-incubating terrorist bodies.

Is it possible to get gay marriage laws passed in Afghanistan? Can't the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court make some goofy claim of jurisdiction over that state? Seems they rather easily claimed jurisdiction over a matter expressly left to legislators in the Massachusetts Constitution.

Ann Coulter had an interesting point. If, as many "tolerant" folks claim, jihadism is a "perversion" of "true Islam," and terrorists are not in fact practicing real Islamic faith (The Religion of Peace (TM)), then why do those same sort of folks continue insisting these putative heretics be treated with all the panoply of rituals associated with "true Islam"?

And why is it, exactly, that we are expected to respect Muslim traditions (no war during Ramadan) that Muslims themselves tend to take a more lenient attitude about?

I've seen accused Palestinian informers being dragged through the streets until the skin was flayed off their muscles. Presumably this was okay, because they were at least being dragged-to-death in the direction of Mecca, I suppose?

Thanks to Allah.

posted by Ace at 11:54 AM

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