You were the best of us.
There is not going to be a second Hitchens, and you have influenced so many by your way of being, of fighting for the truth and saying what is in your heart.
You will be missed.
Humanity in Progress
Hehe, no, its just Jews he wants to kill (all of them, babies and old alike), and in any case its just a joke, a silly little joke, no need to get crazy over it. Right?
Well, its pretty racist to say you have no choice but to kill someone just because of them being born into a culture, country, religion or color of any kind, but since this is a joke it is just a racist joke.
If a Jewish actor or a stand up comedian (there are a few of those I think) would make a poor joke about punishing Dieudonné for his stupidity by raping each one of his five children, it would also be a stupid and racist joke, because these children did not choose this person as their father, they have no control over what he does and says, why pick on small kids? (if they are not Jewish, that is).
And many times there are people who are only part Jewish, lets say someone who had a Jewish Grandmother, should he be killed? maybe we should just cut off his limbs, or just one hand and half a leg. Or a Jewish baby that has been taken from his family, he will grow up not knowing he is Jewish, should he still be killed? or a Jewish 6 year old girl in Paris, should we stab her in the heart and cut her stomach open, take her heart out and burn her body in the street? hehe – just a joke.
(this guy is a French comedian, already heavily involved in far-right activity and has some racist issues in his past, he is controversial and very blunt, however in his last production he has probably demonstrated how blind hater of any other group can deform your intelligence and sense of humor)
It looks like the head of the Catholic Church does advance with time, here he is using a tablet computer to set a mountain alight with the Christmas spirit. It is a shame that the same people find it so hard to do the same when this comes to sex and condoms, because just moving the bar a little and saying that condoms can save people from AIDS will start healing millions on Africans who simply do not know any better.
If you can use iPads you could probably also tell the world that condoms are just great, and allow Africa to start preventing AIDS from killing so many of its people, do this good grace this christmas.
“We love truism, but hate foreigners” welcome to the new Egypt.
The new plan is to force tourists to adapt to Islamic values, including a ban on bikinis and mixed beaches, and of course not a drop of alcohol. To be honest it does make sense, a country that wants to keep a tight religious cover, weather we like it or not, should probably want to keep people who are not aligned with that mindset away, but Egypt is a little different because it has so much riding on tourism and especially that kind that comes from Europe and very much likes its vacations to be soaked in alcohol.
So this brings the first cultural clash to this new democracy, will it let foreigners do what they do and count on its own people to keep a religious way of life or will it force visitors as well as locals to abide by the rule of Islam. Needless to say that forcing anyone into anything is probably something democracies should not have, especially if it is done in the name of a non existent god.
As you can probably guess this blog stands firmly for the right of anyone to express himself, and the right of anyone else to be offended by it, and that’s just as much words we need to waste on this obvious issue. So it was somewhat of a surprise to see the name Lars Vilks in the news, the immediate emotion was fear, fear that some crazy Islamist has murdered Mr. Vilks for his cartoon, almost 6 years ago, but it was not that, just the news of 3 people getting together to try and murder him for the same thing.
6 Years! come on, there must be an expiration date for being offended by a cartoon. Seems that the eagerness to murder and kill infidels is stronger that many other things, and if there is an excuse for it, why, that is almost crazy to resist.
These are people who do not move on, they a obsessive fixated on the sixth century, some 1,400 years ago, in the desert of Arabia. To waste your time plotting to murder a cartoonist who, six years ago, published a cartoon that made you angry.
Just the degree of seriousness on this issue should alarm anyone who is anywhere close to being normal.