Thursday, March 02, 2006
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND JESSICA SIMPSON
By Tweed
Ever notice what happens when some rube becomes famous, thrown into the spotlight and made the center of pop culture?
They show their true colors: they indulge every fantasy every adolescent girl from the heartland has; they wear trashy clothes; show-off their T&A; and generally act like idiots. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
How about when some cultist makes it big. He's out there letting it all hang out - and gives cults a bad name.
Which is pretty much what the Muslem world has done since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Up until Osama bin Laden and all those evildoers actually succeeded in striking US soil with a terrorist attacks, Islam has been on the red carpet. But, not unlike Tom Cruise after his recent public displays of Scientologyisms, the Islamic world has behaved like an idiot.
Unknown Egyptian Protesting Image of the Prophet
Remember when Nick whatshisface and Jessica Simpson decided to video their wedding and life for the audience? Or when Tom Cruise nearly attacked Oprah when professing his . . . something on her show?
How different is that, really, from Muslims burning a Danish flag to protest a cartoon?
Scientologists Protesting Travolta's "Battlefield Earth"
I think the western world would do well to keep in mind that the Muslim world is fairly new to this whole "modern world" and "civilization" thing. These are people who live and die by their passionate religious faith, much in the same way Britney Spears lives and dies by glitter make-up. They are new to this thing of ours. They do not have civil society. They have not seen the benfits of tolerance, of a distinction between public and private society, or of a bit of humility. For them their religious society is all there is.
State Department Educational Skit
So, the next time there are riots in Iran because of some off-hand slight of the prophet, just remember Nick and Jessica.
Ever notice what happens when some rube becomes famous, thrown into the spotlight and made the center of pop culture?
They show their true colors: they indulge every fantasy every adolescent girl from the heartland has; they wear trashy clothes; show-off their T&A; and generally act like idiots. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
How about when some cultist makes it big. He's out there letting it all hang out - and gives cults a bad name.
Which is pretty much what the Muslem world has done since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Up until Osama bin Laden and all those evildoers actually succeeded in striking US soil with a terrorist attacks, Islam has been on the red carpet. But, not unlike Tom Cruise after his recent public displays of Scientologyisms, the Islamic world has behaved like an idiot.
Unknown Egyptian Protesting Image of the Prophet
Remember when Nick whatshisface and Jessica Simpson decided to video their wedding and life for the audience? Or when Tom Cruise nearly attacked Oprah when professing his . . . something on her show?
How different is that, really, from Muslims burning a Danish flag to protest a cartoon?
Scientologists Protesting Travolta's "Battlefield Earth"
I think the western world would do well to keep in mind that the Muslim world is fairly new to this whole "modern world" and "civilization" thing. These are people who live and die by their passionate religious faith, much in the same way Britney Spears lives and dies by glitter make-up. They are new to this thing of ours. They do not have civil society. They have not seen the benfits of tolerance, of a distinction between public and private society, or of a bit of humility. For them their religious society is all there is.
State Department Educational Skit
So, the next time there are riots in Iran because of some off-hand slight of the prophet, just remember Nick and Jessica.
