A bit o’ the nose
Dutch MP Geert Wilders (Google Images)
Despite a plethora of absurd legal complaints against him in the Netherlands, not to mention the recent Jordanian attempt to collect him to stand trial in Amman for blasphemy, courageous Dutch politician Geert Wilders is now planning a sequel to his controversial film FITNA, it was announced Tuesday in an Amsterdam daily.
It remains to be seen what sort of film Mr. Wilders is planning. To be sure, without risking redundancy there remain uncited by Wilders plenty of offensive passages in the Koran to illustrate the canonical source of jihad violence, if his intention is in fact to pick up where he left off. Truly, if Muslims are incensed by the relatively tame FITNA, they may be in for quite a shock, considering all the Islamic scripture that jihadists routinely quote to justify violence and hatred in the name of Allah. The great majority of that material didn’t make the cut in Wilders’ first movie, but he may just be frustrated enough to go for broke this time around.
What would you do if radical Islamists threatened your life while many of your own people and prominent elements in your own government insisted that you are the criminal? Just try to imagine the stress under which Mr. Wilders must operate, with complaints, threats, fatwahs, charges, proceedings, and vile incriminations coming relentlessly from all quarters. Would you pull out your Edvard Grieg records and sit down to create yet more of that which presently has multitudes hating you? Would you thumb your nose at them all? That takes some super-sized cojones.
My lifelong friend Jimmy Ryan, an octogenarian Irish janitor, accustomed in his time to having his cojones under someone or another’s boot, used to call it, defiantly, despite the anguish, no matter the pain—and the consequences be damned—giving the bastards “a bit o’ the nose.”
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What would I do if Muslims threatened my life?
Maybe I’d shape up and stop antagonizing them.
That’s what a sane person would do.
No, Joe. That’s what a pussy would do.
Is it Average Joe or Average Jihadist? I think you need to spend some time at CTU!
Now you’ve gone and done it, Joe. You’ve stupidly riled Jack Bauer. You see, that’s one of the many problems with avoiding antagonizing the bad guys: You thereby antagonize the good guys.
LOL, Jack. But not CTU. What are you thinking?
Everyone escapes from CTU.
CTU? Uh . . . Catholic Theological Union?
You have GOT to get a television, Darryl. CTU stands for Counterterrorism Unit, a fictitious agency on Fox’s 24. On the show, Jack interrogates (tortures) the world’s worst terrorists there, but they always seem to escape, which probably makes Average Joe celebrate like Palestinians on 9/11.
Regards,
HAID
Well, now I am confused. All I know is, we send our theology students there. I must ask them about their classes in enhanced interrogation techniques.
Maybe Darryl should ask if the CTU students have a waterboarding team. I hear Jack Bauer was the captain, but I could be wrong.
Stopped insulting our religion (Muslim) ,
Islam not the religion teroris Islam was the religion that the
peace & love, and don’t you considered Islam the terrorist’s religion because of the person’s action that was not responsible,
Were you not offended if you were insulted.
” Stopped insulting us “
I’m afraid Islam IS the terrorists’ religion, awam, but I don’t see how that is any insult to you. You should be insulted by the jihadis who in fact claim they act in the name of Islam and in service of Allah. And in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a Hell of a lot of them, and they appear to be increasing in number.
When they grow finally to outnumber us and are able to exterminate every last one of us, you the peaceful Indonesian Muslim will have a choice to ally yourself with peaceful infidels fighting for our lives or with pious Muslim jihadists. Which will you choose?
You can tell me all about peace and love as soon as you are more insulted by jihadis justifying slaughter from Islamic scripture and doctrine than by me and Geert Wilders, who only point out that they do so.
Peace,
HAID