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I’ve said it before but
A god who wants people to MURDER other people for disputing or laughing at or drawing cartoons of or sharing cartoons of that god or any of that god’s children or holy spirits or prophets or hairdressers or chauffeurs or button-polishers
is an EVIL god and not anything to be worshiped.
… a man
whodecapitated a teacher with a large kitchen knife near a school in a Paris suburb after he showed his class caricatures of the prophet Muhammad from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
For some reason the Guardian decided to lead with the fact that the police shot the man, but fuck that, the core fact is that the man MURDERED a teacher and cut off his head. Over fucking cartoons. Of a long-dead “prophet” of a shitty patriarchal bloodthirsty religion centered on a god that doesn’t exist.
The victim was a 47-year-old history-geography professor – the subjects are taught together in France – but also gave the obligatory courses in “moral and civil education”. It was as part of these, and while talking about freedom of speech, that the professor showed pupils, aged 12 to 14, the caricatures. This sparked complaints from a number of parents and one family lodged a legal complaint.
And so the teacher was slaughtered in the street. That’s fine then. The “prophet” is avenged.
After the contested lesson, an angry parent posted a video on YouTube complaining about the teacher. On Friday night, another parent posted below the video, defending the professor, writing: “I am a parent of a student at this college. The teacher just showed caricatures from Charlie Hebdo as part of a history lesson on freedom of expression. He asked the Muslim students to leave the classroom if they wished, out of respect … He was a great teacher. He tried to encourage the critical spirit of his students, always with respect and intelligence. This evening, I am sad, for my daughter, but also for teachers in France. Can we continue to teach without being afraid of being killed?”
Can religion get in the sea?
Macron, sombre and visibly moved, spoke briefly after visiting the college where the murdered professor worked. “One of our compatriots was assassinated today because he taught. He taught his students about freedom of expression, freedom to believe or not believe. It was a cowardly attack. He was the victim of a terrorist Islamist attack,” Macron said.
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“This evening I want to say to teachers all over France, we we are with them, the whole nation is with them today and tomorrow. We must protect them, defend them, allow them to do their job and educate the citizens of tomorrow.”
The citizens. Not the slaves of a god and its prophet, but the citizens.
Allah is obviously easily upset. Sounds to me like he/she/it might actually be a toddler god who managed to get out of his divine day nursery up there somewhere in the sky, only to spy something his divine minders were trying to protect him from, and so it came to pass that he threw a tantrum.
His earthly cheer-squad can’t have that.
I think that the dead murderer’s body should be placed in a coffin and the whole lot topped up with pig shit, and then without ceremony buried inside the prison walls. That I reckon would send a message loud and clear to like-minded others, but also disqualify the murderer from entry to Paradise. And if he just did manage to sneak in when the toddler-god was distracted, I don’t think he would have much luck with any of the promised 72 virgins either. They would most likely have their standards.
Very good idea.
Remember Robert Mapplethorpe? The artist guy who did the Piss Christ thing or whatever it was called?
Yeah, right wing Christians were all over TV and the newspapers screeching about how their religion was being insulted.
Yet Robert Mapplethorpe did not die from some right wing Christian decapitating him with a knife.
Just another reason I don’t give a hoot who gets mad at me for being willing to work with the right wing on the trans cult issues. From what I can see, the left wing is much more likely to coddle and handwave away this kind of violence from Allah supporters.
southwest, it was Andres Serrano who did the piss christ. Mapplethorpe is known for his sexy gay photos.
Working with right wingers can be fine until things go off the rails and they start talking about George Soros and pedophile conspiracies.
Oh, got the Piss Christ wrong! :)
Art was never my thing and I should learn to research a little before posting anything that I have only decades old memories of, thank you.
Still, I would rather have an American right winger boring me with talk than another religion’s extremist sawing my head off with a knife.
“” He was the victim of a terrorist Islamist attack,” Macron said. ”
Which is good to hear. I wonder whether any senior English-speaking politician would have said the same, as opposed to the false and evasive “it’s nothing to do with Islam”.
“Nice little civilization you’ve got here. Pity if anything were to happen to it.”