Ockham’s Razor – Since October 2001 – by Scott Kirwin
Archive for February 2006
Real Caption:
A Muslim cleric protester stands in front of the Danish embassy in Beirut after it was set on fire.
Picture: Haitham Mussawi/AFP/Getty Images
Alternative Captions:
Okay. Now which one of you jihadis brought the S’mores?
Hot Dogs? Abdul do you know what they put in those things?
The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire! We don’t need a bucket let the motherf**ker burn! Come on everyone, sing it with me!
Any more?
Aziz has an astute observation, one which has kept me from getting fired up about this issue:
You can print, say, or draw whatever you want. Just don’t be surprised when – and let’s frankly admit this – the people you are deliberately trying to provoke conclude that you’re a complete jafi. A jafi, whose soaring rhetoric about freedom and respect for Islam and the sacredness of the cause to bring liberty to the middle east as a grand antidote for tyranny and oppression, just came off looking a lot less sincere. A lot less.
There is a lot to question about Islam. There is a lot that Islam must explain – and will have to explain if anyone acts upon the rhetoric flowing from Muslim quarters. But when your goal is to offend, and you succeed, you must accept the consequences.
I have offended with my writing – most of the time unintentionally – and I have apologized sometimes. There are other times when I have said things that I believe and will not apologize for. I have suffered the consequences as a result.
I have also practiced restraint: there are offensive things that I could have written in the heat of the moment but refrained from doing so. Is this self-censorship? I use my conscience as my guide, and have come to trust it.
My conscience is telling me that this isn’t my fight. However, I believe this will change if the protests and threats turn violent towards Europeans, Americans, or even other Muslims.
Uuuuummmm! That’s double-jihad on you, Chad!
Technorati #46,845 with 123 links from 46 sites.
Technorati claims there are 26,900,000 blogs. If we divide that by a 100, each percent of the blogosphere represents 269,000 blogs. Therefore any blog from #1 to #269,001 could be considered in the top 1% of blogs, right?
Woohoo?
America’s Health Care “System”
Quit Smoking – Here’s How
Hamas Wins Palestinian Elections
Google Agrees To Censor In China
How to Handle Iran
A Democrat Mom Could Vote For
Boondocks
Is This What The Democratic Party Stands For?
Is Spielberg a Self-Hating Jew?
Finger Lickin’ Good PC
Is Hyperspace Travel Possible?
Ariel Sharon
Link. Yes, yes… I gladly accept responsibility.
Now if I had only shorted the stock on Monday like I had considered doing… 
