Muslims are currently pushing for new law in European countries that will make insulting Islam (or Muslims) punishable by law. Of course, some of our Christian politicians like the idea of making insulting (any) religion a crime because it will make their own warped world-view (AKA Christianity) even more untouchable then it already is. Of course what they fail to see is that as soon as Islam gains the ability to be criticized no longer, it will become harder (if not impossible) to stop, kill all public debate about Islam (or religion), and it will open the doorway to even more ridiculous demands from Muslims. And they can get away with it, because they’ll make these demands based on their faith and you can’t be critical of that. You won’t even be allowed to debate it. Yes, they really thought this through, those Muslims. Nice Catch 22 in the making, guys.

Anyway, the lead loudmouth in the race for criminalizing critique on 7th century backwater desert dogmatism is Zakaria Al-Sheikh from Jordan. Yes, he’s from Jordan and he wants to tell us in Europe what laws we should make. Ain’t that a hoot? On a side-note, this man is the leading figure in an undertaking to get Geert Wilders in front of an (international) judge for making Fitna and thus because of insulting the prophet Mohammed, Islam and Muslims. Let’s be honest guys; it doesn’t take a who lot to insult any of these three. Any critical note is sufficient to make a few hundred Pakistanis go out into the street, burning flags and holding up signs. So it’s clear Muslims don’t want some guy with silly hair making a shitty movie that tells people Islam sucks. And Islam does suck. There, I quickly said it before posting something like that on the Internet will allow the police to come and arrest me in the middle of the night. Won’t be long before that is a reality if Al-Sheikh gets his way.

He was interviewed by Dutch journalist Pieter van der Akker, and here’s a translation. I’m running through this Bing McGhandi style.

Isn’t it unjust to hold a country responsible for the actions of a politician or a cartoonist??

“Wilders and Westergaard justify their attacks on Islam by pointing out their right to Freedom of Speech. That is why we need to take the necessary precautions in those countries to protect Muslims from these sort of attacks on their character and dignity. European countries have legislation that make it punishable by law to deny the Holocaust. If denying the Holocaust is a crime, why isn’t insulting Islam also a crime?”

Because, dipshit, denying the Holocaust has nothing to do with the Jewish religion, but the Jews as a ethnic group. Hitler never asked a single Jew if they believed in God, being in the ethnic group was enough to be put onto a train towards almost certain death. These laws exist to make it possible to discourage and/or prosecute Hitler-fans and other right wing scum who feel the need to point out that Hitler had plenty of nice ideas in his day. It is also to prevent people from trying to rewrite history. You know, like the Turks are trying to do with the Armenian Holocaust (which you probably deny, you cheeky little devil you). Also, as I stated above the quote, it does not take a lot to insult Islam. Nowadays Islam is pretty much in a state of constant insult. By your standard, this blog is a crime and I should be put in jail… for having an opinion. Then again, in most countries where Islam is King and they don’t even know how to spell ’secular state’, and having an opinion that is not the same as the State thinks you should have, is enough to make you disappear into thin air forever, along with most of your loved ones. Human rights are for pussies and fags.

But it is not Dutch and Danish companies who are critical of Islam. Isn’t a boycott a bit of out of proportion?

“We know they are not the ones attacking Islam, that is clear. But you do know that even the United Nations imposes sanctions on countries where a dictator or tiranant is in power. Do you also call that out of proportion?”

No, we do not. But I do call this argument out of proportion. Or simply asinine. You are comparing Wilders or Westergaard to Saddam or Kim Jong Il. You are comparing present day Denmark and the Netherlands to Nazi Germany or North Korea. Need I explain how fucking stupid and flawed that argument is? Simply admit you are a bigoted asshole who (with his many fundy Islamic buddies) is trying to pressure Europe into more appeasement then we are already guilty of.

What are you trying to achieve with this boycott?

“We want to signal the European countries who are insulting Islam and other religions. We have received many messages from people from the Netherlands and Denmark who say they now understand why Muslims are so offended when their prophet or their faith is insulted. This campaign has taught them what is really important to Muslims. The ultimate goal of this boycott is that demonizing the followers of Islam will become punishable by law.”

First of all; how many messages? I can imagine at least some, because even before Fitna was released, our politically correct citizens - I call them appeasing dhimmi brown-noses myself - where stumbling over each other to apologize to Muslims for a film no one had ever seen at that time. It seems clear by the words of Al-Sheikh, Muslims do care a great deal about being insulted. But I already knew that. It is their biggest concern these days. Of course, they could not care less about, oh… human rights, equality for women, equal rights for homosexuals, bigotry, antisemitism, freedom of religion, a secular state, the separation of powers, free elections and other principles we value dearly in the more civilized parts of the world. Just to name a few little things.

Do you think the trade boycott will spread to other countries in the Gulf region?

“There is great interest for our campaign in the entire Muslim world. I’ve been told that we have motivated other groups and organizations in other countries to follow our example. There is a good chance they will launch their own campaigns.”

Hearsay. What groups? What organizations? What countries? A statement typically made to either scare those targeted by it, or to try to convince others they need to start a campaign like this so not to look silly in the eyes of the numerous others who have started a campaign like this. Or better yet; both.

Let me make something very clear about Islam. The basic goal of Islam - as instructed to them by their prophet in their sacred texts - is to conquer the entire world and make the entire world Islamic. Muslims are ordered to kill all non-Muslims. Sure, some of the more moderate Muslims are either not in a hurry, unaware of this duty or are like a some Christians; part of a religion because it is part of their culture, not because they actually believe in a deity. But the hardcore boys - you know, the ones with the big mouths - are dead serious. Serious enough to blow up people, boycott, protest, conquer and pressure anyone anywhere.

If you honestly believe that Islam is a religion of peace, you obviously know nothing about Islam or its history. And before you keep repeating to others the lie that “Islam is a religion of peace”, you need to look at the news coverage on Islamic countries the past few years, read about the history of Islam, the history of the countries in the Gulf region, read the Quran, read the Hadith and then make the same claim in all honesty. I’m willing to bet you can’t.

Putting religion above Freedom of Speech will completely kill this basic human right. We will no longer be able to be critical about anything remotely religious. Once Freedom of Speech goes, Western civilization as we know and enjoy it will go as well. Once a law like this has been passed, it will be virtually impossible to get rid of it. And you know Muslims will exploit it more effectively than any Christian ever could. The fundies want Europe, and our appeasers are getting ready to hand the entire continent over on a silver platter.

As long as religion has the special privileges it now has, this sort of bullshit from both Muslims and Christians will continue. Religion needs to be bumped from this socket to prevent any religion to get power. If you wish to see what a society with religion at the helm is like, simply look at Europe during the Dark Ages (which were called that for a bloody good reason) or present day countries where sharia law is in place. Would you like to live in a place like that? I don’t.

Yes, it’s European Parliament time again. And if you say ‘European Parliament’, you also say ‘fraud’. Indeed, a while ago, they promised to stop treating their ‘job’ as a new way to cash in easily, but they really haven’t. They are still doing it, and still using their old tricks. Tricks exposed by the media years ago. But who could resist putting your signature onto a piece of paper, not doing any actual work and getting 14,727 euro for doing it.

A filmcrew of television station RTL Germany filmed MEP’s signing in for a day of parlaiment work on an early friday morning, and then gallopping off into the weekend. Most of them come to sign in with suitcase in hand. As I’ve stated on this blog before, the European Parliament is trying to stuff a European Constitution (AKA the Treaty of Lisbon) down everyone’s throat, which is very undemocratic indeed, but Freedom of Press is also something they are not fond off, when it is the press that is exposing MEP’s committing fraud. The filmcrew - who are allowed to film in the hallways of the parlaiment - is kicked out. That’s Freedom of Press European Union style.

The new EU motto should be: “Europe. We have no idea what democracy really is anymore.”

Yes, I know. I’m a Pat Condell fan. Sue me.
Or watch the lastest vid of the most famous atheist on YouTube.
Whatever you prefer…

When I read the news this morning, this came to mind:

An update on the comedian health sweepstakes. I currently lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks 2 to 1. But Richard still leads me 1 to nothing in burning yourself up. See, it happened like this. First Richard had a heart attack. Then I had a heart attack. Then Richard burned himself up. And I said, ‘Fuck that. I’m having another heart attack!’

One of the funniest men with a sharp tongue in America has stopped smoking. It sucks.

… and he wrote a blog about his trip.

Read it and wheep. Hard.

The Dutch Protestant Church is on a mission; a mission for God of course. It seems that more and more people are leaving the church behind them, so they are going to try and lure non-believers (a stupid piece of terminology I’m going to rant about some time in the future on this blog) into their houses of worship of the Invisible Daddy In The Sky (AKA God). They will do this through local missionary work.

Some statistics; the Protestant Church has roughly two million members spread out over 1.800 church communities. Half of these people don’t even go to church at least once a month. Therefore, action is needed, so the Church states.

Indeed, action is needed. You ignorant ass-hats need to look at the facts and realize there is a damn good reason people are less and less visiting church. They either choose to practice their religion in private (good for them, seeing religion depart from public life is fine by me) or have become atheists or agnostics (or perhaps a religion different from . So don’t try to revive a dying horse, but let it die a slow death. Join us over here on the rational and reasonable side of life in the twenty-first century. Peace.

Last Monday, Croatia played against Poland in the European (Football / Soccer) Cup and Croatian player Ivan Klasnic scored the decisive goal against Poland. He immediately thanked God for the goal. This is total religious stupidity.

Why I’m a bit worked up over this, is because humans slap down theirs and others achievements by attributing them to divine intervention or influence. I’ve seen kids working really hard to win a sporting event and in stead of making them feel proud about their achievement, God gets dragged into the picture and gets all or some of the credit, simultaneously indoctrinating the kids with the idea that any achievement they have in life is not something they fought and struggled for, but they had solely because God (obviously) had a hand in the whole thing. Their achievement is stolen from them.

Ivan Klasnic is what you get after feeding kids this bullshit for years on end; the man trained and worked for years to become a professional football player, even more to be good enough to get into the team send to represent his country at the European Cup and at the moment all this hard work is paid off and he shines in the face of millions of viewers, he claims he thanks God for his achievement.

This form of religious behavior is a tumorous growth on human achievements and advancement, and we really can do without it. Give your kids credit for what they accomplish and leave God out of it. It’s fucking stupid.

And if I’m wrong and God is real, he’s interfering with the championship and Croatia needs to be disqualified for cheating.

Today, the people of Ireland - while using their democratic rights - said NO to the treaty of Lisbon, which is nothing but an undemocratic peace of crap designed to force a European Constitutian down the throat of hard-working Europeans who don’t want to become part of a undemocratic super-state.

Thank you Ireland, for telling the shitheads in the European Union that we value our democratic rights a hell of a lot more then the ‘European Dream’ of our politicians.

This week saw the release of Big Buck Bunny, a short film created using open source software, most important of which is Blender. Two years ago, the short film “Elephants Dream” was the first film that was created to feature the power of this open source 3D package. Viewable on YouTube & Vimeo, downloadable from it’s website and if you desire, it can be bought on DVD with lots and lots of extra features.

Enjoy!

“My name is Muhammed and no one dares to print me.”

Countdown for the first protest in Pakistan and the boycot of Norwegian products in the Islamic countries begins…