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Mocking Christianity

Mocking Christianity v. Mocking Islam

Whitewashing of Islam

Mocking Islamism

The "Clareification" controversy

The limits of what I will do

The Islamic street

The threat of violence

The Muhammed cartoons

The "roundabout dog" cartoons

Islam annoys the West


Criticising and satirising religions

In the politically-correct world, the doctrines of Christianity can be freely criticised and ridiculed - which is fantastic, and a hard-won freedom that cost the lives of many atheist and freethinking martyrs.

But you can't do the same to Islam. Leftists will call you a "racist" if you try to criticise any religion other than Christianity.


 

The free (Creative Commons) online Flash game "Faith Fighter" by Molleindustria.
Gods and prophets engage in hand-to-hand combat, including Jehovah, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammed and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Play it here and here. Download it here and here.
This game shows the problems for reactionary Islam in the modern globalised world.




UK and Irish laws against criticising religion

Both the UK and Ireland have introduced terrifying new laws recently, which, depending on how they are prosecuted, may outlaw criticism of religion. These laws are an offense against the concept of a free society.


Mocking Christianity

Artists rarely do anything genuinely brave and daring. Insulting Christianity, Judaism, America, Britain, Israel, capitalism, zionism and neo-conservatism is safe, risk-free, and likely to win praise from your peers and money from grant bodies. If artists were genuinely brave and daring, they would insult and criticise people for whom there is some element of risk attached - for example, Islam, Scientology, the Nation of Islam, cults, organised criminals, western terrorists, living dictators, and third-world revolutionaries such as the Palestinians.

Mocking Christianity is not daring. Mocking Islam is.



South Park




Mocking Christianity v. Mocking Islam

Christianity and Islam are treated differently.


Whitewashing of Islam

Far from mocking Islam. many left-leaning non-Muslims go out of their way to praise it and whitewash it.



Karen Armstrong thinks we should admire Abraham, a religious maniac prepared to slaughter his own child because of the voices in his head.




Mocking Islamism

Many people do have the courage to mock Islamist terror, even if few have the courage to mock Islam itself.




"Have I Got News for You", BBC TV, June 2011, has a funny joke about Islam and its relationship with terror.
Comedian Sharon Horgan said: "The Independent described the Dostoevsky metro station ... as the Mecca for suicides. Not to be confused with the Mecca for suicide bombers - which is Mecca."
Of course (of course!) she received threats from Muslims for joking that their religion is not peaceful. Yes, death threats will prove Islam is peaceful!
She ended up issuing a grovelling apology: "I am anti any prejudice of any kind. And particularly the generally lazy media portrayal of Muslims or any blanket negativity towards Islam. ... Any of the comments on here, which are suggesting I am racist or in any way anti-Muslim are a load of nonsense. ... Really hope that people understand this and stop threatening me."
By the way, are we allowed mention in passing that Islamic suicide bombers actually bombed Moscow metro stations (though not Dostoevsky station) in Feb 2004 and Aug 2004 and Mar 2010?
Copy here.




Greece - where attacking Christianity is daring



  
Das Leben des Jesus (The Life of Jesus) (2002).
From official site.




Russia - where attacking Christianity is daring




The images that are illegal in Russia.




The "Clareification" controversy, Cambridge, Feb 2007



The cover of the banned issue of "Clareification".





Some of the banned issue.
Intelligent, witty satire, poking fun at the touchy, aggressive, violent, sanctimonious, hypocritical Islamic street, which bombs churches, executes nuns, and cuts the head and limbs off priests in protest at suggestions that Islam is violent.
Such satire is badly needed in these times of dour, humourless religious fanatics.
If this material is banned at Cambridge, then Cambridge is no longer a free university.
If this material is banned in Britain, then Britain is no longer a free country.





The Muhammed cartoons




The "roundabout dog" Muhammed cartoons




The limits of what I will do

The Mohammed Image Archive displays some of the vast number of violent, uneducated, illiterate death threats it has received. Other sites that criticise the Koran and Muhammed, or show images of Muhammed, have received large numbers of semi-literate death threats from violent Muslims.

This explains, I hope, why my blog has some barriers, such as:

  1. No comments facility.
  2. No email.
  3. I do not show images of Muhammed (though I admire those who do).
  4. I do not directly criticise the Koran or Muhammed. I may link to people who do, but I never do myself.

Simply put, I want the freedom to say what I think, but I do not want to engage with violent people. I do not want to attract the attention of the violent, emotional, illiterate savages like the ones in the comments above. The violent threats above confirm for me the wisdom of the choices I have made.




Sacha Baron Cohen



Sacha Baron Cohen is braver than perhaps any other artist, actor or comedian in the world.





"The college is now arranging a meeting for next term to discuss the problem of maintaining free speech while avoiding offence."
- Clare College, Cambridge, 16 Apr 2007, after disciplining a student for criticising Islam, show they have no idea what "free speech" actually means.



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