Archives

With Muslims like these, who needs infidels?

Posted in Irshaddering Thoughts on Dec 01, 2007

Editorial cartoon in November 30 Los Angeles Times

Judges in Sudan have sentenced a British school teacher to 15 days in prison. She narrowly escaped a harsher sentence of 40 lashes. Why? For accepting a democratic vote in her class to name their teddy bear “Mohammad.”

Yesterday, hundreds of protestors gathered outside the presidential palace to demand more a brutal punishment, even execution. You can bet that was orchestrated by the government itself, which hopes to look “moderate” when compared its subjects —the ones who haven’t been slaughtered by Sudan’s on-going genocide, that is.

To appreciate the infidel-icious irony of lashing an educator for naming a teddy bear “Mohammad,” we have to shift focus slightly: Ask not how Sudanese officials treated the school teacher. Ask how they treated the Prophet Muhammad.

Put bluntly, Sudan treated Muhammad as untouchable — and thus as God. That, my friends, is blasphemy.

Even in classical Islamic tradition, Muhammad has never been deemed God. Not even close. He was a trustworthy, kind, yet illiterate trader bankrolled by Khadija, his wealthy, self-made entrepreneurial wife.

It’s not the school teacher who deserves to be whipped into shape; it’s the ridiculous clerics who pose as judges. They’re turning the human Prophet into a icon of worship and thereby challenging Allah’s ultimate authority. The infidels are these Muslims.

But let’s not flog their brains out. They can’t afford to lose what little they’ve got up there. Instead, knock some bear-like stuffing into their heads. There’s plenty of room to work with.