JABbering Stooge

In light of the previous post, if you’re an Israeli Arab, I would highly suggest that you not leave the country anytime soon (assuming that you’re actually allowed to leave the ghettos you’ve been relegated to). Bibi’s just the kind of nutty racist who would borrow ideas from the Stephen Harper administration on the (mis)treatment of ethnic minorities whose only crime is following the wrong religion.

So, a memo with embarrassing revelations about the Israeli government’s reaction to the election of B. Hussein Osama X The Usurper™ authored by Nadav Tamir, the Israeli consul-general in Boston, was leaked to the press last week:

During a visit to Israel, I became more aware that we have a damaging misunderstanding regarding the intentions and policies of the American administration. I must note that even if I am wrong in my assessment of the American administration, the way in which we manage our relations nowadays is causing strategic damage to two very important aspects that make up our special relationship and they are the level of intimacy in coordinating policies, and the support of US public opinion towards Israel.

In many American circles, there is a feeling these days, that while the Obama administration tries to resolve global conflicts, it must deal with the refusal to cooperate by governments in Iran, North Korea, and Israel. Aaron Miller’s words, spoken after the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, clearly show this feeling. He said it was a meeting between Obama yes we can and Netanyahu no you won’t.

There are, of course, players in American and Israeli politics who oppose Obama ideologically and are willing to sacrifice the special relationship between the countries to further their own political agenda, but we cannot let these players damage the bipartisan attitude that rightly characterized the conduct of Israeli governments toward the US.

Naturally, since no good deed goes unpunished, Tamir suddenly found himself recalled to Israel for the thoughtcrime of not being sufficiently supportive of Israel’s Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem. Or as Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman put it:

If someone is not happy and can’t live with government policy, the way is not to criticize and leak but to resign. With all due respect to the consul… it is not his job to express political positions.

Yes, quite. How dare he speak truth to power about how Bibi’s paranoid delusions are threatening Israel’s security?

(h/t, ThinkProgress)

It’s the only thing I can think of that would explain why he would open his latest column thusly:

Scolding Americans for our various sins is proving popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists.

Yes, Mr. Hanson. You’re right. Scolding Americans for our various sins is very popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists.

Gee, what a surprise. According to testimony in a criminal investigation of the massacre of several innocent Iraqi civilians, Blackwater/Xe founder Erik Prince is a regressive Christofascist thug who encourages his subordinates to engage in illegal activities, all in the name of a Final Solution to the Muslim Problem™.

No wonder conservatives love him.

If true, no amount of rebranding is going to expunge this black spot on Blackwater/Xe’s reputation.

Nor should it.

Atheists in the Capitol’s Foxhole

• I’m all for free speech and freedom of religion…just not for atheists. And if any of them dares protest this latest effort at idolatry in the name of intimidating atheists, so help me I’ll personally roundhouse kick each and every one of them!

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“Gay” blog post was just not fair

YOOOOUUUU have meddled with the primal forces of NA-TURE, Ms. Zerbisias, AND I WON’T HAVE IT!

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Spencer Ackerman on John Bolton’s General Ripper-esque obsession with bombing Iran (h/t, Steve Benen):

Yes, the Israeli bombs will only kill the bad Iranians. When patriotic Iranians of the opposition see Israeli F-16s raining death from above on Iranian targets, Bolton actually expects them to think, “Boom shack-a-lacka! Here come our Israeli liberators! Let them bomb whatever they like, since even though Mir Hussein Moussavi supports a nuclear program as part of a consensus opinion, I believe Israeli propaganda that says it has our best interests at heart! That’ll show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! Did you hear that, Aunt Marjam? Aunt Marjam…?”

If there’s one thing that a Bush official should understand, it’s that people under attack from a foreign enemy don’t rush to embrace their more moderate leaders.

But Spencer, we Americans are superior to everyone else because unlike the rest of the heathen scum world, we embraced our moderate leaders after 9/11. Oh wait, we didn’t.

SHE is shrieeeking again. Why? This:

In a recent debate with principals from two religious schools I was accused of being driven by emotions masquerading as reason. But if we hypothesise for a moment that they are right, then surely the same is true of them. And if that’s the case, who should we listen to?

It is precisely to avoid such conflicts that schools should provide a safe haven from all ideologies, with the obvious codicil that children should learn as much about as many of them as possible from an objective point of view.

[…]

And that’s fine. But does this not make it all the more important for schools to be free of religious influence? Children need to be able to meet and get to know their peers on neutral ground. Religions by their nature always run the risk of creating an “us against them” scenario. However tolerant we believe ourselves to be, there is always a reason people consider their own religion superior to all others.

One of the school system’s most important functions is to create a feeling of community, where all are treated on equal terms regardless of race, class or creed. Society’s way of treating children with the respect they deserve is to combat by all available means any sense of an “us against them” divide.

[…]

Nobody should have to form an opinion on matters of such weight before they are ready to size up the arguments. Above all, children should be kept away from anything that bears even the slightest whiff of indoctrination. In fact, freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.

You can hear the SHRIEEEEKING all the way from Ottawa…

Indoctrination for me and not for thee. That’s what it amounts to.

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But Humanists are a special breed of people who think more clearly than the rest of us. Since their opinions are the fruit of reason, not faith, their derision and marginalization of religion is enlightening and liberating, not divisive. If only the poor benighted fundamentalists could overcome their indoctrination and their silly fairytale beliefs, they could see the error of their ways and we could all be as one and they could finally stop fomenting that “us against them” mentality. Religion is a plague on society. Humanism unites people under all one creed — that of reason.

There is no sense of superiority in humanism whatsoever.

My, you can see the sarcasm dripping off of that last sentence.

Naturally, I had to respond.

In case it doesn’t make it past HER new reality-distortion field, the full response is below the fold.

Reuters:

Religious Slurs Used During Assault on Texas Muslim

WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on law enforcement authorities in Texas to investigate an alleged assault on a Muslim in that state as a hate crime.

The alleged victim, a 34-year-old white convert to Islam, reported to CAIR that two former co-workers came to his Gilmer, Texas, home after midnight on Saturday and punched, choked and kicked him without provocation. During the assault, the alleged attackers reportedly used religious slurs such as, “You Muslim piece of sh*t,” “Pray to Allah mother f**ker,” and “You are a traitor … We’re at war with these people.“ At one point during the alleged assault, the victim says he felt the barrel of a gun pressed to his head.

As the attackers left, they allegedly threatened to harm him again if he called the police. He was reportedly told by one assailant, “If I can’t get you, my people will.” The victim has since moved out of his home in response to this threat.

Sundown towns for Muslims. Joy. But that’s not the worst part of this.

The FBI and local police are investigating the incident, but local authorities have not labeled it a hate crime.

More (deliberate?) navel-gazing by the cops. That can’t end well.

And in other news, anti-abortion militancy is apparently on the rise:

I think JJ put it best:

A murderous anti-abortion freak last week, a neo-nazi killer this week — it’s as if every kind of deranged whackjob described in that much-maligned Homeland Security dossier on right-wing extremists are now being trotted out as examples. 52 flavours, try ‘em all.

But no, we’re not allowed to worry about right-wing terrorism.

Stalkin’ Malkin is in high dudgeon over the Great Orange Satan’s remarks on the shooting at the Holocaust Museum in D.C.

Inevitable: The blame game has already begun. Here’s Kos implicating the Tea Party movement.

Right. Like you wouldn’t have been exploiting this incident for all it’s worth had the shooter belonged to the wrong religion. Oh wait…

And while you’re at it, Michelle, it might behoove you to remind your commenters of that non-blame-gaming policy you allegedly subscribe to. They seemed to be even quicker out of the gate than you to blame all of Islam for the sins of one man before they even knew his identity.

Sidebar: And yes, I do find it interesting that the shooter was a Freeper who was also well-received by the stooges at Stormfront. I also find it highly amusing that LibrulFrei Republikkk is busily scrubbing their site of any of von Brunn’s verbal diarrhea only now that his membership has come to light.

But no, we’re not allowed to worry about a pattern of right-wing terrorism, are we?

WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS: Did I mention yet that Mr. von Brunn was a Birth Certificate Truther™?