To Burn or Not To Burn

And the saga continues…

I received an email from David commenting on my post. Fair play means I post it as is (apologies in advance for not censoring it!):

I will not jump into this debate as it will take forever and will not lead to
anything. But it is certainly a JUNKyard. But you are welcome to write even
more shit about me, my people, country, region and
religion.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I
shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. //Voltaire

When I first read the reply, I thought “Cool, I always knew I had a talent, and approving the name of my blog is just another proof”, then I thought “LOL, so facts are considered crap nowadays?” I didn’t respond to David as I was busy, and anyway I saw the email 3 days after he sent it. Cold stuff by then.

Then he sent me another email yesterday:

My local friend's comments on the issue..

http://rosetta2006.blogspot.com/2006/01/denmark-vs-islamic-world_113865837566766360.html

http://rosetta2006.blogspot.com/2006/02/those-blasted-cartoons.html

I opened the first link but didn’t read it, as I was extremely busy. I did reply though, after all it’s the least I could do:

Cool, I'll read it when I have time later on today...though I thought you
wouldn't discuss this any further with me :) Or did someone finally whisper to
you that I was joking about the burning and you no longer think I'll drowse you
with gas and light you up? Or is this the Voltaire "I shall defend, to the
death, your right to say it" :))

Here's what Frisk (British) has to
say about the matter (Oh and did you know that that same Danish newspaper
refused to publish cartoons of Jesus {not that I am with that} a couple of years
ago because they worried it will hurt the feelings of many readers? I'd say this
is an evidence of the papers' double standards, wouldn't you?)

Robert Fisk: Don't be fooled, this isn't an issue of Islam versus secularism
(If you can’t access the link, or you want the full article,
please email me and I will email it to you)

Which David replied back saying in very short words:

Crap article. I will not discuss.

Oh well! But don’t come back to me with more Articles, because I don’t want to seem obsessed with this issue more than I am already accused of!


Then came the comments! WOW!! I never had so many comments on a post before! And NOT all from Hippo or Asif!!

Abbas -1

Take it easy on David!! He's the coolest

Man I have to give David his "Family Man" dvd’s back cause I think he needs to laugh a bit and remember that other people can joke too! And I have never said anything against David, after all I do work with him and he is one of the closest colleagues to me. :) But since you are his friend, think of this scenario: You joke with D, he goes to another friend and talks about you negatively instead of facing you and telling you either he doesn’t get your humor or doesn’t appreciate it. How would you feel? I don’t think you would laugh it off as I did.


Hippo – 1

That was my free thought!!

Girl… I love you! You are so animated and I love it when you get pi$$ed about these issues. Makes me want to say “Go Girl!”!


Abbas – 2

Confused people, arent the both of you?

The power of words!
See Abbas why I’m with freedom of speech with conditions? Look how upset you became from Hippo’s comment. You started judging people you don’t know, and making assumptions about their intentions and BELIEVING these assumptions! I won’t stereotype you with any group, but is this the way YOU listen, communicate and deal in your life? What a Shame.
Haven’t you read somewhere, seeing is believing? They don’t even take hearsay in courts as evidence. If you can’t believe that I was joking, that’s ok. But then better watch your back; I heard fire spreads over close objects! Don’t take my word for it of course, I haven’t seen it. Yet!

you are under 22 years of age, and therefore immature anyway.

When did Age was proportional to Maturity? And if you wanted to take the age factor, you might want to consider the gender factor too. Don’t they say that women mature faster than men? So I’d say Hippo, who is still in her teens, is as mature as a 25 old man, if we are lucky! That should be fair enough!


Hippo – 2

Did I say I love you? Deep stuff girl. And the sarcasm, wow, we definitely have so many things in common!! Not many people get it, but then not all have your high IQ, or mine of course. I think if they put us two in one team, add a couple of us more, then we can BURN the world! Scary eh? We Are the new mass destruction weapon! Yippy!


Anonymous

If muslims like yourself worked on chilling out

CAPITALS ARE NOT NECESSARY shouting! I know they are used sometimes as shouting in the online world, but it could be used to emphasize words. So don't take things at face value. If you think she is screaming there, you should see her when she really scream! She was EMPHASIZING!
I agree Hippo is hyper, but if we Muslims did not get upset and hyper about our own Prophet, who would? Not the “Muslim” chilling at the bar of course! Nor that “Muslim” debating the limits of freedom of expression while walloping yet another glass of alcohol? Westerners can't grasp the importance of the Prophet to the Muslims, nor can you it seems, and so you wouldn't understand why any of us (Muslims) get so "hyper". Oh and just in case you are wondering, It's definitely not because of any withdrawal effect from not consuming any Danish products!

Think of it this way: if someone killed your mother (and just in case, you turn to be a psychopath who loathed his/her mother) or someone VERY dear to you, would you CHILL and DEBATE capital punishment? Or would you GO HYPER about it?
But then, maybe no one is dear enough to you and you are already against capital punishment and this scenario is pointless to you!
Oh well!


Shouldn't you have gotten married at 14 or something?

Yeah… that’s when Muslim girls get married and that is also when Westerner girls get pregnant, without marriage, and give birth to the bastards roaming the streets. Urgh! What an idiotic thing to say to Hippo. Haven’t you read somewhere, don’t throw stones at others when your house is made from glass!


Tarik & 7sain

Guys… sa7 lisankom!





And… off I go… to do my bit at work!

Remember… Anyone But Mohammad Peace Be Upon Him!