Je Suis Skeeter
So okay, the terrorists are killing cartoonists and satirists. Make sport of them at your own risk, Monsieur! There’s definitely something lacking in a jihadist — a funny bone maybe?
Don’t ask me why, but you take folks real serious about their religion — any religion — and you poke a bit of fun at their beliefs, good chance you’ll need Kevlar clothing. Mix in some politics — and no, let’s not call that a religion yet — and you got all the makings for a full blown riot.
Now you might not believe this, but old Skeeter here pulls his punches. Religious idealogues and right wing Tea Partiers, I try to avoid poking my elbow in their eye socket. Too easy a target, maybe. Or maybe freedom of speech should have some self –imposed limits. Granted, I think those limits shouldn’t be imposed by the government — and definitely not by pissed off terrorists and North Korean chubby dictators. Bad taste is offensive but doesn’t meet the capital punishment test. Not only that, but the counter-reaction is going to be grim, nasty and violently incommensurate with the perceived grievance. You think a Fatwah to kill Salman Rushdie is ill advised, wait til the Europeans’ favorite hairstyle is Skinhead and the new Jew is Moslem. The joking’s going to stop real quick.
So forgive me if I skip the cartoon of you-know-who or the name-that-cannot-be-spoken or the politician-who-needs-horsewhipping-with-his-own-tongue. Short of a funny bone transplant, what’s the point? Their world is set in granite, nothing humorous is going to penetrate their idealistically pure forcefield. I’d poke fun at us satirists, but hey, we’re a little busy right now screaming First Amendment! First Amendment! in our building that’s not quite on fire. There’s no one left here except us trampled few….
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I read a comment recently by the father of sociobiology E O Wilson, who said insulting a person’s creation myth is almost the same as directly attacking the person. They will defend themselves accordingly.
Now at the risk of seeming contradictory, allow me to continue.
The father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is Abraham. The same Abraham who married his half sister, was uncle to Lot who as you may recall drank a little too much wine with his own daughters, and then…
When the foundation of your narrative starts with the term “inbred,” it generally doesn’t bode well for the characters later on in the story. That would be us.
Jeez, now we got not only the jihadists wanting blood, but the biblicists too? You’re going to need a bunker in the pineapple fields before long. Next thing you know, you’ll be accusing those first children of Adam and Eve of incest. Gotta start somewhere, I guess. Otherwise we’d have all stayed on the Ark and some of these jackasses we see now in the media every day wouldn’t be able to deny lineage….
Apparently I was mistaken.
As part of my ongoing research concerning who and how various begetting took place in the Old Testament, I discovered one biblical scholar claim God did not specifically forbid familial… familiarities until he laid down the law in Leviticus. So Genesis and Exodus were the real free love eras, the original intersection of Haight & Ashbury when you exited East of Eden, with no pesky cultural or ethical restrictions for Abraham or Lot to obey. Or if I might contend, sisters and daughters were grandfathered in, so to speak.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not reflect the views of the Skeeter Daddle Diaries. Now I believe I will retire into my previously undisclosed pineapple field bunker.
Oh good, now that the bullseye is on Seeter’s back, you settle back in the Sandwich Isles, mai-tai in hand and a warm breeze blowing in, not from the ISIS caliphate, but the blue blue Pacific. Your disclaimer might work if people read further into a site than two or three sentences before their attention wanes. Don’t bother mourning me, just say it was for Freedom to Humiliate the Weak and the Downtrodden. Meanwhile, Haight and Genesis sound real good…