You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
The anger being fanned across the Middle East like a grease fire.
Gunfire, burning cars, protests, violence, killings.
It’s ugly. Very very ugly.
The demonstrations of hate have boiled over like spaghetti on a burner set to high. Muslims are pissed. They are reportedly incited by an insipid video that depicts the prophet Mohammad unfavorably, even as a child molester.
The film, if it can be called that, is ridiculous. It has less credibility than a Bazooka Joe comic strip on a tiny piece of bubble gum.
The video is a rancid head of lettuce festering in a steaming hot dumpster. It stinks so bad rats won’t lift their little rat legs to urinate on it.
Why bother? Send it to the dump. It’s garbage.
And this is why the world is on fire?
A brave reporter, very Anglo Saxon looking, walked the street in Beirut, Lebanon amidst an angry crowd of protesters. Brave? you bet. That’s like a pork chop walking through Mufasa’s pride of lions.
You could almost see the crowd licking it’s collective lips.
“Its the biggest demonstration yet,” he said, citizens eyeballing him with contempt and curiosity.
The rally was organized by Hezbollah, he says.
If you don’t know Hezbollah? Imagine a hand grenade wearing a turban, then pull the pin.
The leader of Hezbollah took the podium and called this obscure film the worst insult to Islam ever.
EVER?
Come on Hezbollah? Really? A video so obscure so blatantly ridiculous that this is the focus of your flash point.
I’m so sick of watching you burn our flag and pump your fists in defiance. You chant death to America, but you don’t know anything about America. You’ve never been here, never felt our wonder, our splendor, our grandeur, our complex dedication to freedom.
I will always defend your right to speak your beliefs, but at what cost?
Hezbollah’s nasty little pit bull of venom issued a warning to the USA.
“There will be very serious repercussions against America around the world,” he said, “unless the USA does something about the film.”
Like what? It’s all ready less important than gum on the bottom of your shoe.
This film is a farce. It’s a scare crow in a field, scaring off buzzards.
The anger I’m seeing around the globe goes well beyond the film.
This vituperative cleansing goes back to the very differences between America and the rest of the Middle East.
It’s how we live, it’s how we think, it’s how we worship, it’s how we see the world.
We don’t like what we see and hear emanating from your cities, but you don’t see us burning your flag. It’s not worth our time.
If we are going to burn your flag, we’re going to do it from the belly of an f-15 E strike Eagle.
For you, there is and always has been an under current of death to America.
For us, you supply most of our oil and the price per barrel is really starting to affect how we tail gate, recreate, and procreate.
If you are not careful, while you’re busy burning our flag, we might just sneak up on you and take your oil wells.
You think you hate us now? Just wait.
“Do you believe in freedom of speech,” the reporter asked an English speaking protester.
“yeah,” she said emphatically. “but not when it comes to religion.”
OK, whatever. Selective freedom. That’s contrary.
There were protests in 7 other countries today.
In Egypt, the riots were subsiding, but there were still smoldering vehicles to remind us all that the quiet is only temporary.
In Libya, all was calm, except the haunting imagery of 4 dead Americans.
It’s hard to believe that an entire region of the world is so blindly prepared to engage in violence, in rage, in gross misconceptions of who we are as a people, as a nation.
It’s not about a film. That might have been a spark, but the entire movement is a tank of rocket fuel ready to explode.
So much anger. So much hate. They don’t need provocation, just a spark.
A film a cartoon, a single Koran being burned. It doesn’t matter.
You hate us. We get it. Don’t gift wrap it in some nonsensical excuse.
You want a holy war. Better be careful. You keep this up and you might just get what you asked for.
Last time I checked, we don’t fight our war with rocks.
And that is crazy.™