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July 10, 2005

Bombs in London

Every year in the United States of America, 5000 people die of food poisoning. There is a lot of buzz going around that about 50 people died in London from a dose of Al Qaeda madness. I'm going to keep washing my chicken and not being chicken of terrorists.

As you've no doubt heard before, the terrorist wants the ugliness of the act to outweigh the actual seriousness of the act. In order to be successful, the terrorist must outrage and therefore twist the political system. Sure the AQ thugs want to pump up the islamofascist recruiting machine too, but really. Nobody is afraid of the irregulars. We smashed the Mahdi Army, we'll smash any new one they can come up with. In fact, I think a lot of us in the blogosphere ought to register our disgust and lack of fear of all these AQ fanatics and note their pinpricks on our civilization with little more than disdain.

Here's my open letter to whichever of you AQ pricks can read English. We will talk among ourselves when Yet Another Wahabist Nutcase murders an innocent civilian, but... YAWN, whatever. We want all you AQ punks to know that you are less dangerous to our society than unwashed chicken. We wipe our feet on your manifestoes. We listen to talk radio discussing your bombings while we drive to work in the morning in our big fat expensive cars with automatic transmissions. We're drinking Starbucks coffee. We fall asleep to the 11 oclock news on our big plasma televisions while the newscasters tell us about your 'insurgent' attacks. We make movies about aliens from space who do more damage in 2 hours than your whole movement makes in 3 years. And we're belching on the popcorn and CocaCola.

You sniveling wretches. Do you really think you scare us? Puhlease. Know this, we've buried legions of enemies 10 times as frightful as you and made their surviving children our best friends and trading partners. The only Islam that will survive will be the true Islam - the Islam at peace with the free world. All righteous muslims disclaim your idiotic and suicidal heresy. You want to know something else? We don't know any of your names and we don't care. We leave your body bits in the gutters and hose down our streets of your filth. YAWN. Whatever.

I am no longer angry. I am no longer outraged. I know you for what you are, another foolish criminal gang among the world's history of crooks and crazies. You are not feared. You are a simple pest, and you will be terminated.

Posted by mbowen at July 10, 2005 10:26 PM

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Thanks you for summing it up so well. I added a little bit of my own thought at my blog.
http://tswe.blogspot.com/2005/07/yawn-yet-another-wahabist-nutcase.html

"The Only Difference for me is I ride the NYC subway each morning going to work. I think Booker Rising summed it up best the real victims of the bombing are the poor in Africa who's relief was pushed off the front page for this stupidity. But it pisses me off when I hear about spending more money on cops when more lives could be saved with testing beef and chicken and with more flu vaccine. 36,000 a year is the average death toll in US due to flu. In the future AQ will be remembered as nothing more than piss poor performance artists."

Posted by: Scott at July 11, 2005 07:29 AM

Wow. Way to put that into perspective. Still there will always be the ones who say that next time Al Queda, or whoever, will do something seriously damaging. We have to tread the line of careful planning and safe behavior with out falling off into fear based reactions.

Posted by: Matt at July 11, 2005 08:08 AM

>Every year in the United States of America, 5000 people die of food poisoning

Y'know, I was thinking something like this on 7/7.

The weekend before some 3 billion people watched Live8 where musicians pointed out that every day something like 38,000 (28,000?) people die every day due to preventable disease (malaria, AIDS, waterborne illnesses).

And at coffee break today, the discussion was about two pilots who died yesterday at the Moose Jaw, SK air show.

Posted by: bartkid at July 11, 2005 10:38 PM

if the whole world adopted these standards, no one should ever be concerned about anything. My child dies, well other children dies. Black people were enslaved, well millions of people who were not black were also enslaved, so what's the big deal. I'm discriminated against, so what, what about the genocide going on in Africa. It's nice to be detached and satiric, but no one can live like that.
Also, Cobb, there is no real Islam except as people create it and believe it. To the extent that most muslims support the extermination of infidels and/or forced conversion that is the real islam. Westerners find it very hard to face the fact that the world is not liberals. Only the west is liberal. It does not exist elsewhere. To want to force others to adopt your ways, to conquer them is the normal sentiment of humankind. Only the west has recently managed to break out of that pattern

Posted by: Anita at July 12, 2005 06:47 AM