When I was a kid my favorite album was Bill Cosby’s Revenge. Because of the title track I always remembered July 12 as Cosby’s birthday. He was the first standup comic I knew and has made me laugh all my life and my sons all of theirs, so to him I wish a Happy Birthday and many more.
Today however I remember July 12th for a different reason. It is a day of outrage for me because one year ago today, July 12, a Fatwa was placed on cartoonist Molly Norris who once wrote for the Seattle Times.
Norris had drawn a cartoon in support of South Park after an episode featuring Mohammad was censored, she had
This is not the cartoon that Molly Drew but it's my favorite on the subject
Two months later Molly Norris went into hiding under an assumed name for fear of her life. She remains in hiding, somewhere in the US, to this day.
Run that through your head. In 2010 A US citizen was forced to change her name and give us her life for exercising her first Amendment rights in America. It is the most obscene offense against the 1st Amendment I’ve ever seen.
Did the US congress pass a resolution of outrage? Did Newspapers around the nation rally to her side? Did the talking heads of the MSM express outrage? Were there marches in the streets with people carrying banners to proclaim that they would not stand for the bedrock right, the freedom of speech, to be abrogated?
Nope.
My feeling about the story is the same as it was a year ago and my battle cry remains unchanged:
I defy you murderous Islamic Bastards and I stand with Molly Norris!
I call on bloggers today to put up a post proclaiming they remember Molly Norris.
I call on talk radio and Television hosts to mention this anniversary and express their outrage
I call upon our representatives to pass a resolution of outrage over this Fatwa and in support of Molly Norris.
Every day this stands the first Amendment is desecrated and our rights are become simply words on an old piece of paper. If we don’t fight this and continue to fight it, then not only will we forfeit the rights our forefathers died to bequeath us, but we will have proved ourselves unworthy of those rights.
Cross posted at DaTechGuy’s blog
Update: Also cross posted at The Minority Report.
- Excited
- Angry
- Not as Angry
- Bored
- Indifferent
- Sad
Can I have a Fatwa, please?
Unlike urban Liberals, I’m not going anywhere.
Be it noted, I can be gotten, as can anyone. But I’m out in the sticks, on a back road. I have neighbors who are as paranoid as all get out, and I have a moderately large shutzhund type dog, who alerts on any traffic within a block, every time.
I also have three ways in and out of here to go to work, although nobody else could find two of them.
Should I feel the need, I’ll take the front back way out of here to work, or the back back way, which could lead to all sorts of interesting permutations of my route. I’ve been known to do that just to kill a quarter-hour in the morning before I get to work.
Beyond that? Come find out, you Goat Roping rugheads. My preferred caliber for rugheads starts with a .4 for pistols, and a .3 for rifles. I will not be intimidated, and if you try hard enough, I may come looking for you first, dont’cha know? If we get to that point, I’m not above it.
I’m down with saving the liberals from the rugheads. Liberals have their moments, but Islamazoids have no moments. Given a choice, I’ll keep the liberals. They are easier to lead to reason.
Um, I know what was intended, here, but the terms “raghead” and “rughead” are most often used not to mean “Islamic fundies who want to kill Americans and Israelis,” but rather “Arabs.” It’s actually a slur, and I’d really prefer we stick to clearer terms, like “extremists,” or “jihadis,” or “Islamofascists,” or something like that.
Please keep in mind that my half-sister is of Syrian descent, so I have no tolerance for anti-Arab sentiments. (I mean, most of the governments in that part of the world are repressive, and there is a strain of sexism out there that Islam underscores, but can we be a bit more precise, please? It’s the governments and the fundy-crazies we oppose, not the common people who want to be free.)
Yes. The goat-fuckers can eat me too. Come and get some, Allah Suck a Nut.
How come I always have to be the heavy?
{Enoch–language. We’re not in the commune, remember?}
How come I always have to be the heavy?
{Enoch–language. We’re not in the commune, remember?}