A touching display of solemn horseshit

I lived in New York during the massive Northeast blackout of 2003. The national news actually ran stories about how great it was that the city did not burn to the ground with looting and riots. And I remember thinking, "Is New York so bad that we actually get applause just for behaving like normal, rational people?"

I bring this up because Saudi Arabia's King Adbullah was just in New York for some "interfaith dialogue" crapola at the United Nations. And everybody from Tony Blair to the wackadoo Washington Times is falling all over themselves to point out how great it is that the king and other Muslims didn't walk out when Israeli President Shimon Peres got up to speak. They're being applauded for not behaving like total assholes.

And this dialogue, stunt, whatever you call it... it's meant to endorse a statement issued at the end of last summer's Muslim World League "Interfaith Conference," which called for a global law to punish blasphemy. In other words, they want to give religious leaders the right to criminalize and punish any speech or activity they determine to be an insult to religion. So, you know that whole Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Forget about it. Somebody's feelings might get hurt.

Look, before you get your panties in a fatwah, I'm not saying Islam is any worse than any other religion. They're all equally insane. If you're neurotic enough to need religion in your life, fine. Just keep that shit to yourself.