Happy Ramadan....now die, motherfucker!

I am really dumbfounded by this, although we should be used to it by now. At Easter and Christmas, Christians tend to have truces. Of course, the sectarian violence in Iraq means that the fact that a Sunni is celebrating Ramadan is an insult that must be avenged by blood, and vice versa. If you're one of the fanatics...now, as you may have guessed, we're not reall excited about fanatics here at Defeatist Central, except for some sports fans and musicians. Adults who dress up as Harry Potter or Snape need to be committed.  People in Southern Connecticut who suddenly became Giants fans in February 08 need to be whipped. If I find myself in another argument about who's better, the Stones or the Airplane, I'm going to get very irritated. But, I probably won't kill anyone over it.

Christians in general stopped killing for Christ as a mass movement following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, after the various Protestant and Christian armies basically eliminated most of the German people. If you kill everybody, that is a bad thing. If you think that the Irish stuff was about religion, you're naive. The IRA is not a Catholic organization; granted, the Orange Order is sort of a religious organization, but it's like the Knights of Columbus for Protestant Masons. In Iraq, these dipshits are still enraged over what went down in Karbala when Omar and his forty thieves were either martyred or executed or ate some bad rat on a stick and croaked. 

The randomness of the violence is what makes it particularly absurd. If you're a Sunni going to gym and a Sunni-inspired bomb blasts you into pieces, are you a Martyr and entitled to your 70 virgins? Or are you a chump? My guess, of course, is chump...but that goes for all of it or all of them. This is actually a win-win for those of us in the WOPF...if the People of Faith all slaughter each other in the name of the great Jehovah, Allah, Twisted Sister of the Traveling pants or whatever, we just need to keep away from the murderous sonsabitches...

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[Paul]

If I ever grow up to be a Defeatist, I want to be "Twisted Sister of the Traveling Pants."