Apologizing, Ad Nauseum

Pardon me for living.  Might just as well bow and scrape in apology for existence when your existence is the fount of humiliation and anguish for so many delusional faithful whose entire value in life surrounds the defence of their faith against the hordes of unbelievers whose mention of their god is an affront the solution to which is berserk violence.

The simple fact is that presumed offence is a technique, a mechanism, a perpetual affront-taking on the part of the faithful against the very existence of all those who presume to exist in defiance of submission to Islam.  Just as in 7th Century deserts of Arabia the Bedouin swept through tribal cultures to convert or behead, so does that time-honoured tradition remain the method of transmitting the faith.

Those who innocently enough point out inconsistencies in claims to represent a religion of peace and brotherhood become instant enemies who have well earned the wrath of the ravening mobs eager to fulfill their martyrdom obligations and take their place in Paradise serviced by willing virgins.  Those are the naive, manipulated by experts in the traditions of Islam, clerics to whom the stench of the kuffar represents the fires of Hell.

From the initial revelations that a tired old cow of a video depicting the Prophet Mohammed in historic but unflattering terms was touted by the mullahs doing the work of al-Qaeda as offending the core of Islamic beliefs, urging the masses to burn with righteous indignation that their sacred beliefs had been subjected to unappeasable scorn, the anniversary of 9-11 delivered its message.

A message that the American administration spurned, in its desperate attempt to believe that all is well between the West and East.  But the name of the game was to inflate the mocking of Islam, making it all the easier for leaders to insist that Muslim rage is understandable, as a response by believers to the insulters of Islam who by their actions deserve to die.

The more the American administration stumbled over its own awkward left feet in proffering apology after apology, while feebly remonstrating that the right to freedom of speech is the American piety to liberty and equality, the greater the indignation from Muslim heads of state who gloated in charging the West with deliberately offending 1.5-billion Muslims, a state of affairs that could no longer be tolerated.

The world is capable of absorbing and tolerating low expectations of human behaviour from Muslims, but must not stoop so low as to accept that some among the populations of the West, incensed that their own sacred religious beliefs can be destroyed and their religious precepts scorned by faithful Muslims.

But the reverse cannot be permitted to occur.