The religion of perpetual offence taking is taking offence again. This time over a music video.
In the latest ‘racist music video’ accusation, Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” has sparked an online petition demanding it be pulled from YouTube, with some Muslims claiming it is blasphemous.
More than 50,000 Muslims have pledged their support for the video to be removed because of an offending scene, which shows an Islamic necklace burned by lightning shot from Perry’s fingers.
Shazad Iqbal of Bradford, West Yorkshire, who started theChange.org petition, said the burning of the pendant with the Arabic word for God was “blasphemous” and “distasteful”.
Okay, a couple of points here. Firstly, so far as I am aware, Perry is not a Muslim, therefore Islam and its absurd rules do not apply to her, just as they do not apply to me. And I am more than happy to insult Islam and the Paedo prophet as is thoroughly deserved.
Secondly, Muslims are not entitled to be free from being offended. No one is forcing them to watch the video and be offended. They are making that choice themselves of their own free will. Consequently, they can go get fucked. Indeed, the perpetually offended need to be offended good and hard on a regular basis until they get the message that freedom of speech is more important than their ridiculous cult and its sensibilities.
He added: “Using the name of God in an irrelevant and distasteful manner would be considered inappropriate by any religion.”
Well, tough shit, get over yourself. No one is making you believe silly fairy tales. And anyone who uses the word “inappropriate” is just telling me to stop listening to them. It is the latest word in the lefty lexicon designed to shut down dissenting voices. Personally, I think that insulting the name of god is just dandy. If he, she or it really exists, I doubt that us dishing out insults is likely to be too much of a worry for an omniscient, omnipotent being and as he, she or it probably doesn’t exist then it is even less of a problem. So, it is as appropriate as we decide and I have decided that it is perfectly appropriate.
“Absolutely disgusted at the music industry for allowing this to happen,” wrote Bilal Khan from Birmingham. “Music should be about spreading love not hate.”
Funnily enough, people say that about religion – but I don’t believe it at all. Not least the so-called religion of peace which is anything but. When they stop murdering people for not believing in their invisible friend, I might start to believe that they really mean all of that love and kindness stuff.
Sigh. If these Muslims, for it is they, who are so easily offended by any thing that their limited capacity for thought allows, actually took time to work out the larger picture ( hah! ) and had any understanding of the complexities of life and Human rather than sub Human behaviour, they would keep quiet but they are so blinded by their ignorance that they will never be able to comprehend any thing other than the most base instincts, smashed into them from a very young age thus rendering any latent intellectual capacity nul and void.
It’s not just the Muslims though. I can remember all sorts of mentally-ill Christians getting worked up about a Monty Python film that was even ‘banned’ by various self-righteous town councils in parochial parts of the land….. It’s shown regularly on national television now.
Oh, yes, I remember. They are all bad – although at the moment, it seems Muslims are making the most noise about it.
I don’t think calling people mentally ill helps anything, the reason for the ban which I have never agreed with, was implemented was because it was perceived by certain people as an absolute mockery of the core reason for the belief in Christianity, M.P. mocked Christ the way the Romans had done at his crucifixion. Life of Brian was put together by intelligent people and did deliberately parody Christian beliefs, the Katy Perry video is just as Longrider suggests a reaction by sad young sexually inadequate males to find offense in anything other than there own inadequacies.
Actually I’d count that movie as one of my all time favourites. Pity they didn’t follow it up with a sequel; ‘The Life of Ali’, perhaps. They certainly wouldn’t have been short of material for it.
Maybe the Pythons didn’t fancy spending the rest of their lives in hiding from the inevitable fatwah that would have ensued.
Since Islam deplores the flashing of so much as an ankle’s worth of female flesh, all those Muslims who have watched any Katy Perry video must spend three days atoning with a scourge. One with barbs.
Also, since the stictest of Islam deplores any form of music or dance, the Muslims in that category must spend a month in continuous prayer while seated upon the pinnacle of a twelve-foot sword-blade.
Finally, any man at all who watched a Katy Perry video and managed to see the necklace should undergo rigorous eye testing and psychiatric evaluation, including testing to see if they might be gay.
When they satisfy those criteria, then we can consider their claim to be offended.
And doesn’t Islam, or at least certain branches of it, consider film and video themselves a sin? If so, why was he watching it in the first place? Allah must be most offended by his actions.
Unless of course he didn’t watch it but was told about it by a non-Muslim. In which case Allah will be extremely annoyed that he accepted advice on religious matters from a kuffir.
“…including testing to see if they might be gay.” Now watching a fanatic Muslim undergo this procedure would no doubt be highly amusing – especially if carried out by a politically-correct social services employee desperately trying to reconcile which group to offend. Sort of like “victimhood poker” reversed!