Marc Perkel Rantz

Marc, you rock.

Islam, we will say whatever the fuck we want. We have free speech and we will exercise it, and if it pisses you off, tough. If you try to punish our "heresy" by terrorizing and killing our people, we will return the favor tenfold. So sit down and shut up and learn to live with it.

I laughed my fucking ass off at this post!!!

Marc, this is dangerous racist nonsense. You should know better than the brand a whole religion by the reactions of a minority. In fact, the cartoon that caused this fuss made exactly the same mistake.

There is no smoke without fire. The cartoons were publish last september, but the outrage came a lot later. It seems it was Saudi Arabia that started it to divert attention from another 350 pilgrims killed during a religious event in Mecca.

I agree with you Mark that free speech especially when it is used to shed light on the violent nature of the major religions is very important. However, see how easily it turns into threats and intolerance by morons like Eric? With a touch of groupthink getting into the mix what you get is rampant xenophobia.

Dumbfucks like you Eric are the reason it’s sometimes necessary to put a leash on free speech.

Go Marc! It's time to nuke those backward, uneducated, camel lovin, muslim assholes!

Here, here. I'm in the UK and I've been saying more or less the same thing regarding the cartoon thing. The Muslim moderates (if they exist) are just as shit scared of these lunatics as the rest of us. Note that in Egypt there was a ferry disaster a couple of days back. It appears the ferry company is somewhat culpable. The Muslim reaction? Burn down the ferry companies office. Also the Iranians have just cut all ties, diplomatic and financial with the Danes over these cartoons. These fuckers won't tell me what to believe anymore than any other religious nutters.

Well that Cartoons kinda hit home, thats why the muslims are reacting so violently! Truth hurts ain't it, and look how the cartoons are manifesting themselves, btw love the bomb turban! Hitler's got the right idea with the gas chamber, but the wrong religion, muslims deserved the gas chamber more than anybody else

Mark i totaly agree with you that we have the right to say what ever we want. The problem is most Americans have no clue what their saying, coined the phrase "American Idiot". But really there are around a billion muslims in the world and most of them are not terrorists and dont kill others in the name of god, so Islam is actually not a violent religion

Like fundamentalist Xtians -- only far worse -- Muslims are united by a religion that is undeniably controlled by Fear. They are what Xtian fundies are trying to be (I give you James Dobson) and have been unsuccessful at becoming only because in countries like the US, we have a tradition that says, "We say what we want, up yours if you don't like it." Cartoons of questionable tastefulness should not be rewarded with anything other than bitching and even protest -- not censorship, violent rioting, and ducking. Caving to fundie morons, whether they are Xtian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim or any other morons, is disgraceful. So-called "enlightened" folks who knock you and others for calling it like it is wouldn't want their sons and daughters being subjected to the brutality that runs rampant throughout the Muslim world with lots of official sanctioning. Tell them to stuff it, Mark.

I once saw an avatar that said: "I support free speech, except for you."

So this is the new America now, freedom of speech is okay so long as it's something we agree with, then dave is right, "American Idiot" certainly does fit here. And the responses, sad to say that anything that sheep-like, semi-educated White Americans say anymore really surprises me.

Extremeists from all religions should be shut down, including Christianity, and any one who thinks that Xtian extremists aren't as bad as Muslims, need only look at "pro-life" activists...oh...and ANY White Supremist group in this country.

I agree with poster "Ian" that this is dangerous, racist nonsense. Marc, you say that Islam promotes violence on account of a few protests that result in a few deaths. But Bush's "crusade" against Iraq has resulted in anywhere from 30,000 to 250,000 deaths, depending upon who you believe. Racist stereotypes against Muslims have enlisted the support of evangelical Christians in this war, branding it a "war of civilizations". You apparently buy into this philosophy without asking whose violence is the greater...and whose imperialism started the whole thing.

Conclusion: Western state-supported violence is a vastly more deadly and potent form of terrorism than anything Islam has perpetrated or devised. And this Western state-supported violence has the full support of evengelical Christians all across the USA.

Your post on this topic buys into the myth of a civilizational war that neocons are selling, and turns a ignores the morality-blind doctine of American exceptionalism.

Can you really be so ignorant of the full, bloody, history of Western imperialism that you actually think Muslims are more violent than us? Hellfire and damnation, man, the economic sanctions on Iraq killed 1.3 million!

Our crazy violence trumps theirs, easily, by at least a thousandfold.

Hi everybody!
Just read this blog accidentially, and still I wonder why it is Americans found out the truth that European morons refuse to see.
By 2020, my country Germany will be muslim, and so will be France, GB and so on. Everywhere the muslim 'community'(I prefer calling them a bunch of lunatics) grows strong, it's the same througout Europe:
they rape all the white girls (bitches to them),
they praise Jihad in their mosques,
they establish their own laws of insanity.
What do the Europeans do about it? You guessed it, nothing. (did they ever do anything at all?)
Man, I really hope that when Europe has been finally islamised by 2040 or so, you guys are gonna nuke this breathing shit until they glow.
That would be nice, sitting in front of my TV in the US and laughing my ass of at the sight of nuked multiculturalists.
Just got myself an ''Infidel'' t-shirt. You wouldn't find anything that cool in Europe.

I found your comment entertaining!

I came across your website. Here, in Thailand we have the same problem when innocent people got killed in the 3 southern provinces almost everyday.

Most of them are Buddhists, shot dead, burnt beyond reconigtion, throat slashed, head cut off....or just a plain car bomb.

Thai Muslims say do not use the word "Muslim terrorists". It hurts their feeling! So, my people call them "the southern bandits" Well!, indeed they are all Muslims, anyway.

When our security forces take laws into their own hands...they cry foul. "We are oppressed by the Bhudhists". Malaysian media slams "Thai Bhudhist pigs". But I think that it is very predictable for a country that once jailed Anwar Ibrahim for being GAY.

They want apology from us! They want us to reconcile!

When asked about the deaths of those Bhudhists... Oh! yes! that's sad that they were killed by those fanatics. But those fanatics are Muslims.. sorry! I mean southern bandits.

I am afraid that one day Thailand will end up like Tibet. People are killed, raped, and it is just "karma" thing. People die with happy faces.

Now Thailand is under martial law introduced by the junta. Accidently, the head of it is Gen Sonthi who is a Muslim army general. He appointed some Muslims ministers...not that bad since they do not like infidels anyway.

Although the coup had nothing to do with Islam. I think that is too much. We are refrained to make comments about Thai Muslims. We will be regarded as racists.

At least I can post here.

Thank Al Gore for the internet!

I believe that people should have the right to walk down the road, go on the bus, etc, without having the fear and risk of being killed by a suicide bomber.
Until this can happen the extremists of the world should be continually erradicated.

i dont like people. im 48 years of age. i have seen people do many things. i dont like people. also islam is more a cult than main stream religion. most religions require ignorance and/or the inability to think. for religious dogma to thrive. people have to be a little more ignorant and slow for islam. i mean a muslim male just cant figure out what to do if a woman looks at him. . . ?

The real problem for Islam, and all religions, is that it is based on ignorance, arrogance, and a willingness to accept without thought, the superstitions that were created ages ago by people that, on the evolutionary scale of psychology, were just coming out of the primeval soup. As long as the majority of our species subscribes to this idiocy, we will be evolutionaryly stunted. All hail the Easter bunny!

Anyone who bases their life on the guidance of an imaginary being is fucking crazy by definition. The Christians , the Muslims and the Jews are all fucking insane. They believe in things that dont exist and base their decision making on the guidance of someone who doesnt exist. When you build your policies, choices and decision making on something that doesnt exist no wonder the world is fucked !