We couldn’t resist reproducing this post from On the Pisiiing section of Clareification, the weekly student newsletter of Clare College, Cambridge University. Students can be so precocious!

Saturday, February 3, 2007

It’s a year since the demonstration outside the Danish Embassy in London, featuring, among others, the placards shown below. These and numerous other Muslims worldwide were protesting against cartoons that depicted Muhammad and suggested that Islam was violent. More than a hundred people were killed during the protests, including some who were, for example, burned alive by mobs.

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In the words of the great sage Jamie Foxx: We shall fucking see

Its a few months since the Pope’s speech produced a similar response. Which brings me to:

First Tangent

Are you a total prick? Achieved nothing in the last few hundred years? Worried that you might be the Islamic world? Then take our little quiz:

Question 1

Someone calls you a rapist. Do you:

A. Ignore it.

B. Laugh at it.

C. Argue against it.

D. Sue for libel in a civil court.

E. Prepare to defend yourself against such charges in crminal court.

F. Rape as many people as you can find and issue a rape-wa against whoever made the original accusation.

If you answered A, B, C, D or E then congratulations, you are not the Islamic world.

Question 2

You follow the teachings of X. Someone challenges you to come up with something new that X brought into the world that was not evil. Do you:

A. Present one such example, thus ending the discussion immediately and slightly embarrassing your interlocutor.

B. Get raping.

You get the idea. Here’s a bonus:

Question 3

A furious ginger-haired man is protesting in Parliament Square. He’s shouting loudly whilst kicking a puppy. He’s offended by recent suggestions that those with ginger hair are inclined to harm animals. Do you:

A. Ignore him.

B. Laugh at him.

C. Try and help the puppy.

D. Increase his benefit payment, put him in charge of foreign policy, and reproach the puppy for causing trouble.

If you answered A,B or C then congratulations, you are sane.

Variants for D include:

D. Make gingerophobia a crime for the sole purpose of incarcerating Nick Griffin.

D. Invite passive-aggressive ginger community leaders on to Newsnight to explain whether they pity themselves a lot or only a little bit.

D. Etc.