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January 22, 2007
"Nostrils: Satan’s Whore-Portals!"
Of course, it’s not gay marriage that enflames the Islamists. Heterosexual marriage enflames them, if the wife gets to drive and leave the house without a black sack covering her naughty bits, like her shameful wrists or noses. (Nostrils: Satan’s Whore-Portals!) Take a look around, check the latest things to which the more aggravated folk object: dogs, because their saliva is Unclean; passengers in a cab who have a bottle of Shiraz, because alcohol is Forbidden, and now cigarettes. Dogs, liquor and smokes. I can see not trusting someone who doesn’t like one of those. All three? Deal’s off.
These are the acts of the extreme believers, not the majority, but in the end that’s irrelevant. The extremists are accommodated and the moderates undercut. It buys a day's peace, but it worsens everyone's tomorrows.
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Anyway, it was the customer’s fault. The customer didn’t get the memo: assume devout Muslims will not sell cigarettes. But assume nothing else, I guess. Thus the virtues of tolerance and multiculturalism, intended to construct that gorgeous mosaic in which everyone holds hands and smiles at the common future, ends up codifying a tiered society that imposes the values of the least tolerant on the most. It seems as if the cultural commissars believe there is a magic point at which the culmulative amount of prostration, apologies and accomodations will satisfy the ranters, the plotters, the seethers, the madmen who live to hate and hate that we live. But the extremists won't be happy until the Queen wears a veil - and the next day they'll demand she give up the Corgis. Unclean.
"A good weekend," by James Lileks, The Bleat, January 22, 2007
Posted at January 22, 2007 07:57 AM | Categories: Gynephobes
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