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Lunacy: Theirs and Ours

Oct 11, 2006

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Someone in the Middle East got hold of a photo of the Manhattan Apple Store entrance, while it was under construction, and concluded the building is a deliberate insult to Islam because (while under construction) it resembled the Ka’ba. Note that the structure doesn’t resemble the Ka’ba at all with the shrouding off.

This is a pretty good example of some flaming idiot grasping any excuse to whip up hysteria. The crew at Little Green Footballs (to which I do not link) is having a high time making fun of the hysterics (i.e., “what doesn’t offend these dickheads?!?! geez”).

Righties aren’t that crazy … oh, wait …

Here’s Michelle Malkin whipping up hysteria over the Flight 93 Memorial because she thinks the memorial is an Islamic crescent. Here’s the Flopping Ace whipping up hysteria over the Arizona 9/11 memorial because he thinks the memorial is an Islamic crescent. (He has political issues with the memorial as well, since it doesn’t reflect rightie historical revisionism.)

Here’s the Liberal Avenger on wingnut hysteria over the Flight 93 memorial. A fun read.

Our loonies and their loonies look more and more like mirror images of each other every day.

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2 Comments

a517dogg • Oct 11, 2006 @12:22 pm

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2004/11/10/01247/557

“Instructions. For Questions 1 and 2, assume you are a violent extremist…
“Question 2: In radicalizing your sympathizers, who is your best ally?

“No points awarded for “the media” or “sympathetic foreign governments”. In radicalizing your apathetic sympathizers, you have no better ally than the violent extremists on the other side.”
Swami • Oct 12, 2006 @2:00 am

It’s good to see that Michelle Malkin is still manning the barricades. I just read recently that the FBI is faced with an extreme shortage of Arabic translators necessary to fulfill their mission of defending America against terrorists. And I recalled that Michelle Malikn raised an army of translators quite recently to scour declassified Iraqi documents for evidence of an al-qaida connection to Saddam. So naturally, seeing a need, and seeing the means to fulfill a need, I got to thinking maybe we should approach Michelle and ask her to shift a few divisions of her army of translators toward the national effort of the FBI. Not that Michelle’s work isn’t important, but the FBI only has 6 proficient Arabic translators..