Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Top Take on Recent Riots

From Europe's preeminent pajama person.

From a Barce[lona, Spain]Pundit article, French magazine has just released its latest issue. And it's brave :

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 [/] CHARLIE HÉBDO, a French magazine, has just released its latest issue. And it's brave:

The picture [shown in linked post] which is due to grace the cover of the weekly satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, with the caption "Mohammed overwrought by the fundamentalists," shows Mohammed crying, saying "It's hard to be loved by such idiots." [My ellipses and emphasis]


In the next post down there is a video of Sinnead O'Connor singing (without accompaniment) a beautiful recitative of far Left idealism. Ending with Ms. O'Connor tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II and saying: "Fight the real enemy."

From a Barce[lona, Spain]Pundit article, NOTHING IS SACRED (via Spanish leftist blogger Ignacio Escolar, to his credit):

Tuesday, February 07, 2006 [/] NOTHING IS SACRED (via Spanish leftist blogger Ignacio Escolar, to his credit)

[Above mentioned video ending with tearing up a photo of the pope and saying "Fight the real enemy."]

How many Irish embassies were burnt in Italy, or Spain? Did Sinnead O'Connor have to go in hiding, or with 24/7 protection by bodyguards? Was there any Catholic boycott of Jameson or Guinness?

That's what I thought.

[N.B. Jameson is a brand of Irish whiskey, world's best, actually. Guinness is a brand of malt beverage, made in Ireland by an English firm from a Welsh recipe, with the original intention of providing a lower alcohol content and higher nutritional content than distilled beverages. Also, of course, the world's best.] [My ellipses and emphasis]