So two silly Islamist guys in Texas exercised their Second Amendment rights and tried to riddle Pamela Geller's stupid "Draw the Prophet" meeting in Garland with bullets. (And got killed in the process.) And now we must ask ourselves: What was proved here?
Easy: that everyone involved is an idiot. The gunmen for taking Pamela Geller seriously, and Pamela Geller for being — well, Pamela Geller.
Yep, even though we have no (pardon the expression) dog in the draw-Mohammad fight, we know that those two late, unlamented gentlemen in Texas were ridiculously taken in by a professional hatemonger. They would have been better off following the example of the founder of the North Texas Islamic Council, who said Geller's event was "a gimmick...Pamela Geller and people like her have no power. All they can do is cause commotion and bait people into things."
Amen, brother. Sadly, a lack of maturity definitely permeates public discourse these days.
We cats are not atheists ourselves — such as Britain's possible next Prime Minister — but we can't help thinking that the public square would be a lot better off if religion just didn't exist. Since that doesn't seem possible, perhaps the foaming-at-the-mouth Islamic guys and the rabid, nutcase Republican right wing could try raising their emotional intelligence a little bit? We cats HISS.
(IMAGE: Nadir Soofi and Elton Simpson, total oafs.)
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