Memetic rabies and dorsalic tabes,
Necrotising fascitis, tied up with string…
These are a few of my favourite things…

By the way, I was pointing out that Pipes was so full of shit he squeaks back when I still hated Bill Clinton. Ah, nostalgia!

Try as hard she might, Pammy Juggs could never quite get “flipping the bird” right

AND he looks like Jafar from Aladdin.

Try this fun exercise out. Every time you want to type “Muslim,” type “Jew” instead. See how that suits you.

Damn straight. Voting rights only for Yetisyn. Pinks, Glorps, Yes-men, and Kens&Barbies all get relocated to Siberia. A man should have the absolute right to marry a prarie squid if they’re truly in love. And every other day a religious holiday!

Seriously, I’ve been working on a blog post myself about the whole Islam/Islamist thing, bascially to the effect that Pipes and his ilk claim that it’s just “Islamists” they oppose, but when you aplly a little pressure the crust breaks and you see it’s Islam itself they hate.

I would like to know why Pipes has adopted a hair-style that looks so much like a middle-aged Wolverine.

He fears the pelicans.

I would like to know why Pipes has adopted a hair-style that looks so much like a middle-aged Wolverine.

Could it have something to do with having his picture taken with an actual middle-aged wolverine?

Of course, in spite of their stated concerns about religious fervor and interference with government, in spite of their ostensible concern for ‘moderates’ and ‘Westernizers’ in the Middle East, people like Pipes will nine times out of ten react to news of BJP-associated race riots and other contemptible viciousness by literally fascist ideologues with cheering and encouragement. Anything to stroke their petty bigotry and ratchet up the level of ethnic strife in our world.

What I love most about Pipes is that he’s the son of Richard “The CIA Is Dramatically Underestimating The USSR’s Capacity To Build Invisible Bombers Out Of Cardboard” Pipes, so there’s two generations of fear-mongering right-wing tools masquerading as historians and scholars. Like Daniel, every specific claim Richard Pipes ever made was wrong – he has actually managed to make incorrect claims from nothing but evidence, and he’s basically made history and scholarship in the United States appreciably worse. Pipes fils, of course, doesn’t have a universally-reviled USSR to get away with militantly poor scholarship about – so he’s the head of a national network designed to force any perspective on the Muslim world besides “monolithic evil empire which must be destroyed” out of the mainstream.

Pipes is a bad person, a worthless scholar, and a fucking traitor. Like father, like son; just as Daniel Pipes’s worthless scaremongering wasted resources and brought the United States needlessly to the brink of nuclear war, his son obviously feels it’s more important that he be taken seriously as a Serious Intellectual than that Americans be able to travel unmolested and raise children without fear of international terrorism.

Of course, this is neglecting the chief unifying factor of the Pipes dynasty: they’re political whores. They will lie for the sake of the Party in a way that even the runners-up in ideological prissiness – the Tory historiography of the USSR and third world – would find disgusting. If it is useful for the Republicans for Trig Walker Pipes to pretend Buddhism is an international front for militant pedophiles, he’ll be rewriting the Islamophobe mythos for the Buddha in a heartbeat. “Hoaxter and huxter” is giving them too good; the place nature intended them is a cheap bordello, and God willing that is where they will ultimately be relegated, no more useful to anyone than German invasion pulp.

ACORN SUCKS: You obviously haven’t read the Bill of Rights. Racial profiling is no where mentioned.

It’s part of that “equal protection under the law” thingee, Mr. Sucks. Or can I call you “Acorn”?

Look it up.

And “nowhere” is one word, BTW.

Wingnut trolls are getting pathetic these days. It’s like they’re not even really trying anymore.

First, though, an explanation of what I meant by Muslims who “support militant Islam”: these are Islamists, individuals who seek a totalistic, worldwide application of Islamic law, the Shari‘a. In particular, they seek to build an Islamic state in Turkey, replace Israel with an Islamic state and the U.S. constitution with the Koran.

Myself, I want a totalistic, worldwide application of the Church of the Sub-Genius. In particular, I seek to build a magical flying unicorn landing strip in Turkey, replace Israel with Lollapalooza, and the US constitution with Finnigan’s Wake.

Both of these fantasies have about an equal chance of occurring in reality-based reality. Hail Bob™!

(BTW, the word “totalistic” doesn’t appear in my Webster’s Unabridged. “Totalitarian” is correct usage, or simply “total”. How is it these wankers can be emplyed as professional writers?)

But, dear sir, had you taken into account the incontrovertible fact, backed by decades of observation and testing, that Daniel Pipes has, in every single instance in which he has made his point of view known, been 100%, fucking WRONG?