Could you point me to the place where Allah said he wasn’t mocking anyone’s faith? Because he was mocking the faith of those who think God wants them to kill infidels, especially Jews. But describing it as hate-filled assumes a seriousness that was not evident in the writing. Allah was doing obvious schtick, and the end of allahpundit.com came when he tired of it.

For people who run an alleged humor site, you fuckers sure are humorless.

I think the religious should be busier counting their blessings and spend much less time feeling attacked while perfectly safe to practice whatever sort of blessings they are.

There is no 1st Amendment violation for Michelle Malkin et al. to say that John Edwards ought to fire Marcotte for her writings. Nor would it be a 1st Amendment violation for Edwards to fire her for her writings. And if he chooses not to do so, then William Donohue of the Catholic League has the right to criticize Edwards, and Edwards has the right to ignore him if he doesn’t think Donohue’s criticism is going to affect Edwards’ own base of supporters.

One imagines that the next notion down the pike is going to be that Allah was merely writing satire. And indeed, normally, we’d be down with that. But when you read the Hot Air piece in all its switchbacks and updates, you find that Allah and Bryan have already carefully blocked that exit, doing a #2 woo-woo war dance of outrage over the notion that Amanda’s writing should be taken at anything but than face value.

The problem is not that anyone here fails to recognize parody. The problem is that the bloggers at Hot Air fail to recognize satire or context. And the context of Amanda’s post that Allahpundit is clutching his pearls over is a debunking of the misinformation on birth control that a Catholic premarital seminar was providing–and I’m being charitable by calling it “misinformation.” “Boldfaced lying about how birth control pills work” would be more accurate. Amanda’s weapon of choice against that nonsense was satire. Cribbing from the definition helpfully provided by Sean in another thread:

1.a. A work or composition in prose or verse which (usu. humorously) exposes prevailing vices or follies or ridicules an (esp. prominent) individual; a lampoon; a performance or broadcast of a similar nature.

Here’s the best part: Allahpundit, Preston, and even the crazy one all know this. Normally–that is, if no political hay were to be made off Edwards hiring Amanda–they’d even agree with Amanda that the Catholic church’s teachings on birth control are pretty backward (when they’re not outright false). I mean, last I checked, not one of them was the father of seven good Catholic children.

I’m tired of this sudden conservative genius for missing the point. You guys are not actually that stupid. You know damn well what the point was–with Amanda’s post as well as with what Gavin did here, which was to show that the standard ol’ Cuckoo for Cockopuffs tries to apply to Amanda’s writing doesn’t work when it’s applied to his ideological cronies, and therefore likely doesn’t work applied to Amanda either.

Now if you’d just quit trying to play the rest of us for fools, that would be fabulous.

(e)links has table support. No need to wait. So does w3m. elinks even has basic javascript support and color.

I’ll be honest, though. I’m using Firefox right now because I do web development, and I gots to have my Firebug and Web Developer Toolbar.

Allah knew it, kufr. Behind that goofy lopsided smile beats the heart of a bloodthirsty mujahid. Allah admires your savage beating of Brad DeLong, Reynolds–even though the “beating” to which Allah refers was, regrettably, merely figurative–and thus he cannot help but mourn that you remain a complete tool of the Jew. Why do you not join Allah? Seriously, with your hype traffic and Allah’s mad skillz we could set this shit off. Besides, it is not as though Allah has nothing to offer you. Did you know that there are no gun-control laws in Dar al-Islam, infidel? Truly it is like one big OK Corral. In fact, we give guns to two-year-olds. More guns, less Jews! Allah does not have quite as much to offer you in terms of nanotechnology, as the ummah is still about 1500 years behind the West in technological sophistication. But we are working on it, Allah can promise you that. So what do you say? Allah will be Emperor of the entire world in a few decades anyway so why not set yourself up now to be Darth Vader? [...]

[...] Can you blame [Allah] for wanting to kill everyone in the world? Ah well. Let us turn now to the news, where we shall find once again that the Jew is plotting. What do you expect, though? Treason and deception are in his blood. By the way, did you notice that that last article was published in an Egyptian government newspaper? What happened, Zionists? Allah thought you had a treaty with Egypt. Tell me, is this “treaty” anything like the “treaty” we had with the Quraish? Oho! Oho! Oh, Jews, sometimes you make Allah laugh so much that it is hard for him to stay mad at you! Even as you brutally oppress the noble mujahedeen who are trying to kill you, Allah cannot help but be amused by you, how in some ways you are brilliant and in others you are profoundly retarded. Truly you are like fucking Rain Man. Allah is going to buy his next car in Tel Aviv, as he expects most of the dealers there will be pricing new models at “about a hundred dollars.”

Allah must go now. He is in a bad mood anyway from having judged a bunch of Christians this morning, which is always one of the most annoying and tedious parts of his job. Every time they come before Allah and Allah introduces himself, they just kind of smile nervously and start looking around–as though someone is putting them on, like Jesus is hiding behind a curtain or something with Allen Funt. So Allah has to sit there and try to explain to them that yes, their beliefs were wrong, and yes, he knows how shocked they must be that a guy who could not stop himself from getting nailed to a fucking two-by-four is not actually the one true god. The stupidest part, though, is that when they ask Allah to prove that he is god and Allah does something really cool for them like extinguish the sun or turn himself into a giant frog or whatever he feels like doing that day, they still are not convinced until Allah finally breaks down and gives himself stigmata. Got that? Making the sun disappear: Just an illusion. A small cut in the palm of Allah’s hand: ALLAHU AKBAR. Really, Christians, you need to start thinking outside the box. And while we are at it, what is going on with this, kufr? Allah recently heard about this and nearly coughed up a lung, so violent were his dry heaves. Do Catholics really believe they are eating Christ when they take the host? Allah knows that your priests have a taste for flesh–the younger the better, it seems–but this is ridiculous. And you have the gall to mock Muslims for believing that Satan lives in their nostrils at night? Allah will admit that we have our eccentric beliefs like any other faith, but at least cannibalism is not part of the core curriculum. Stop chewing on Jesus, you ghoulish fucks.

Allahu Akbar.

Fuck you, Professor Blather.

Do you honestly, sincerely not understand the concept of parody – taking a position that is the opposite of your own, then exaggerating the position, to mock those that actually hold those views?

Seriously? You really didn’t get it?

Not to use the most popular current example, but since it should be an easy one for a liberal to grasp … you DO know that Stephen Colbert isn’t really a right wing extremist right? Or that the “correspondents” on the Daily Show don’t *really* mean what they’re saying, right?

You *do* know that Allah’s post was rather obviously mocking people like YOU who actually think that way … right?

Please tell me you’re not that stupid. Jeebus.

(Note: the above use of “Jeebus” was, in fact, a parody. Mocking those who mock Catholicism. If you think I was actually using the word “Jeebus” sincerely, than you still haven’t grasped “parody,” and should probably have been aborted by your mother, as was her Jeebus-given right).

Ah, good times.

Hmmm. Amanda, of the so many hate-filled blog posts about faith, is agnostic or atheist and has very little faith…

In a contest of penis vs. faith, penis always remains standing.

Hmmm. Amanda, of the so many hate-filled blog posts about faith, is agnostic or atheist and has very little faith…

actually, a treo 700p running whatever.

What’s all this? Errors on your serial port connection?

It’s my all time favorite quote from the Jargon File:

> I got X Windows running under Linux!

d00d! u R an 31337 hax0r

What’s all this? Errors on your serial port connection?

And Lynx was the bomb. Who needs graphics on their web pages, anyhow?

Though support for tables would be nice. I hear that’s going to be added real soon now.

Gad, a snarky reference to table support in Lynx. My life is so pathetic.

Of course, that was twelve years ago, but I’m still not over it.

And Lynx was the bomb. Who needs graphics on their web pages, anyhow?