Wednesday, June 27, 2007
"Rage Boy" is everywhere
Islamic "Rage Boy" is everywhere, a "craze that is sweeping the nation."
We have been writing for a long time about Islam's "violence veto," so there was simply no way that we weren't going to join the "Rage Boy" fun.
Now, some of you will think that I am a bad person for taking joy in the rage of others, but that is not what I am doing. I am taking joy in the mocking of the idea implicit in violent Islamist demonstrations -- that the intensity of their rage can somehow invalidate as unjust ideas expressed or actions lawfully taken elsewhere. In fact, Rage Boy's hurt feelings or rage or threat of retaliation or actual arson can have no bearing on the justice of my ideas or lawful actions -- they are just or not just regardless of his feelings, which in any case are comically prone to injury:
We are incessantly told that the removal of the Saddam Hussein despotism has inflamed the world's Muslims against us and made Iraq hospitable to terrorism, for all the world as if Baathism had not been pumping out jihadist rhetoric for the past decade (as it still does from Damascus, allied to Tehran). But how are we to know what will incite such rage? A caricature published in Copenhagen appears to do it. A crass remark from Josef Ratzinger (leader of an anti-war church) seems to have the same effect. A rumor from Guantanamo will convulse Peshawar, the Muslim press preaches that the Jews brought down the Twin Towers, and a single citation in a British honors list will cause the Iranian state-run press to repeat its claim that the British government—along with the Israelis, of course—paid Salman Rushdie to write The Satanic Verses to begin with. Exactly how is such a mentality to be placated?
Let's be honest. The metaphoric Rage Boy is a petulent, self-centered child who stamps his feet and throws his juice box rather than making a productive contribution to the world's economy or stock of artistic, cultural, or scientific achievements. Do not confuse his anger with moral authority; it is the opposite.
CWCID: Stanley Kurtz.
13 Comments:
By 
Purple Avenger, at
Wed Jun 27, 11:50:00 PM:
Exactly how is such a mentality to be placated?
Large quantities of Thorazine.
By Papa Ray, at
Wed Jun 27, 11:55:00 PM:
Na, I think you got him pegged wrong. At first I think he attended any protest just because he was bored and didn't want to go home because he had chores waiting.
But after a few, the people throwing the staged protests liked his performance so much that they asked him to show up at them all, even notifying him on the new phone they gave him, so as to be able to call him, and tell him where and when to show up.
But...Rage Boy knew he had something going on, cause he had practiced long and hard in his mother's mirror to perfect his rage. So, he told them of course he would be grateful for the honor of protesting and showing his rage, but he would need expense money, of course, and a small investment for new clothes would be nice.
Now in his new found career, he and the mullah's and the media are all happy, and look forward to a long association.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
By Purple Avenger, at
Thu Jun 28, 08:59:00 AM:
Rage Boy is a franchise now...like Looter Guy.
By SR, at
Thu Jun 28, 09:01:00 AM:
Perhaps, much like anti-war protesters in the 60's
he's in it for the sex. Chicks dig rage boyz.
By 
, at
Thu Jun 28, 09:33:00 AM:
That's what Islam is: a pathology of perpetual rage against any perceived insult.
But of course, it's also the religion of peace.........?
By , at
Thu Jun 28, 02:23:00 PM:
Don't say I'm prone to anger or I'll get angry!
By , at
Thu Jun 28, 02:28:00 PM:
He looks like the guy on the Preparation-H commercial.
itching, burning?
By Christopher Chambers, at
Thu Jun 28, 04:02:00 PM:
First, TH you were raised better than to allow attacks on some one else's faith on your blog--like one commenter pissing all over Islam. Maybe that's one reason why this clown in the photo and his pals dude gets such an audience.
Which brings me to this: we don't have a tantrum-tossig child to deal with. (or a dangerous, smary teenager, like China) We're dealing more with something akin to a bitter old man who's ramblings have stirred up a bunch of ignorant youngsters. Look, this part of the world already gave us these things you quite petulantly said they do not provide--culture, art, technology, etc. They were doing so while white Europeans were squattng in mud-dabbed huts, stink, dank castles and ascribing epilespy or a woman's orgasm to Satan. Half the terms NASA astronomers use, math profs and doctors, etc. came from them. But that was a thousand years ago. Their time's over. Their last even remote wisp of glory went up in smoke in 1918 when the Ottoman Empire fell apart, and they are so whacked out that over this long decline and fall that they take on and the uniquely white European tradition of murdering Jews--something they had never been about for centurues; indeed during the Inquisition many Jews fled FOR Muslim lands.
Hell, you even saw precursors of this universal "f- you" and rage when the Mahdi and Kalipha went ape-sh*t in the Sudan in the 1880s and 1890s, and the Brits learned the hard way that a massive inferiority complex is a force to be reckoned with.
I don't think you meant to say "placated." Slapping some reality on folks is just a part of the tonic, and you can't be hypocritical, hateful or self-righteous as well. If you assuage this allegorical "old man's spirit" somehow, and give the younger spirits something to live for and something better to do with their time, then random angry Muslim guy and the random imams going to draw leaner and leaner crowds, and soon he'll just be some ass braying in the wind, like Ann Coulter. LOL
By , at
Thu Jun 28, 05:18:00 PM:
Mr. Chambers:
You really should improve your research before commenting. I would suggest to you that most of the scientific and mathmatical discoveries ascribed to ou Muslim brothers came in fact from the people the conquered.
If by "bitter old man" you mean Salman Rushdie, he certainly was not old when he wrote the book which caused he incurred the wrath of the ayotollah.
I look forward to your defence of the Pope when he declares death to all artists the next time Piss Christ appears in one of our renowned institutes of higher learning.
Sometimes I wonder if you are not Tigger in disguise just stirring the pot.
By antithaca, at
Thu Jun 28, 09:55:00 PM:
Christopher dredges up some bits of history that are important to know but, has lost the plot.
The issue is not "Islam" but "Rage Boy". The issue is not what has Islam done but, what has Rage Boy done.
A wee-bit of Google-based research reveals that he appears to be a protester-for-hire...appearing prominently in many wire service photos over an extended period of time.
In other words, we're being played.
By pst314, at
Thu Jun 28, 10:49:00 PM:
christopher Chambers:
The causes of Muslim rage and violence long precede the ascendency of the West.
I suggest that you start your education by reading these books by historian Bat Ye'or:
The Dhimmi: Jews & Christians Under Islam
The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude : Seventh-Twentieth Century
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide
By pst314, at
Thu Jun 28, 10:56:00 PM:
Muslim rage bears a significant resemblance to KKK rage: Those #*%@ darkies/infidels are obviously inferior to the master race/master faith, but they refuse to behave in a subservient fashion, and what's worse, they are more prosperous and better educated. Intolerable!
By , at
Mon Jul 02, 12:43:00 AM:
RAGE BOY should meet AL GORE a real crazy infedel and earth worshipping nut case
