Beauty pageants can be murder
Posted: November 27, 2002
© 2002 Universal Press Syndicate
by Ann Coulter
Inasmuch as liberals
are demanding that Americans ritualistically proclaim, "Islam is a
religion of peace," Muslims might do their part by not killing people
all the time.
Recently, the Religion
of Peace suffered a PR setback when Muslims in Nigeria welcomed the
Miss World beauty pageant by slaughtering Christians in the street and
burning churches to the ground. At last count, more than 200 people
were dead, hundreds more were injured and thousands were left without
homes. Also, the Nigerian contestant's chances of winning "Miss
Congeniality" were dashed.
Leaping at the one
chance they had to attract positive press to their country and perhaps
begin the process of dragging themselves out of the 13th century,
Nigerian Muslims instead chose to hack innocent people to death with
machetes in the name of Allah. Pageant officials pulled up stakes and
took the show to London. At least the Christian-carving faithful can
sleep at night knowing they've secured a place for themselves in
heaven alongside Mohamed Atta.
One can assume the
director of the Nigerian Department of Tourism isn't too pleased.
Winning the pageant site had been an uphill battle from the beginning.
Some of the more closed-minded Miss World participants had already
begun carping about the upcoming stoning of a Nigerian woman, in
accordance with Islamic sharia law.
The president of
Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, tried to downplay the Muslims' murderous
rampage by cheerfully explaining: "The beauty queens should not feel
that they are the cause of the violence. It could happen at any time
irresponsible journalism is committed against Islam." Well, that's a
relief.
It seems an article in
a Nigerian newspaper had mused that the Prophet Muhammad "would
probably have chosen a wife" from among the Miss World contestants.
This upset the practitioners of the Religion of Peace, whose
polygamous prophet preferred his wives a little younger – one was 6
years old.
They expressed their
displeasure with the article by bludgeoning, stabbing and burning
Christians to death. In one part of Nigeria, enforcers of the Religion
of Peace commanded that Muslims kill Isioma Daniel, the authoress of
the blasphemy. (Overheard at Miss World contest: "Does this make me
look fatwa?")
The New York Times
can't bear to think that their little darlings – angry, violent
Muslims – could be at fault in this melee. That makes no sense because
Islam is a Religion of Peace. So the Times reviewed the facts,
processed it through the PC prism, and spat out the headline:
"Religious Violence in Nigeria Drives Out Miss World Event." According
to the Times, rampaging Muslims pouring out of mosques to kill
Christians and torch churches resulted from "the tinderbox of
religious passions in the country."
Islam is peaceful, but
religion causes violence. Pay no attention to the fact that the most
bloodthirsty cult in the 20th century was an atheistic sect known as
communism. But that was not "true communism," just as Muslim
terrorists are not practicing "true Islam." The ironic thing is,
liberals would hate Muslims who practiced only "true Islam." Without
the terrorism, Muslims would just be another group of "anti-choice"
fanatics.
But these are the good
Muslims – the Mumia Muslims, not the Jerry Falwell Muslims. The police
step in to try to quell violent Muslims and the Times reports this as
"fighting between Christians and Muslims." Ah, the cycle of violence.
It would be as if a
conservative newspaper, with no basis in fact, referred to all
murderers as "environmentalists." Environmentalists Fly Planes Into
World Trade Center; Environmentalists Rape Woman In Central Park.
Winning "Best in Show"
was the Times' headline on an article about the Christian missionary
shot dead in Lebanon by a Muslim: "Killing Underscores Enmity of
Evangelists and Muslims." This is like referring to the enmity between
a woman and her rapist. She hates him, he hates her. It's a cycle of
violence! Except the funny thing about the Christians is, they still
love the Muslims.
The Muslims' main beef
with the Christians was that they "destroy the fighting spirit of the
children, especially of the Palestinian youth, by teaching them not to
fight the Jews, for the Palestinians to forgive the Jews and leave
them Jerusalem." No new data are capable of shaking the Times' faith
that Islam is a religion of peace and Christians, as a general matter,
deserve to be shot.
The Times seemed to
agree the Muslims had a point with the evangelical. In a news
analysis, the Times said the missionaries claimed they were
merely exposing people to Jesus Christ. "But," the Times charged in a
"j'accuse" tone, "a somewhat more direct goal emerges amid the Web
site postings." They were asking for it. (On the bright side, at least
this means the Times is holding the gun innocent in this one
instance.) The Christians were caught red-handed committing
irresponsible Web postings against Islam.
Fortunately, Christians
do not rip out people's entrails in response to irresponsible
journalism committed against Christianity.
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