Marines ban farting to avoid offending Muslims

There are so many weird aspects of this story. Don't these Marines have mothers, or someone in their lives who told them as children that audible passing of gas was offensive? And the high command has to tell them to cut it out because it offends Afghans, as if such a reaction were different from that of any normal person? And unfortunately, the friendly-fire jihad attacks by Afghans that regularly punctuate the working relationship between U.S. and Afghan troops are not going to be ended by this small gesture in "trust building." "For Marines in Afghanistan: be careful where you fart," by Gina Cavallaro in Military Times, August 23 (thanks to David):

Marine Corps Times is a family newspaper and we only rarely have offensive language in our stories.

But this week the word “fart” appears in a story I wrote about the importance of trust between Marines and the Afghan national army soldiers they work with.

I didn’t want to write this little blog entry about farts. It’s not even on my beat. But my colleague Dan Lamothe, whose byline you have seen here quite often, shamed me into it.

“You owe it to all Marines,” he told me.

So here’s the news: audible farting has been banned for some Marines downrange because it offends the Afghans.

I know there are many things in the Afghan culture that don’t seem normal to Americans and it’s hard to spend seven months working in someone else’s back yard. Still, the Marines I saw downrange are doing a pretty good job at trying to do the right thing around the Afghans.

They’re not supposed to cuss because it could be misunderstood (that one goes out the window a lot). And they stay away from talking about politics, religion or girls because those topics could escalate into major disagreements (they can’t communicate anyway because of the language barrier).

But farting? That’s practically a sport. Ok, it’s not soccer, but a good contest could open the door for cross-cultural exchanges, jokes and other gallows humor....

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Islam was responsible for the science behind farting. Satan causes farting to disrupt prayers to allah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS_ldpU2wiI

Please help raise money to send beans to our troops in Afghanistan!

Here are these Marines putting their lives at risk for these miserable superstitious and treacherous little Dark Age savages who would as soon sell them out to the Taliban as look at them, and they have the nerve to complain about... farting?!?

"Do the right thing around Afghans": Turn the entire neighborhood into the campfire scene from "Blazing Saddles"!

Banning farting....? OK, when you feel a fart 'cooking', pull one bumcheek to the side, reach for your cigarette lighter and whoosh! -light up! Hours of harmless fun! :)

This game will also help to flush out Taliban who are dressed as Afghan soldiers and who have explosives secreted in their ass. Refusal to take part in this harmless past-time will immediately raise suspicions.

It certainly gives new meaning to the saying "Turn the other cheek!"

Ima

If I were in charge of the marines menu I'd serve:

baked beans, coleslaw, bagels and beer! Dinner time guaranteed to be a gas!

Buraq - the lighter thing - back in the day we called it a "blue angel"

'Don't these Marines have mothers, or someone in their lives who told them as children that audible passing of gas was offensive?'

Offensive ? Really ? Since when ?

:-)

Muhammad believed that Satan passes wind with noise !!!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/07/satanic-fart.html

Why stop there with farting? You do know that U.S. soldiers breathing oxygen and walking on dirt around them offends Muslims too, right?

Since Muslims are so offended by the presence of U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, let's withdraw all soldiers and military assets from all Muslim countries and let them fight their own damned battles.

Now wait just a minute here. Every religious person has the rat to not be offended, even Moslems.

*** Bukhari Vol 1 Bk 11 Nbr 582 ***

Mohammed said, "When the Adhan is pronounced Satan takes to his heels and passes wind with noise during his flight in order not to hear the Adhan.

The Adhan is, of course, the Moslem call to prayer. So the U.S. Marine commanders were right: an open fart in front of a Moslem is tantamount to an insult to Moslem prayer and, thereby, to the Archangel Gabriel, the Holy Prophet Mohammed, and even Allah himself.

We're over there to bring democracy to Dar al-Islam. I don't see how letting Marines fart on the Moslem way of life can help in that noble endeavor.

*** 33:21 ***

So the audible fart ban is good. Having said that, an SBD here and there wouldn't keel anybody.


The March 19–May 1, 2003, invasion of Iraq was a partial mistake. Foreign forces entered and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations.

A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. But, still in the powdery sand desert of Iraq is an un-asked question: …

Did or have the people who went to battle Sadam Hussein learnt anything important from the gamble?

The answer is: YES!

The Western World has by that venture learnt first hand, that Islam is as incompatible to contemporary civilization as oil is to fresh water.

The Media, like some of us from the part of the World where this un-mix ability is not news, know.
The Media’s crime is that they refused to tell.

Gosh. I guess no one's heard all those musselmen prostrating in mosques. There's farts galore in bending down to the ritualistic moon time prayers of the black meteor called qaaba all around the world!!

I know a little 3 year old who calls this activity a bottom burp.Pretty well describes the originator of such an order.Talking out of their you know what....

Oh come ON! You must be pulling my leg...or is it my finger? I can't wait for our troops to get the hell out of that hellhole, and every other middle east country. All they do is drag you into their perpetual life of war.

Imagine my amusement reading this article as I enjoy my carnitas taco plate special!

I've been spending my weekends trying to do things that are offensive to islam, namely grilling pork and drinking beer. I guess now I have a third activity I can include.

Jihad must be wiped out by any Beans necessary.

No doubt about it, it’s a fact Islam make me want to rip a good one.

Good polytheists that they were, the Romans had a god for everything. And one would think that a people who had such a large and precise vocabulary for all things bawdy would have named the god of gas; but such a god was more mythical than real.

Though Crepitus had no temple, he has been hard at work since ancient times contributing to global warming.

Here is a quote from Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary.

La déesse des tétons, dea Rumilia; la déesse de l’action du mariage, dea Pertunda; le dieu de la chaise percée, deus Stercutius; le dieu Pet, deus Crepitus, ne sont pas assurément bien vénérables. Ces puérilités, l’amusement des vieilles et des enfants de Rome, servent seulement à prouver que le mot deus avait des acceptions bien différentes. Il est sûr que deus Crepitus, le dieu Pet, ne donnait pas la même idée que deus divum et hominum sator, la source des dieux et des hommes.

Since this is a family site, I won't translate the whole passage, but Voltaire understood that Crepitus was a very unlikely god since Roman religion was serious and severe.

Voltaire says, "these childish things (puérilités), the amusements of the old and the young of Rome, show only that the word god has many meanings. It's certain that Crepitus, the god of flatulence, was not the same idea as deus divum and hominum sator - the source of gods and men."

Crepitus, as a noun, is not quite the word in Latin for fart. Peditum (peditum-i) is the noun, pedere is the verb, whence the French get the word, pet, as in the frenchified Monty Python taunt, Je pete a votre direction...

Pedere, to fart, would have principal parts like this; pedo, pedere, pepedi, peditum, with the imperatives as, pede, pedite, and so on.

Well what does this mean for the Marines? Nothing really, except that for Afghanistan they ought to have a temporary sub-motto to Semper Fidelis, just to defend freedom a little.

Something like - Pede Audacter(sg) Pedite Audacter(pl) - Fart Boldly; or simply, Pedimus.

(Pendantic, I know, but,... what's Latin class for?)

Yours is the best sentence in the thread. Good one!

(BTW, I've enjoyed your drawings and I'll try to visit your Web Site more often.)

Marines ban farting to avoid offending Muslims
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Oh, good God.

Let's see—here are some things *I* find offensive: forced wearing of the Burqa, murdering apostates, using the soccer stadium nice Infidels built for you for public amputations and executions, cutting the ears and noses off "disobedient" wives, and stoning women to death in the streets.

Where does 'intentional, audible farting' fall in my view of "offenses"? Somewhere around playing music kinda loud and using your car horn when it is not really necessary–in other words, things that are mildly inconsiderate and a bit immature.

That many Muslims are fine with the barbarities enumerated above, but terribly offended by Infidels' farting, shows how f*cked up they are.

We should do *nothing* to enable this idiocy. It's just another stricture on Kaffirs, and more craven dhimmitude on our part.

this will explain the reason why........worth the watch

http://youtu.be/h_LO5T06H6E

Classicus wrote:

Though Crepitus had no temple, he has been hard at work since ancient times contributing to global warming.
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"Though Crepitus had no temple"...I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your sense of humor, Classicus!

I rather imagine Crepitus as companion to Cloacus, the Roman god of—ahem—sewers. He likely had no temple either, beyond the rather impressive Cloaca Maximus, the great sewer system of ancient Rome.

More:

Crepitus, as a noun, is not quite the word in Latin for fart. Peditum (peditum-i) is the noun, pedere is the verb, whence the French get the word, pet, as in the frenchified Monty Python taunt, Je pete a votre direction...
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Classicus, perhaps you are familiar with one of the most unlikely entertainment sensations of all time, Le Pétomane—who was the toast of Paris during the Belle Époque. He played for many years at the prestigious Moulin Rouge. His audience included Edward, Prince of Wales, King Leopold II of Belgium and Sigmund Freud.

Yes, Le Pétomane was a professional flatulist, whose act consisted of farting popular tunes, including "La Marseillaise", producing sound effects such as cannon fire and thunderstorms, and blowing out a candle from some distance.

Entertainment featuring farting might seem a bit questionable, but compared to watching amputations and stonings for laughs, it seems a downright refined pursuit.

And far from being a crude man, Le Pétomane was actually a very sensitive fellow who abhorred cruelty.

Incidentally, Le Pétomane discovered his talent while serving as a young man in the French army while horsing around with his mates. Perhaps there is, somewhere in the US Marine Corps, a new Pétomane whose talents are being stifled by this ban...

Maybe Obama will bring our non- flatulent troops home in time to dedicate the NY mosque.
As opposed to our gasier men who are already home due to blown off body parts and whom get to experience our governments disrespect and dishonor to them by enabling mosques and sharia to invade the U.S.

So what crime will these mad methane marauders be charged with? Will they receive dishonorable discharges for bodily functions that offend Allah and the enemy?

The Art of Fighting Without Farting

Marines need to go into stealth mode when farting then. The silent but violent type are more deadly in any case.

My response: "The fArt of War?" http://bit.ly/pxk5hS

Audible farting is considered rude in western culture too. I certainly would try not to do it while at a coctail party.

This was probably just a reminder that normal barracks behavior is not appropriate in front of civilians.

I doubt a Marine would intentionally fart loudly while attending a dress funciton.

It won't mean a thing until a unit can perform in unison The Battle Hymn of the Republic by farting. Now that would be a good duty for the Marines.

Bosch Fawstin wrote:

My response: "The fArt of War?" http://bit.ly/pxk5hS
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Probably the *only* time I've been just as glad that that you didn't accompany your piece with a full illustration, Bosch...

Just how in the world is the military going to enforce this nonsense? I'd like to know the identity of the individual who issued this to our marines.

" Just how in the world is the military going to enforce this nonsense ? ".

I suppose that a vial of " Bean - O ", will be issued to each soldier, when they receive their weapons and field packs.

Standard equipment, you know ?

Thanks, gravenimage, I'll leave that to a fArtist :)

I have long avoiding farting in the presence of Muslims, so as not to cause offense.....to the fart.

Please, friends,
Do not write Europe off yet.
There is not only western Europe, Europe governed by self-hating elderly leftists revolutionaries, folks who never grew up and had not noticed that their "revolution" have become establishment now, formed by the most silly and ridiculous pseudo-elites ever; Europe whose native population consists of pepople who partly resigned, partly are corrupted and hence selectively blind, and these two parts viscerally hate the small pockets of Resistence poping up there and there.

There is another Europe, East-Central one, those "new EU countries" We still have very low presence of muslims, but we see what has happened in the West. We watch it in shock, as we loved the West, which was a beacon of freedom for us for decades.
But we are optimistic. Ordinary folks, indluding young generation, seem to understand islamic both totalitarism nd PCMC foolishness (in pools, pro-PCMC issues never get over 20%). We now have freedom of speach undreamed of in countries such as Britain. And we will stand fast!

At the end, we will be glad to form the other hand of pincers liberating old Europe.

Was that one of the 36 Strategems of the Art of War by
Suntzi ?

'Don't these Marines have mothers, or someone in their lives who told them as children that audible passing of gas was offensive?'

Dearest Robert,
you are obviously a civilized, sophisticated and cultured man. I'm reasonably certain you have never had to eat an MRE, much less subsist on them for days at a time. You have never had to suffer the intestinal insults contained in those brown plastic packages. In military circles, it is considered sufficient if one simply places themselves downwind of the group unless all those present are equipped with chemical mask and other protective gear. Some severe outbreaks might require a politely hollered warning of "BUNKER! BUNKER! BUNKER!"

Farts are also known as "the trumpet of exertion", and the Marines never half-step at anything. In fact, of the 5 branches of military service, I would have to say that the Marines are probably more entitled to fart than any other service. The Army would come in 2nd, and it would be a tie between the Air Force and Coast Guard as to which of them would have the least justification for farting.

I think that the Marines should be extremely diligent in reporting every infestation of Barking Spiders through the chain of command. The brass have made this silly rule, let the brass figure out how to get rid of it.

Whopee. What's all this bollox about ?

Holy Crap! The cushion's wet. Might've sheet.

"Love is the fart Of every heart: It pains a man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose. "
— John Suckling

Afgan Government Requests Marines' Gas as an Aid in War
Marines test new anti-ballistic system to be launched against incoming enemy ground attacks. The Marines are willing to help and have named the the system the Hyper Velocity Gas/Solids (HVS) System.

Afgans Blast US Marines With Complaint
Afgans accuse Marines of secretly using the Hyper Velocity Gas System in locations near their Mosques. They say it is a violation of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

Afgans Implement New Water Saving Measure
Marines help once again by complying with the Afgan City Council request to shit on the latrine walls, no need to flush.

OK, now I'm going too far. Our Marines nee a laugh.

Our Marines need a laugh.

Makes me wish I could afford satellite radio. Howard Stern would be having a field day with this story. The marines need to have a CONTEST.

So does Islam also ban burping? Don't tell their babies!

First-rate, Absolutely, Resplendent, Thread.

The Afghans are jealous...the Marines farts smell better than theirs...

So farting is offensive to those who wipe their butts with their hand?

Has everyone here heard Spike Jones' great satirical WWII song Der Fuehrer's Face?

"We heil heil right in der fueher's face. Not to love der fuehrer is a great disgrace. So we heil heil right in der fuehrer's face...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlFBSRrSR0

If you recall, "heil" is replaced with loud, wet 'raspberries". Personally, I believe this is the way we should show 'respect' to Islam, as well...

The poor little thin skinned darlings! This one's for them.

Jurassic Fart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-PlXJdkDE&feature=related

Well, I never! I am shocked at all of youses behaviour!! I would NEVER stoop so low.

And for an encore:

Jurassic Fart 2 the sequel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51T6Y3qIlis&feature=related

Gotta love that pig!

Brilliant ! So many funny and clever comments here - most enjoyable. In my family, we call it 'trumping' - as in, 'whoops ! Granny just trumped ! '

I *adore* that pig !

Alright - this is too much - PC has gone over even their bounds! Oh my goodness...I just farted - HELP! - send in the Marines...

What do you expect? Paris Island is now commanded by a woman. And all the other services have been made "co-ed."

We may behead you, but don't you dare fart in my presence?This reminds me of Billy Connolly telling the story of Fred & Rosemary West. Billy found out the British couple disapproved of him because of the bad language in his shows. Billy had a big smile on his face & said: "Fred & Rosemary West can't stand me because of my bad language...you've got dead bodies buried in your backyard but you don't like me because I say the f word??? Ha Ha".

If the crazy Muslims think farting is a problem then they should know that, contrary to the Koran's humorous ignorance, the world is not flat with the sun orbiting it, and that anyone, including Muslims, that uses any toilet in the Americas is crapping in the general direction of Mecca ( especially South Americans). All South Pacific peoples crap directly at the Kaaba.
With the absurd Muslim mind in mind perhaps one shouldn't point all this out since many muftis, should they ever grasp basic astronomy, may urge Jihad against the entire South Pacific population. Sorry south Pacific peoples, but I think the crazy Muslims make be coming after your ass.

The thing that pisses me off is that more and more Americans and Christians are taking the side of the muslims, being misled as sheep to a slaughter, just to keep from offending them. Not to offend muslims, yea right, but we need a National Fart day followed by a National quran Burning Day. But it seems like anything you do pisses a muslim off so I say just do it more. By the way, have you ever wondered why a praying muslim sticks his arse in the air and a Christian when praying is looking up at their god? I'd tell you but it might offend a muslim.

What you certainly don't want is anally retentive marines!
Farting is about all the average muzzie is any good at - is the US scared of showing them up as amateurs? - just remember one of the Christian Faith's principal gospels : Wherever you be, let your wind go free - in Church or Chapel, let it rattle!

OK. No farting out loud. But it is still culturally acceptable to scratch your privates, pick your nose, and spit. No problem.

NativeSOBdhimmi wrote:

Wow sorry graven image. If i had read your post I would not have posted. Seems we are on the same track, amazing!!
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No problem, NativeSOBdhimmi—great minds think alike!

If I did stoop that low I would be adding to the belly wind symphony coming from the five times a day stupid stoopers!

Loved that one.

''Where ere ye be, let your wind gang free, for keepin' it in was the death of me.''

Rabbie Burns.

A bishop came to the court of Elizabeth 1st, to pay his respects, and give the Queen a present. As he bowed to the Queen, to his humiliation, he 'loosed a fart.'

He was so horrified and embarrassed, he left in haste, and didn't return for some years. When he next came into the presence of the Queen, the first thing she said to him was, ''My Lord, I had forgot the fart.''

Excellent Classicus - could that mean, by extension, that StPeter may have been the patron Saint of farts?
I bet your post has got the muslins all confused!

Combining Fart and Quran Burning into one day could become a treasured national holiday. Like fireworks on the Fourth, the immolation of the aforementioned "book" would be the climax of the festivities accompanied by the official "lighting of book" by the streams of combustible gas emitting from the posteriors of millions of patriotic Americans. Another great honor would be afforded to the official "Ignitors" holding official fire place lighters positioned behind the official "Expellers". Strategically placed microphones would capture the emitted sounds accompanied by cheers and martial music by great orchestras or military bands.

You really are one of the most well read posters on JW. I thought only very elderly French people knew about, or remembered Le Pétomane. My French grandparents were born in the closing years of the Belle Epoque and were young teenagers at the outbreak of the First World War. My grandmother, born in Paris, did occasionally mention Le Pétomane, but I don't remember now if she ever said that she saw him perform. She would have been young if she had seen him; she was thirteen when the war began and by that time, Le Pétomane was off the stage.

Especially after the demise of the Republic, the Romans used gladiators as entertainment; believing, wrongly, that the harsh spectacle would inure Romans to the hard realities of defending the empire. (A 19th Century painting depicting gladitorial combat is the famous Pollice Verso 1872, by Jean-Léon Gérome. I'm sure you know that one.)

As bad as the Romans were, the Saudis, and the Taliban in particular, are even worse. With them, the spectacle of enforcing Sharia law in not done along the Aeschylean idea that the offender should "suffer and learn," but to avenge the honor of a tyrant-god. The spectacle is for moral instruction of the spectators. Hideous!

Because I have a family member serving in Afghanistan, I received an e-mail today about the Marine order there. The e-mail gave a link to another Web Site, so I came back to this thread to compare the two stories. My, how this story has staying (and staining) power!

A long time ago, linguists quashed the idea that the sound of a word has anything to do with what the word means. Poets have had long faces ever since.

Still, who can't help noticing the funny relationship between words and sounds, all those p and f sounds. Peter and péter are Greek and French words respectively. But Peter (petros) means "stone" or "rock." The Greek verb for farting is perdomai. Unfortunately, Greek verbs are really complicated and to go into the derivation of that verb would be a long tedious trip through Liddell and Scott.

St. Peter wouldn't be the saint of farts. I don't know who that saint is. But if farts become stones, after a fashion, then we're talking about something else. A fart transformed is a turd; and a turd, in Latin, is in words like these; merda, excreta, stercus, even faex, or the more euphemistic, caenum.

Of course, we can't have nouns without verbs and the first verb that comes to mind for the previous nouns is caco/cacare - the act of producing those nouns. This Latin verb is intransitive, so it needs no object, but, to let it go unaccompanied seems a shame, so, just for fun why not use the noun, Islamismus? Thus we can have the crude sentence (because the verb comes first), caco supra Islamismo. Look out below. No translations needed. I do hate Islam so. I don't think any Muslims will confused about that one.

A couple of closing thoughts. The Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote the play, Archarnenses in which a character called Dicaeopolis complained about the Peloponnesian War. He was tired of the war. (And so are we.) Here is a quote from the play where the word perdomai appears. The translation is by Anonymous and is on the Perseus Web Site.

As for myself, I do not fail to come here before all the rest, and now, finding myself alone, I groan, yawn, stretch, break wind, and know not what to do; I make sketches in the dust, pull out my loose hairs, muse, think of my fields, long for peace,...

I can imagine the young marines thinking the same thing. Sick of being in Afghanistan, who can blame them for wanting out if they can see plainly that the Afghans are not grateful? Farting is a good comment upon the lot. Fart like a hurricane I say.




Classicus wrote:

My grandmother, born in Paris, did occasionally mention Le Pétomane...
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OK, *now* I'm impressed. :)

This poster featuring the great master is the only major non-photographic image that I'm aware of—if only he'd been captured by Toulouse Lautrec or some other great post-Impressionist. Alas!

http://img.wonderhowto.com/images/gfx/gallery/634261992082091795.jpg

Le Pétomane's real name was Joseph Pujol—when you take into account the Spanish pronunciation of that name it is possible to indulge in yet more sophomoric humor...

More:

Especially after the demise of the Republic, the Romans used gladiators as entertainment; believing, wrongly, that the harsh spectacle would inure Romans to the hard realities of defending the empire. (A 19th Century painting depicting gladitorial combat is the famous Pollice Verso 1872, by Jean-Léon Gérome. I'm sure you know that one.)
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That I do—"thumbs down" it is. Of course, we are civilized enough now that the first thing that comes to mind when hearing that phrase is film criticism.

Here's a link to the Gérome:

http://03varvara.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/jean-leon-gerome-pollice-verso-thumbs-down-1872-e1276903612870.jpg?w=1200&h=840

The Romans could be brutal and cruel, but they were also civilized and innovative and many of them quite erudite. Certainly, ancient Rome had much more to recommend itself that Islam ever has...

The Romans could be brutal and cruel, but they were also civilized and innovative and many of them quite erudite. Certainly, ancient Rome had much more to recommend itself that Islam ever has...

Erudite. Yes. And I'm sure that neither Cicero, nor Seneca, nor Tacitus wrote prepositions when they meant to use verbs - the way I did in that sentence about Sharia law. (I hate that when that happens.)

That link to Gérome was good. The picture is far larger than any of those in my art history books.

As you say, Rome had far more to recommend itself than Islam ever has. I've often wondered what the visual arts have had to do with making the minds of Westerners. I'm not sure that by themselves, the visual arts make us better people - (the Nazis, many of them, were art collectors) - but I can't help thinking that without those arts, we would be far less than what we are. I would like to believe that we reflect more and are more introspective because of arts like sculpture, painting, drawing, and now, photography, and motion pictures, even if that sounds a bit naive.

Islam lacks the visual arts as well as liturgical music. Having those arts would not really make Islam any less horrible than it already is, but still, Muslims are all the poorer for not having much in the way of art. When Muslims do have any art, it seems to be the remnants of their earlier, non-Islamic heritage.

Here is another thing. I know that Henri Regnault is probably considered one of the hateful Orientalists, but his painting, Execution without Trial (or is the proper title, Execution without Judgement?) 1870, seems to sum up a clear-eyed view of what Islam is - highly abstract, with an Absolutist notion of God (in the opulent gold in the background, perhaps Islam's view of itself ) and yet brutal by the act of the turbaned executioner.

http://beheadedart.com/static/img.jsp?regnault_1

Since are an art historian, you must have some good ideas about how art has formed us. Do you find Regnault's painting valid or do you consider it merely an opinion with an illustration? I can imagine what Edward Said might have said.

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!!

I think the Marines are reacted to the Muslim sign for insult, which is the raising of the feet and showing of the soles of their shoes.

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“Armed with facts and fearlessness, Spencer stands up for Western civilization.”
Michelle Malkin

“Widely read in conservative foreign policy circles.”
New York Times

“Widely read in many quarters in Washington.”
Washington Post

“A canny operative who likely has the inside track on the State Department’s Middle East affairs desk should the tea party win the White House.”
New York Magazine

“A hero of the American right.”
Karen Armstrong

"The leading anti-Islamic intellectual in the United States....The go-to Islam expert for the right wing."
Salon Magazine

“Robert Spencer is an Edward Said turned upside down.”
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz

“One of the nation's most notorious Islamophobes.”
Hamas-linked CAIR

"Geller and Spencer are probably the most important propagandizing Islamophobes in the world. These people's voices speak very loudly — not just here in the United States but overseas."
Heidi Beirach, Southern Poverty Law Center

“Satanic ignoramus.”
Khaleel Mohammed

“The Likud anti-Christ.”
Dar al-Hayat newspaper (Saudi Arabia)

“Zionist Crusader, missionary of hate, counter-Islam consultant.”
Al-Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn, “Azzam the American”



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