A Red State writer attempts comedy. Which is like watching your cat attempt needlepoint: you're sort of tempted to encourage the behavior, even though you know it won't end happily.
The "joke" is a ponderous fake news story that pretends Christians worldwide are rioting because of James Cameron's documentary about finding the dead Jesus along with his dead mom and his dead broad. (Israeli police suspect druglord involvement.) See, it's funny because... ha, ha, omigod, this is hilarious... Muslims rioted over the cartoons in the Danish newspaper! Silly Muslims, so prone to violence. Us Christians, see, we're civilized, and even though we're really fucking PISSED at Cameron, we're not rioting! See, we're peaceful. Neener. In your face, Muhammad! (Jubilant Christians pour wine over each others' heads, exchange high fives, slap Pat Robertson on ass.)
And so on. The reason the joke fails is not so much that one could point to certain historical instances of Christians Gone Wild were one so inclined, but that if the "joke's" underlying premise were valid -- that Islam is fundamentally and irredeemably premised upon violence -- it renders the whole mission civilatrice in Iraq totally pointless, doesn't it? Unless of course that mission were to be premised on either wholesale conversion or wholesale extermination....
Or both of these at once, perhaps. As in a liberatory occupation. Got to hand it to Red State: they sure do provide fascinating insights into the conservative mindset and why it's led to so many recent spectacular foreign policy triumphs.
(Pictured below: frequent Red State contributor, King Leopold II)
