perfidy

For the week ending 27Sep04

Spotlight Iraq: No doubt about it: terrorists aren't just crazy in the head- they're crazy FOR heads. Last week foot soldiers of the Religion of Peace killed three Iraqi kurds, possibly two Italian women, and at least two Americans by decapitation. I'm just another kafir but I don't remember anything in my Penguin pocket Koran about chopping people's heads off to please God.

And maybe there's something in the water over there, but beheading might not just be for wild-eyed jihadis anymore. Iraq Prime Minister Iyad Allawi reportedly threatened overfed firebrand Muqtada al-Sadr to cease his Najaf-based recalcitrance or lose his own unlovely head. If the PM threatens it, does that imply it's policy?

Spotlight America: Americans don't traditionally take heads off but will kick them in on occasion, as demonstrated by an unnamed attacker at a Toby Keith show in Columbus last week. Seems some wholesome citizen took exception to an "Operation Iraqi Freedom" t shirt worn by a soldier on convalescent leave from Iraq. As he left the show, the bantam weight soldier (5'6, 130) was set upon from behind by a 6', 200 pounder. He never knew what hit him, and has no recollection of having his head kicked in while lying unconscious on the ground. Oh, and fellow upstanding citizens in the vicinity of the fracas did nothing whatsoever to assist, except the girl the young troopy was with, who finally got into the fight. Although he had made progress is recuperating from the injuries that sent him home in the first place, he is now also recovering from a concussion and broken nose.

Note to unknown assailant: funny how you picked a busted-up guy half your mass to ambush, you fucking turd. Pray the cops find you before agents of the Ministry do.

And speaking of people who'd like to cave your head in, a clutch of neo-nazis (not to be confused with the long defunct paleo-nazis) held an anti-war demonstration in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Staged at the Valley Forge memorial (no specific reason is given for that choice of site), the demo decried the ongoing war in Iraq. I had just sort of assumed that white supremacists would be pleased with the opportunity to kill brown people, and therefore be supportive of the war. But in a worldview founded in a well-thumbed copy of the Protocols of the Edlers of Zion and fed by Al-Jazeera, superior white minds oppose the conflict on the grounds that it's "Israel's War". I wouldn't think that neo-nazis are necessarily anti-war; they're just anti-this particular-war.

Maybe they'll show at the next peace rally on the Mall...?