perfidy

For anyone not yet ready to pull into the garage, turn on the car, and breathe in the brown cloud of death (off the cuff paraphrase stolen from Richard Jeni) - to push you over the edge, we now have the collected writings of Osama bin Laden: From the November 17, 2005 UK Telegraph: "The world of bin Laden: no drinks, no gambling, no pictures of women". And if the title alone isn't enough to make you turn on the ignition, read just a bit farther, and you'll see:

Osama bin Laden wants the United States to convert to Islam, ditch its constitution, abolish banks, jail homosexuals and sign the Kyoto climate change treaty.

As a lapsed Catholic, I'm generally indifferent to comparative religion, and these "demands" on the part of the increasingly redolent bastard sheep of the bin Laden clan are hardly new. Their inclusion in a "collected words" volume is the only reason they're "news". However, the reminder of the breathtaking stupidity inherent in radical Islam's view of what the world should be, well, almost takes my breath away. And not due to excessive carbon monoxide, either.

On the bright side of the ledger, however, looking at living a life constrained by these and many of the other inane supposed strictures of Islam, I can understand why bin Laden spent so much time tempting, nay, begging for death at the hands of a U.S. Marine. The self-styled head fuckwit among his radical segment of Islamic fuckwits (who knows if it's a small segment? who cares?) must have welcomed death when it came, as I continue to presume it did. (Thus, the increasing redolence.)

The Telegraph article mentions some "horrendous errors" in the initial translations of the book, and alleges they're all fixed now.

So am I the only one who thinks the addition of the Kyoto treaty at the end of the mini-screed attributed to him above is the least bit odd? It fit in there about as well as a declaration of fatwa against the styrofoam-headed guy who plays the lead in the Jack in the Box commercials, fercripesake.