Shocked and Awed: Iraqi Children Depict "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
"We never see the smoke and the fire, we never smell the blood, we never see the terror in the eyes of the children, whose nightmares will now feature screaming missiles from unseen terrorists, known only as Americans."
--Martin Kelly
Dear American Conservatives,
Thank you for your unparalleled heroism in your latest endeavor. It was not enough for you to cheerlead for a war of aggression and for the various acts of collective punishment, repression, torture, and outright murder committed against Muslims in the past decade; so you thought you could be cute and funny by drawing pictures with the specific intent of offending the same Muslims you endorsed killing in large numbers. How very brave to antagonize the very people whose tormentors you've spent years enabling.
How fitting that a class of Cheeto-encrusted keyboard warriors such as yourselves find yourselves booting up MS-Paint, doodling images of the prophet Muhammad, and then calling yourselves advocates of free speech because of it. The fact is that many of you once demonized anti-war activists as traitors and sometimes even advocated prosecuting them for sedition. Your hero in this current crusade, Geert Wilders, once asserted the "right to religious freedom should not apply to Islam" and openly supports banning the Koran. Now you tell us that we must provoke the people you have been wantonly slaughtering in order to stand up for the First Amendment?
Unsurprisingly, there are many out there who do not buy this. Apparently, it is hard to understand that a group of jingoistic authoritarian warmongers may genuinely care about freedom of speech more than they care about demonizing their latest boogey-man. May I suggest that you kindly take these concerns seriously? Maybe--I dunno--you stop being so eager about invading Muslim countries, bombing Muslim populations, and stealing Muslim land and resources? Perhaps it is the injury more than the insults that is getting Those Damned Muzzies so upset with us?
How about a deal: stop killing and oppressing Muslims and then you can make fun of Islam without being perceived as a bigoted asshole.
Sincerely,
Anyone with a Sense of Human Decency