Letter to Angry Muslims

Please stop killing innocent people.  Then again, maybe you shouldn’t stop.  By killing innocent people, you Muslims are providing a textbook example of why religion is deleterious to your health.  So, maybe I should thank you for helping to prove my point – religion kills! 

To recap: A whacked-out Christian fundamentalist posing as a whacked-out Jew made a distasteful movie mocking the Islamic prophet Mohammad.  Then you super whacked-out Muslim fundamentalists took offense and decided to escalate your war against the United States, and actually started killing Americans!  Now you, along with most other theists, are blaming the crazy Christian fundamentalist and the United States, for all the violence.  Really?  It doesn’t matter if the movie is in poor taste or not.  The movie itself is irrelevant.  It’s just a movie!  When I saw The Passion of Christ it made me sick.  It was the most distasteful B.S. I had ever seen.  All the Jews should have gone out and killed Mel Gibson for making that piece of crap.  But they didn’t.  It was just a movie. 

You say that Islam is a peaceful religion.  I am so sick and tired of Islamic apologists saying that.  It is not peaceful to slaughter innocent people because you don’t like a movie, cartoon, book, or anything that may be offensive to your crazy myopic reality-phobic worldview.  All religions are silly and all religions can and should be mocked.  You don’t like it, too bad.  Grow up!  What’s the matter?  Your centuries-old religious dogma can’t survive a little fun by a harmless movie? 

The murders you Muslims committed this past week in the name the “peaceful religion’s peaceful prophet” need to be answered with swift and, if necessary, deadly force.  The murder of innocents never “okay.”  And just to clarify, I’m not suggesting that the United States declare war on Libya or Egypt, or any other Muslim country.  The Libyan and Egyptian governments did not attack the embassy or commit murder.  Those acts were carried out by you, the Muslim fundies; the same Muslim fundies that too many people here in the United States back down and actually defend.  We need to put an end to this over-sensitive politically correct garbage.  Freedom of speech means that the people, all people, even the whacked-out Christian fundamentalist nut-jobs, have a right to make a movie mocking the super whacked-out Muslim fundamentalist s nut-jobs’ prophet.  People need to chill. 

To all you semi-rational theists, think about this: Imagine going out and killing someone just because you’re upset at something that happened across the world that had absolutely nothing what-so-ever to do with the person you just killed.  What would that make you?  It would make you a murderer.  And murderers need to be punished.  So do these terrorists.  Stop apologizing for criminals and terrorists, and saying we need to respect their different world views.  Personally I hate Christian fundies as much as I hate Muslim fundies; and I’m not trying to defend the silly movie, but technically the movie isn’t illegal – or even hostile.  It’s just a movie.  We don’t need to kill people over it. 

I thank Darwin that none of my fellow atheists go on killing sprees in the name of reason.  Because if they eliminated all the unreasonable people, there wouldn’t be a whole lot people left.