Lessons of History - Stupidity

Remember the threat of Communism, seems like a faint memory doesn’t it, I never experienced it myself, or perhaps I was just ignorant of it, aren’t we lucky we never had to pay a real price of Communism like with the Nazis. I know many more millions perished at the hands of Communists in the old Russia and China and there was that cold-war thing, but that’s all old news and it was all the way over there we have to move on you know.

I recently read that Edward Crankshaw found the stupidity of the middle ranks of Soviet Officialdom so absolute he had trouble explaining it to people lucky enough never to have encountered it. Who would have thought, all these years later, we would once again share a bit of Edward Crankshaw's plight; just with a different ideology.
Muhammad al-Asaadi, editor-in-chief of the Yemen Observer, was found guilty by a Yemeni court on Wednesday and ordered to pay a fine of half a million riyals ($2,500). He was arrested on February 11, just days after his newspaper had published the cartoons, which originally appeared last September in the Copenhagen daily Jyllands Posten.
So what you ask, that’s old news, by now only foolish liberals and penguins living in Antarctica would believe that militant Islam is tolerant of our western ways. We saw the rioting, closing of embassies, the death threats, the European police services stretched thin doing bodyguard duties for loose-lipped liberal commentators exercising old freedoms of free-speech. What did I expect when an editor in Yemen dared to publish the cartoons, one might make the mistake to think the man has balls, but unfortunately it’s another case of stupidity so absolute it’s hard to explain.

You see it wasn’t a case of, I have the right to free-speech, I’ll publish what I want and you lot can kiss my ass. Al-Asaadi published the cartoons with an ‘X’ over them accompanied by two articles denouncing them. He was trying to explain to us infidel buffoons why they were so offensive, but much to al-Asaadi’s surprise that absolute stupidity we hoped was confined to the old Communists, came and bit him in the ass.

He just found out the hard way, that absolute stupidity is alive and well and not just in today’s western ‘commie-lite’ socialists.

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