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Fascist mustaches

Here's something from one of my favorite blogs, The Bleat (James Lileks is a columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune):

I just saw a video of one of the sermons, carried on prime-time TV in Iraq. Same old same old, with a twist: Usually the text says that the very trees will cry out "there is a Jew behind me, kill him." This video had a new version: "even the stone will say 'a Jew is hiding behind me. Come and cut off his head.'" And then the mullah pulled out a sword. That's the detail you don't get in the transcripts: these men of God are packing heat -- granted, it's medieval-style slicy heat, but heat nonetheless. "And we shall cut off his head!" he shouted, waving the sword. "By Allah, we shall cut it off! Oh Jews! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Jihad for the sake of Allah! Jihad for the sake of Allah!" Playwright Harold Pinter, speaking at last weekend's rally, said "The US is a nation out of control," and "unless we stop it, it will bring barbarism to the entire world." He said America was "a country run by a bunch of criminal lunatics with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug." When Blair shows up in the pulpit cleaving the air with a scimitar, let me know. When US television broadcasts a speech with Billy Graham hosting an Excalibur replica from the Franklin Mint Collection, demanding the decapitation of Muslims, let me know. When George Bush grips the podium and beseeches American rock formations to give up the location of non-Christians so we can slit their throats, and it's carried live on national TV by presidential order, drop me a line. It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache -- and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

Posted by Miguel at 12:20 AM

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