SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo’s editorial broadcast at 6.10 am and 8.10 am on Radio Pacific, Monday August 13, 2007.

Today marks the beginning in this country of Islam Awareness Week. I’ve been doing my bit. A couple of weeks back in my regular Salient column I referred to Islam as a stupid, stinking superstition, which it is, and explained why.A spokesman for the superstition then wrote to Salient:

“Have you not learnt that Muslims do not take very kindly to deliberately injurious and unfair representations of their religion? How do you think they would react to Islam being reduced to a stinking, stupid superstition? … It is counterproductive to allow for such uneducated, hateful discourse.”

As I say in today’s Salient:

“Whoa! Can’t you just hear the scimitars being sharpened? Can’t you just see the writing on the placards, same as in London: ‘To hell with freedom of speech!’ ‘Death to those who insult Islam!’ And note the unmistakable subtext to Salient—’Close Perigo down!’
 
“Not once does either of the apologists even pretend to address the substance of my article. Not once does he even pretend to defend the tenets of his stinking, stupid superstition, or Sharia, or Jihad. Most tellingly, not once does he even pretend to condemn the beheaders, the car-bombers, the suicide pilots or any other variant of stupid, stinking, superstitious terrorist in his ranks.
 
“There are well over a billion people in the world now in thrall to this barbarous superstition, and, as noted previously, it is the world’s fastest-growing throwback to the theological ooze. Just imagine if all these folk were committed to enlightened secularism, reason and freedom! What a different world it would be! Instead, they genuflect five times a day to a non-existent god and a pedophile prophet, and surrender their independent judgement to the dictates of bloodthirsty, lice-ridden old mullahs for whom soap and toothpaste are western bourgeois decadences.

“Let the local Muslims renounce and denounce terrorism, Jihad and Sharia Law, loudly and unambiguously. Let them pledge respect for the rights of non-Muslims to practise their religion, or no religion (like me). I grant them that right; let them show that they reciprocate. If we’re going to have some sort of touchy-feely Kumbaya week, let’s all get together, hold hands, and say in unison, ‘I disagree with what you say, but defend to the death your right to say it.’

“That’s worth dedicating a week to!”

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