the well-tempered terrorist
While it's debatable whether there is no God greater than Allah, there's no question that there is no God with greater anger-management problems. I've read parts of the Koran, and that is one PISSED-OFF deity. Sure, he's "beneficent, merciful"—unless you don't fall to the ground and worship him five times a day, in which case he'll turn you into a shit stain on the desert sand.
But in the time which has passed after the big 9/11 hootenanny, I'm impressed with the restraint and decorum shown by Allah's most fanatical followers. While US forces have gone over there and subsumed virtually the entire Middle Eastern land mass, there hasn't been a peep of retaliation. We blow the shit out of Afghanistan ... nothing. We topple the Iraqi government ... nothing. Bush is revealed to have lied about his motives ... nothing. Code Red, Orange, and Blue Balls ... nothing.
Those camel jockeys must be taking some Islamic version of the "Cage Your Rage" classes they taught me in the pokey.
