Some folks just don't get that we are at war because we suffered an unprovoked attack by Islamofascists on 9/11. Some of these are voicing complaints about a float in the Fourth of July parade in Chesterton, Indiana.

A Fourth of July parade float depicting a shackled, bloodied Osama bin Laden has divided some residents between those praising the display as patriotic and others who see it as un-American.

The float, which won the prize for most patriotic unit in the northwestern Indiana town's parade, featured a man dressed as Uncle Sam holding a leash that bound the hands of a bearded man in a robe and turban. The robe was splattered with fake blood because it was a leftover Halloween costume, said Penny Kozinski of Supporters of the Military, which sponsored the display.

The group intended to use the entry to publicize its mission of sending care packages to troops overseas.

"We were just showing we were capturing the bad guys," Kozinski said. "We're going to catch the bad guys and then our guys can come home."

Kozinski's husband, David, is in Iraq with the Indiana National Guard, and her son Micheal, a Marine, is scheduled to depart for a third tour in Iraq this month.

Chesterton resident Kathy McMahan, however, said she was bothered by the float.

"If the Founding Fathers saw that, they'd freak out," she said. "It was just hate, pure and simple."

Oh dear -- we can't hate Osama! That - that - that's unAmerican! We're supposed to love the guy who sent suicide jihadists to hijack planes and murder Americans ina spectacular attack. We can't feel anything other than love for the man who has been waging war on the US for a decade. And we certainly shouldn't be angry at the man whose minions are killing our soldiers in Iraq and innocent civilians today in London! That would be so wrong! Snivel! Snivel!

Sorry folks, I don't think the float was specific enough. A batteredOsama on a leash? Fine with me -- but let's have him being sodomized by a pig. Better yet, let's make sure it is a pig with the Koranic verses supporting jihad written on its side in both English and Arabic. Let's make it clear that his warped Islamism is held in contempt in the United States by every loyal American, of every faith -- and that anyone offended by that is clearly on the side of the terrorists.

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1 Don't you suppose that scrawling verses from the Koran on a pig would be offensive to loyal Americans who are Muslims? Just curious.

Posted by: Cameron at Thu Jul 7 13:26:47 2005 (TAp0U)

2 No -- because they are the verses that Osama has desecrated by using them to justify his attacks on the US. Those who are loyal will gladly repudiate them.

If I were out to offend Muslims, I would have suggested that the pig be made of papier-mache using the pages of Korans. Instead I suggest treating with contempt what is already soiled by the Islamist terrorists, and leaving the rest of the Koran alone.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Thu Jul 7 14:09:11 2005 (w9muW)

3 But surely it's the words of the Koran that Muslims care most about, not the physical pages. As a Christian, I can't imagine that if someone desecrated any Bible, I could acccept the explanation that someone else desecrated it first.

Posted by: Cameron at Thu Jul 7 14:32:28 2005 (TAp0U)

4 And your position on government funding of Serrano's "Piss Christ" was...?

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Thu Jul 7 15:35:44 2005 (w9muW)

5 I don't, on the whole, favor government funding of artistic work, for various reasons, and I try not to expend too much energy on ridiculous people like Serrano. That said, the fact that someone whom I don't respect (Serrano) has done something reprehensible surely doesn't justify my doing the same thing to someone else. His guilt does not mitigate my own, I think.

Posted by: Cameron at Thu Jul 7 15:48:29 2005 (TAp0U)

6 I think in this scenario, we have to ask ourselves, What Would Jesus Do?

Posted by: at Sat Jul 9 14:04:58 2005 (vfZM5)

7 Among other things, I think he would sign his name to his comment.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sat Jul 9 14:15:42 2005 (O8Joo)

8 Agreed on that point.

Posted by: Cameron at Sat Jul 9 16:48:03 2005 (TAp0U)

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