== Let us kill all the teddy bears = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Note to radical Muslims: I've now named my favorite coffee mug 'Muhammad.' Hope that helps

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/12/05/notes120507.DTL&nl=fix

Here's what I like to do every time I see a throng of frothing religious zombies marching in the streets of Sudan or Pakistan or Colorado Springs or anywhere else in the world, carrying knives and torches and holding festering clots of fear in their hearts as they burn flags or photographs or copies of "The Goblet of Fire" or "The Golden Compass" or that sweet little book about the cute gay penguins in the Central Park Zoo and all screaming for the instant death of someone who dared to suggest that, say, Jesus was actually a liberal pacifist or that L. Ron Hubbard was a nutball hack or that it's perfectly delightful to let sweet little schoolkids name a sweet little teddy bear 'Muhammad.'

I try to remember. No wait, that's not quite right. First, I get past the wave of nausea and sadness, that hot, palpable feeling that we are, still and forever, a baffled and insane and deeply doomed species and the world of man is indeed bleak and hopeless on far too many levels to count.

Yes. Must get past that.

Then I remember. I remember the remaining 1.2 billion Muslims of the world who are also reading about the Great Teddy Bear Blasphemy of 2007 and going oh holy hell no, please, Allah no, not this again, not these inbred fundamentalist jackals making us all look so horribly bad, and why does the media insist on showing such a harsh, fragmented picture of a generally peaceful (albeit overly militant) faith and is there really nothing we can do? ...

[Ian David]

1. If my gardener can be named Jesus and my taxi driver is Muhammad, then why not my teddy bear? n/t

[sam sarrha]

2. i actually seriously considered becoming a Muslim in the early 70's, there was a group of Sufis i

met and really enjoyed.

however as i read more of the Koran, and more about Islam. i discovered WAY TOO MANY back doors that led straight to chaos or to hell itself. i could not accept that some teachings didn't mean what they said.. just too many of the Prophets words weren't teaching peace..

i know the majority of Muslims gloss over those parts as just historical differences or whatever, as do the Christians the Jews in their books and i am glad they can do that. but i view the world relative to the parable of the three jars;

one jar is covered, nothing can be put into it, one jar is cracked, everything put into it leaks out, one one jar is poisoned, everything put into it also becomes poison.

some day soon i hope we all figure this out.. we need to evolve, we need to quit living in the mind set of bronze age goat herding cultures in conflict due to catastrophic climate change.. and start acting like evolved human beings in conflict due to catastrophic climate change ..or we are all screwed

Mohammad had wandered the streets "Channeling" a Deity called Allah for years.. not having much attention paid to him, probably as much as a modern day schitzophrenic... until the weather changed resulting in a protracted drought.. his father was rich and had amassed a great store of grain which Mohamed arranged to dole out to the hungry people of their city.. for a price.. they had to listen to his channeling's of allah.. which is why the koran is all bits and pieces of ramblings.

had it not been for climate change Mohamed would have been lost into the same obscurity of every other street person wandering around haning a conversation with themselves