{"id":185,"date":"2007-02-08T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/this-is-the-end\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T18:24:06","slug":"this-is-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"This is the End of American culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read about those <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/topstories\/local_story_039073538.html\" target=\"_blank\">idiot college students who made the fake beheading video<\/a> out there on Long Island and, yeah,\u00c2\u00a0I thought it was tasteless and insensitive to the families of beheading victims. Until I saw the usual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/longisland\/ny-lipost0208,0,3675967.story?coll=ny-top-headlines\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;outrage&#8221; statements of the Muslim community<\/a>;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s not a prank,&#8221; said Ghazi Khankan of Long Beach, a member of the board of the American Muslim Alliance, which he described as a regional and national group that advocates for Muslim participation in the political process. &#8220;Campuses are for enlightenment and for teaching us to get along, to respect each other, to know how to live together.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny,\u00c2\u00a0I thought college was a place where we learned. I didn&#8217;t realize that it&#8217;s a big social laboratory. Guess\u00c2\u00a0I was wrong. I always figured that college students were accustomed to blowing off steam in unusual ways &#8211; like swallowing goldfish and packing phone booths.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the outraged Muslims can teach those folks who behead and set fire to buses a little about respecting each other instead of focusing on a college prank, for pete&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Habeeb Ahmed, president of the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury, who said he was a C.W. Post alumnus, agreed. &#8220;People are testing the waters again and again, and the Muslim community is always at the receiving end.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Always? Since when? Maybe if <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/2006\/12\/the_faking_imams_pajamas_media.php\" target=\"_blank\">Muslims would stop testing the waters<\/a>, I&#8217;d feel for &#8217;em a bit more. The only ones on the receiving end are those of us who hear and read endless lectures about tolerance from an entire race of intolerant people.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they were this outraged over the news of actual beheadings.<\/p>\n<p>These five students are only guilty of putting the video on YouTube where they&#8217;d get busted for being rambunctous youngsters. If people are going to start losing jobs for being funny, I think it&#8217;s the end of our civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Afterall, who can forget the other comedy team who dared to poke fun at our enemies (it is only our enemies who threaten to behead us, right?);<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/marcuse\/classes\/33d\/33dWImages\/33dImagesPageDesign\/40stoogeshitlernatztyspy450pxh.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read about those idiot college students who made the fake beheading video out there on &hellip; <a title=\"This is the End of American culture\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=185\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is the End of American culture<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}