2008 November 05 « Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

November 5, 2008

The situation in Nord Kivu

As the world’s leaders comfortably ponder what to do about the situation in the east of the NSDR Congo (Not-so-Democratic Republic) of Congo, hundreds of thousands of people are stuck without access to shelter, clean water, food, and security. Strange that the largest UN mission in the world, MONUC, is already based in the area, and seems incapable of doing anything. Even if they had more realisitic terms of engagement it is hard to see what they can do apart from protecting aid convoys and important installations.

If the world’s leaders wanted to put a stop to events like those unfulding in Nord Kivu they would do well to remember that “General” Laurent Nkunda, the head of the rebels who have supposedly started the problem, does not fight with bows and arrows, but with state-of-the art weaponry supplied by, well, who is supplying the weapons? Shouldn”t such merchants of misery be stopped in their tracks and presented as the pariahs they are? This is unlikely to happen, especially as arms dealers are such generous contributors to the warchests of western politicians.

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November 5, 2008

Somali stoning

Somalia is indeed a sad country, wracked by poverty and religious extremism. Quite recently has emerged the story of a 13 year-old girl who alleged she had been raped. When her father brought her before what passes for the authorities in that lawless country she was accused and convited of adultery and fornication and was sentenced to death by stoning. The girl, crying and begging for her life, was then placed in a hole on a football pitch which was then filled in with earth upto her neck. Fifty men then proceeded to throw large stones at her head. After about a quarter of an hour the authorities sent some nurses who dug her out. They stated that she was still alive, just; so they were ordered to put her back in the hole and replace the earth, until the sentence was fully carried out.

Such barbarism has no place in Islam, but before we start pointing a racist finger at the Islamic faith, let’s admit that such an atrocity could easily happen in the Christian west; instead of stones the hapless victim would be pelted with insinuations and calumny.

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November 5, 2008

Prejudice

I cannot stand people who wrap up their prejudices in sanctimonious cant and then call it virtue. I am a Christian and a sinner. I am also a heterosexual but I cannot abide the way some Christians target people who are homosexuals or lesbians. Unions between homosexuals or lesbians are often marked by life-long fidelity to each other, unlike that marvellous heterosexual institution called marriage. There are times when I feel that I don’t pray to the same God as these people.

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November 5, 2008

Playing around

With Barack Obama’s win, what’s going to happen to all of those golf clubs, especially in the south, who don’t allow black people to play there or become members?

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November 5, 2008

Congratulations Barack Obama

I am delighted that Barack Obama has helped bring the long night of shame which is the Bush presidency to an end.

I cannot help feeling that Lenny Bruce would have been so happy to finally see a nigger in the White House. When Lenny used the word he knew that people would call him a racist, but as he pointed out the word nigger was just that: a word of six letters, with two syllables. The fact that it is offensive is due to racists, supremacists and other wicked people who have loaded it with deprecatory meaning. It’s not a word I particularly like, but it seems quite harmless when compared with those words like wog or black bastard which I have heard used to describe black people here in Cavan.

Monkey-man Biffo of course was quick to doff his cap and offer his congratulations. “Well done your honour. Isn’t it a grand election your honour’s after winnin?” or “Would your honour like some turf dug? Jaysus, there’s no flies on your honour.” etc. I felt his invitation to President-elect Obama to come and spend a holiday here might have been a bit premature, as let’s face it, there are some neighbourhoods especially of the well-healed, as well as Golf Clubs, in provincial towns, who quite frankly still do not aceept no niggers, whom they view in the same way as members of the Travelling Community. If he comes I hope he brings his own security detail with him, for were he to be picked up by some members of An Gardai siochana, it would matter fuck all that he was claiming to be President of the United States, he’d still be viewed in their eyes as yet another black bastard who was no doubt an illegal immigrant. a pagan and a heathen who was probably carrying a host of diseases and who was just looking for an oppportunity to break the law and who was waiting for an opportunity to stick his dirty big black cock up some nice decent Irish girl.

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