Muslims or Maniacs?

This post is in memory of the 14 girls who lost their lives four years ago in the horrific Mecca school fire incident of 11 March, 2002.

It wasn’t the fire that killed them, it was the misguided, misogynistic Mutawwas of Saudi that did. It was those fucking fundamentalist freaks that are the collective asshole of mankind.

Apparently, the girls’ school in Mecca caught fire. Eyewitnesses reported that several members of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (read Mutawwa) interfered with rescue efforts because the fleeing students were not wearing the proper public attire (abaya and sheyla) for women in Saudi, and because their male relatives were not there to receive them.

So this school burns and the girls burn inside it, and all the fucking Islamists care about is whether or not these girls are wearing proper clothes and whether their male mehram relatives are there or not. What a pretty, pretty picture that paints of Islam, doesn’t it?

Seriously, it’s when things like this happen that I truly feel disgusted and ashamed of my own religion.

It’s been 1400 bloody years. The middle ages are fucking gone. Why can’t these Islamists bloody keep up?

A report prepared by Mecca's Civil Defense Department about the rescue effort at the school noted that mutawwa'in were at the school's main gate and, "intentionally obstructed the efforts to evacuate the girls. This resulted in the increased number of casualties."

The religious police reportedly tried to block the entry of Civil Defense officers into the building. "We told them that the situation was dangerous and it was not the time to discuss religious issues, but they refused and started shouting at us," Arab News quoted Civil Defense officers as saying. "Whenever the girls got out through the main gate, these people forced them to return via another. Instead of extending a helping hand for the rescue work, they were using their hands to beat us," Civil Defense officers were quoted as saying.

The officers also said they saw three people beating girls who had evacuated the school without proper dress. In the end, the department’s officers had to use force to keep the commission’s members away from the area and help the girls get out of the building quickly.

"We told them that the situation was dangerous and it was not the time to discuss religious issues, but they refused and started shouting at us."

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Naif promised that the government would investigate the Makkah school fire tragedy earnestly to bring the culprits to account. He also said that the persons responsible for the incident would be asked to pay blood money to the families of the 14 girls who perished in the school disaster as well as compensations to the injured.

Do you really think that’s enough? Don’t scum like this deserve to be wiped off the face of planet earth, rather than being allowed to stay alive and then go on and spawn future generation of similar fucktards?

If you ask me, Bush should forget about Bin Laden and instead nuke the Mutawwas out.

The Saudi Gazette quoted witnesses as saying that the police - known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - had stopped men who tried to help the girls and warned "it is a sinful to approach them".
The father of one of the dead girls said that the school watchman even refused to open the gates to let the girls out.
"Lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," the Saudi Gazzette concluded.

My mind cannot grasp how anyone claiming to follow the word of Allah can possibly think that letting innocent schoolgirls die is preferable to them coming out with their heads uncovered.

Who knows how many vices we are promoting, how many people we are sending to their deaths by allowing ourselves to be herded into following somebody else’s interpretation of religion. An interpretation that doesn’t make any sense sometimes.

Cover your head. Don’t wear a skirt. Grow a beard. Trim your nails. Don’t befriend the opposite sex. Why? Why?!! Why THE FUCK ANY OF IT?

Whatever happened to any aspect of Islam that doesn’t boil down to sex and sexuality? Whatever happened to valuing life itself? Whatever happened to showing mercy and compassion helping those in need?

And that, my dears, is why I will never cover my head, why I will never give up my French manicures and why … when people tell me how a Muslimah should behave … I will ask them to shove it.

I am sure that the people responsible for the deaths of those schoolgirls have a special corner in hell reserved specially for them. And I am sure that they will have LOTS of company.

I just hope there’s a little broadcast system in heaven where everyone else can watch these self-righteous zealots rot in the misery of their misguided sense of virtue. :)