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2007-09-14 Europe
Sweden Did Not Apologize on Behalf of Paper: Envoy
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Posted by Fred 2007-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Global Jihad 

#1 This isn't really Sweden's colletive responsibility, don't we deserve a Saudi 9/11 apOlogy btw
Posted by Boss Craising2882 2007-09-14 03:00||   2007-09-14 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the appropriate apology: "I'm sorry you are offended by this cartoon."
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2007-09-14 07:29||   2007-09-14 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 This was my apology after the Pope Benedict kerfuffle-do-jour. It's short, so I'll put the whole thing in:

So, Pope Benedict’s apology for having the temerity to point out that Islam is kinda, sorta, just a tad bit on the violent and coercive side, and that such coercion is something that Christians do not find logically defensible is not acceptable?

Well, since it was one of those “I’m sorry you were offended by what I said” sort of apologies, yeah, I can see that you have the right to seeth and whine, and burn churches and shoot elderly nuns in the back. So, how about a real apology…

I am so sorry that you lunkheads wouldn’t know a logical theological disputation if it up and bit you on the butt.

I am sorry that large numbers of you are so illiterate that you believe any old load of old shoes that the imam tells you in the Friday sermon.

I am sorry that most of you have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement, and an underdeveloped sense of logic, technological skills, and smell.

I am sorry that a fair number of you want to turn Western Europe right back into the disease ridden, violence plagued, and autocratically ruled hellholes that you crawled out of.

I am sorry that your much-vaunted Caliphate was built, and maintained by a reliance on treachery, war, plunder, and the brutal oppression and economic skinning of various conquered peoples, and that when what had been conquered was squeezed dry, and the march of Islamic armies towards new sources of plunder was halted, it still took a couple of hundred years for it to rot from the inside.

I am sorry that your standing armies can’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag, and that a nation and people you despise hand your own asses to you on a silver platter, every damn time. That must be so depressing for you… try valium.

I am sorry that all you have is a lot of oil, and limitless reserves of resentment. Wait until the oil runs out, my little desert chickadees, and there is no more money to buy western technology, medical treatments, and all those pretty baubles that you can’t build yourself because the education of your best minds (such as they are) is focused on memorizing the Koran!

I am sorry that I have to open the internet pages and read about Australians being blown up in Bali, teachers in Thailand being beheaded, the rape of Scandinavian school girls, the burning of cars in Paris suburbs, Afghan and Iraqi children blown up by car bombs, Spanish and English commuters exploded by bombs in backpacks left on trains, ad nauseum.

I am sorry you can’t just stay in the 7th century and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

OK, is that better, as apologies go? You’re welcome. I live to serve.
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-09-14 08:06|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com]  2007-09-14 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 SgtMom, I am humbled. I bow before the master of apology.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2007-09-14 08:57||   2007-09-14 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 SgtMom that was brilliant. If only the Swedish ambassador was so eloquent...
Posted by treo 2007-09-14 10:05||   2007-09-14 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 "I'm sorry" Sgt. Mom is not our Commander In Chief.
Posted by Besoeker 2007-09-14 10:50||   2007-09-14 10:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Bravo, Sgt. Mom, you go girl!!!
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-14 11:56||   2007-09-14 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 (blushing modestly)
I was on a roll... and besides, I'm a Babylon-5 fan.
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-09-14 15:02|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com]  2007-09-14 15:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Beautiful! From another B5 fan. Have you seen the direct to DVD B5 episodes that came out in July? I enjoyed them.
Posted by Titus Hayes4699 2007-09-14 15:58||   2007-09-14 15:58|| Front Page Top

#10 I haven't, TH... I'm only a poor starving writer!I need to sell another 1,999,980 copies of "To Truckee's Trail" before I can even think of frivolities like buying the B-5 DVD set.
I do have the complete run taped from broadcast TV, which sufficies for now!
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-09-14 16:35|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com]  2007-09-14 16:35|| Front Page Top

#11 

Sorry for the confusion, Sgt. Mom, I meant a new DVD put by the B5 crew, Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales. It has two mini new episodes. Good stuff.
Posted by Titus Hayes4699 2007-09-14 19:35||   2007-09-14 19:35|| Front Page Top

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