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I want to understand the cultures in the Middle East. I want to get along and not look down on everyone there, but, really, how do you turn a kite festival into a massacre? You’d think with all the killing over there that they’d be looking for ways to get a break from the violence, not new creative ways to turn the most harmless things into a bloodbath.
So, it’s at least eleven dead and over one hundred injured from a kite festival in Pakistan. This wasn’t the first time either, as a BBC article says that nine were killed in the 2004 festival causing kites to be banned for a while in Pakistan. We all know that won’t stop violence, though, as you can remove the kite from a man’s hand but not the murder from his heart. He’ll just get his hands on a pinwheel or a hula hoop and you have another massacre on your hands.
I think that’s enough news from the Middle East for today. Anymore and I might get jaded.
UPDATE:
Before I noted how you could add “Muslims Are Offended” to any headline and it won’t sound out of place, and I think we have something similar here. For any event happening in the Middle East, you can just add a casualty count to the end of headline and no one would notice. E.g. “Children’s Literacy Event Held in Saudi Arabia; 12 Dead”
Well, give it another week and the cowards in our government will ban kites here in the US, just to be on the safe side.
Absolutely right, Son of Bob. And remember: when kites are outlaws, only outlaws will have kites.
Cleary, an area where the West’s so called military “technology” advantage does not exist, eh?
Sure, we got them cruise missles but it is widely acknowledged by most western military experts that “one kite will always get thru…”
Or, we must not allow a KITE Gap!
Stealth Kites!
IMAO reader reads entry titled “Muslims + Kites = Eleven Dead”; Muslims Offended; 42 Dead
I can imagine what the terrorists are saying right now:
“Kites are a symbol of the corruption from the West! Cast down your kites! Death to America! Death to the Great Satan!”
Well, Frank, you know that the actual, literal translation of ‘pinwheel’ in arabic is ‘flying wheel of doom’, don’tcha? ;D
Honestly, I’m ashamed of myself for laughing at this but I can’t help it. It’s tragic and funny at the same time.
“Children’s Literacy Event Held in Saudi Arabia; 12 Dead”
I laughed for 5 minutes at that line. There’s some truth in what you say.
In other news, the Pentagon has begun the development of a new secret weapons system, based on the use of stealthy GPS-guided kites to smite muslims more effectively. Deployed by a B-52 bomberabove a muslim population, a payload of those kites would have an effect similar to several atomic bombs.
Other headline-
Muslim Community Bathes with Anti-Bacterial Soap; No Survivors
Moore Puts ‘Odor Eaters’ in Shoes, Disintigrates After 5 Steps
Pelosi Smiles at 4th Grade Class; 3 Dead, 15 Pemanantly Blinded
Fleming Cracks Midgit Joke at Disney World; Beaten Nearly to Death by Caucasian Woman, 7 Little People
The kid in Frank J.’s graphic is not representative of a muslim youth playing with a kite. This is obvious because he appears happy, and the style of kite has the stringers in the tradition “evil cross” shape.
Muslims would never fly kites that look like christian symbols. Heck, Saudi Arabia wants to ban the letter X.
REMEMBER, THESE ARE PEOPLE WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
An American flies a kite and discovers the nature of lightning, eventually leading to the lightning rod, a device that has saved countless homes.
A Pakistani flies a kite and discovers a new way to cut someone’s throat.
Maybe the Taliban knew what they were doing when they banned kites…
“Moore Puts ‘Odor Eaters’ in Shoes, Disintigrates After 5 Steps”
Did you mean that Moore disintegrated, or more likely the Odor Eaters disentegrated?
Hmmmmmm…