While trying to wrap my brain around the New York Times Magazine profiling Pamela Geller, I came across Charles Johnson and Robert Spencer in the Guardian’s Comment is Free. Now, I sometimes delve into the CiF comment sink, because Know Thine Enemy is one of my most stolid rules. And here’s an absolutely stunning example of the idiots that inhabit all comments threads. BBZaph, in an answer to the idiot below:
and there it came … in posting no. 7
MDMAok
I do not know who this Pamela Geller.is. I suspect that anyone who hates Muslims as much as Ms Geller HAS to believe she is a Christian. I suspect many of my Christian friends would be as uncomfortable with her as my Muslim friends are uncomfortable with AQ’s professed adherence to Islam.Actually, she’s Jewish. Not that it matters – you do not have to belong to a specific religion to recognise what is hateful. I am a Christian and I do not “suspect” that my Christian/Muslim/atheist friends would be uncomfortable with her – I know they wouldn’t give her the time of day and would simply dismiss her for what she is.
And the response by MDMAok?
@BBzapf,
just so long as she a) has religion and b) is American my world view will not require changing, but thank you for correcting the diagnosis of her disease.
Note that MDMAok did not read the article in question, took at face value what she read in CiF, and, when given the correct information said that it doesn’t matter; Judaism and Christianity are interchangeable.
The ignorance is appalling. But it totally explains why they shriek so loudly about Israel over there. They’re all effing uninformed idiots who wouldn’t let a fact into their head if it cracked it open for them.