Muslims need to get real.

Muslims need to get real - and so does everyone who isn't a Muslim.
In the NY Times today, John L. Allen Jr., Vatican correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter, wrote, "While Saudis contributed tens of millions of dollars to build Europe’s largest mosque in Rome, Christians cannot build churches in Saudi Arabia. Priests in Saudi Arabia cannot leave oil-industry compounds or embassy grounds without fear of reprisals from the mutawa, the religious police."
Fair is fair. While Muslims are always demanding someone apologize for every perceived slight and offense, they apologize for nothing.
Isn't it time for all who aren't Muslims to demand Muslims either shut up or grant the balance of the world the right to live according to their beliefs and customs without fear of being killed?

Muslims offended

Once again, the Muslims are offended. This time it wasn't cartoons that offended them. It was the Pope.
Personally, I don't see where any human has the right to be offended about anything. No one is that holy or that pure. And if they were, they wouldn't be offended because they would realize being offended falls under the sin of pride.
Be that as it may, while I am not offended by the Muslims being offended, I am sick and tired of their constant whining. To be fair, fundamentalist Christians do a lot of whining too - another group constantly complaining about how offended they are about this, that and the other thing.
I think what all this whining is really about is there is a group of people out there who really hate being human. They would like to be pure spirits. To have a body, offends them. Flesh and bone frightens them.
If they were offended by the Pope - accidentally - let me see what I can do intentionally.
In my vampire novel "The Dancing Valkyrie" one of the vampire characters talks about the real Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, who, as she says, prevented the Turks from turning Romania into the Islamic mess they made of Yugoslavia and Albania. For the Romanians, Dracula was and is a hero! It was fear of the Muslim sword that caused many Christians to convert to Islam and create the problem that still exists in that area.
Yes, Christians should be ashamed of the Crusades. But the Muslim world has much to be ashamed of in their past. Pots and kettles shouldn't be calling each other black.

Vampire poem

Just playing with some ideas for my follow-up to my vampire novel: The Dancing Valkyrie.

And God Created Vampires

And God created vampires to serve as a reminder,
Of love undiminished by chaos,
Of love uncorrupted by death.

The liquid red of blood bleeds,
Sucked as the womb sucks sperm,
Combining blood with blood,
Birthing in the imagination of the mind,
The eternal reality of sex.

The eternal reality of God becoming Goddess,
Goddess becoming God,
Making order out of chaos,
Chaos out of order,
Life out of death,
Destroying the virtual reality of the mundane,
In the true reality of the ecstasy of bloody sex.

For in the mind of humans,
Every act of sex is an act of death,
While in the mind of the Divine,
Every death is an act of sex.

Naked as in birth, the body submits to being flesh,
Disrobing the control of mind,
Freeing the spirit to soar,
As the mind dies into pleasure,
And sees the chaos the God and Goddess enjoy,
Not but for a moment,
But for the infinite eternity of an orgasm shared.

Fear

So many examples of fear. Hardly a day, hardly an hour, goes by without hearing the drumbeat of fear.
Safety. We must protect ourselves. Remember 911. Never again. We must fight the terrorist over there or we will have to fight them here.
Just the other day there was an item in the news about a photographer and writer for Fox News who converted to Islam to save their lives and gain release. Nothing was made of this incident. I guess everyone thought - if they thought at all - that the two men made a smart choice. After all, their conversion was a sham. Right?
But if their conversion was a sham to save their lives, then whatever it was they converted from was also a sham.
You got to give credit to the terrorists. Their beliefs may be wacky but they at least have the courage of their convictions.
Question?
How do we fight terrorism if the terrorists have all the courage and we (the terrorized) have none?