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February 3, 2006

Hate Week

The International Day of Anger proclaimed by a muslim cleric sounds a lot like Orwell's Hate Week in 1984, observed daily with two minute hate sessions.

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies. And yet the very next instant he was at one with the people about him, and all that was said of Goldstein seemed to him to be true.

1984 - George Orwell(Eric Blair)

Of course, if someone portrays Osama Bin Laden as Christ, we're supposed to just respect their views and not be so culturally ethnocentric. ;)

Update: Now Michelle Malkin has started a Muhammad Cartoon Blogburst.

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Posted by Peenie Wallie on February 3, 2006 at 8:25 AM