David Davis
Guess what? Alleged “offence” to the [stricter parts of] the Hindu religion has been given by this:-
If the link is broken by the Torygraph or by threats, I have downloaded it and will reinsert it directly into the post, so don’t worry.
The offence-police clearly are watching minutely, all the detailed activities of what Mao would have called “Wicked capitalists and running-dogs of the Boss Class”. This appeared as a promotional poster in 3 (yes just three) restaurants in Spain.
It’s __always__ always always something in, or done by, “Western” culture, isn’t it, that does the offending.
__Never__ never the other way about. Strange really, since we are such nice, inoffensive, tolerant and accommodating people. Perhaps you had not noticed this, since we are so submissive. We need to locate the source***, therefore, of all these allegations of “offence”.
You can bet your life that if a whatever-it-is-bar or bistro in somewhere-or-other was to depict a devil brandishing items that looked like a Communion-Wafer and a wine-flaggon, as part of some promotion, nobody in the West would object. We take this sort of stuff in our stride: it’s what we’re like – f*** it, we’re too bloody busy anyway, to worry about these trifles.
I should have thought that, Hindus being broadly associated with the Indian Persuasion, were more sensible than to allow themselves to get caught up as yet more innocent catspaws {like the moslems have been suborned already} in the generalised GramscoFabiaNazis’ war. This war is to destroy what matters about Western Civilisation. Like toleration of others’ customs of free speech, humour, and so on.
This war is run, in the main, by really really nasty Westerners, who hold to atavistic, pre-barbaian even, notions about how a human civilisation ought to look and arrange itself. These particular Gramscotrons will not scruple to use as innocent unaware pawns, those groups and religions who take themselves and their vulgates sufficiently seriously to be persuaded that they can be “offended” by what the controlling Gramscotrons point to.
***Very dangerous people, mostly indigenous, that we allow to flourish in our midst.
As libertarians, we are continually offended, 24/7, by the outpourings of socialists and all other varieties of GramscoFabiaNazi murderers, “dear leaders”, “intellectuals”, “educationists”, “social psycholgists”, politicians and the like. But we get over it and move on. All we really do is plan how to remove all barriers to a pfoperly-functioning minimal-statist (or even non-statist if that is what people actually want) civilisation, in which one is free to __say__ or depict anything one pleases. But in which __ nobody__ may employ coercion, threats or force to drive others in an unwilling direction.
Just like some “Hindus” have “driven” Burger King.
It is very common, according to the late Idries Shah (pbuh), for Sufis to be engaged in surprising enterprises, and many that on the face of it have nothing to do with “higher consciousness.” They can indeed be profitably engaged in a variety of conventional business enterprises, so much so that the hallmark of the real Sufi (as opposed the fakers with phoney “Middle Eastern” titles, and the crumby bogus accents to go with them) is their very real normalcy. Many times the first task is to prepare the ground through these mundane activities, for the actual Sufi thought to take hold. Often enough, undue touchiness has to be overcome about irrelevancies before the “real” spirituality can enter in. I only mention this as in the Telegraph article it was added that, earlier, Burger King had had to issue a similar apology, for an advert in Mexico with a midget attired in a toreador suit….
D2, pray accept my deepest apologies for the above fulmination by my ungrateful doeppleganger; and, please see my email to you, tonight.