In which the pond intolerantly refuses to tolerate the intolerant pretending to be tolerant...

There's something beguiling about Mexican cartoonist Paco Calderón Cartones' cartoon - it reminded the pond of that very nice koan (and more koans here):

Those precious moments, that little surge of sweetness, is why the pond visits the pages of the reptiles each day ... and sure enough ...

Now this sort of modest splash probably doesn't build up things with sufficient style, so here we go, trumpets and drum roll please maestro ...

By golly, that's solid stuff,  and it helps explain why others read the reptile Oz too ...

And so to the main course, Carr certified, a recommendation guaranteed to ensure the pond's deepest enthusiasm, much like the public transport initiatives and infrastructure projects conducted during Carr's reign to leave NSW a richer and more efficient state (what's that you say, the Olympic stadium doesn't drop you at work each day? Well, that's why they invented the 50km walk) ...

Now Maher Mughrabi can look after himself, as can leftists, but really, that's such a stupid opener that the pond thoroughly enjoyed it.

Of course religion isn't a race and theoretically it should have nothing to do with race or ethnicity or nationality.

Somebody forgot to tell the protestants of Tamworth when they abused the pond for being an Irish retard Catholic dog perhaps aligned with frogs ...or the pond's Greek friend for being a wog ...

Another scribbler - the pond can't imagine who - wrote this, and more here:

Hey presto! Without a coherent object, racism is eliminated as a phenomenon!! Let joy be unconfined!

You can't be racist against Italians, because Italians aren't a race, they are a nationality. (This should have been on posters here in the 1950s.) You can't be racist against Jews, for the same reason that you can't be racist against Muslims.

If only it were simply a matter of race as something that does or doesn't exist. But it isn't. Racism is about how we think of ourselves – and others.

Indeed, indeed, and while the pond has no time for Daesh, Saudi Arabia - that thing about women not driving really snarks the pond - and rampant Wahhabism, why is it always that scribblers like Monk routinely quote the likes of Daniel Pipes and ignore the crusaders that have been in their midst for yonks?

Even that fellow Iraq war lover Christopher Hitchens found Pipes a bit rich, suggesting he confused scholarship with propaganda and pursued petty vendettas with scant regard for objectivity, but that didn't stop the sword wielder and Saudi Arabia lover wanting to appoint him to the board of the United States Institute of Peace (Peace is their profession) (wiki here).

It really irritates the pond the way that the crusaders are suddenly on a crusade about Saudi Arabia, as if it wasn't there to be discovered long ago ...

Never mind, on we go with astute, Carr-certified analysis ...

Actually the crux of the matter is that any militant religion poses a direct and deliberate threat to any secular liberal constitution. We must organise our defences and push back on a coherent and principled basis.

Which doesn't lend itself to a kind of confused pick and stick Alan Jones sort of assessment, whereby a pasty Hastie creationist fundamentalist is somehow different to other forms of fundamentalism ... this is after all, a man who gets to vote on gay marriage, school chaplains and funding of fundamentalist religious schools wanting to teach creationism as a different scientific theory ...

However the pond's campaign is unlikely to find much meaningful help from a scribbler who blathers on about regressive leftists, and who fails to mention the other crusaders who were in our midst ... what exactly did Dr Monks do during the war daddy?

Let's hear it from Doug Wead, an Assembly of God evangelist ...

Yes, he's one of them and they knew it, and the two Christian crusaders went off to war and left us with a fine old mess... and now we're only supposed to fear Islamic fundamentalists?

Here's the thing.

You can't send Islamics to the sin bin, and provide an exemption for other religious fundamentalists ...

Nor should you propose that if people don't like your offer of benign tolerance that they should then be smoted and smited with your raging intolerance ...

How is it that they who must bow to your generous and benign tolerance, or be excluded from the benefits of toleration? And what exactly are those benefits, if the main one seems to be to suffer under the yoke of your benign discrimination, abuse and intolerance for refusing the offer of tolerance?

Well the pond is intolerant of all religions on an equal opportunity basis, but it's also intolerant of those who preach intolerance dressed up as if it's some kind of tolerance ...

By golly, that's how confused that Monk has made the pond, but while we're at it, can we also be intolerant of all the religions who intolerantly refuse to allow same sex marriage? Not just the Islamics and Daesh, though they're reprehensible enough, but also the ones that do it with a benign smirk and a cucumber and cheese sandwich, before consigning gays to eternal hellfire ...

And now speaking of peace and harmony throughout the land, surely this will become a cult hit of the first water ... in this version you get to see it twice!!

Is there manna? Is there heaven? Is there a constructive parliament?

While watching, a YouTube ad came up warning of the four stages to a heart attack ... the pond thinks the video got it to the second or third stage ...is Abbott the most shameless politician in living memory or what?