In which the pond discovers the Terrorist's biggest problem: the arm-breaker ...

The pond doesn't much like featuring the arm-breaker. He's a bully and a head-kicker, full of anger issues and unresolved emotional problems, and he lowers the tone ...

But he does provide an impeccable moral guide to the collapse of the Murdochian tabloids, beset with an almost anal fixation on Islamics ...

Of course you won't find the Terrorists running this sort of stuff on other fundamentalist religions who routinely refuse to abandon the fundamentalist parts of their fundamentalist Adam and Eve texts ... in ways which can lead to quite bizarre visual weirdnesses while the producing of complimentary women goes on  ...

Now there's a complimentary woman ...

Of course the way to give the Islamics a hard time is to pretend that other religions have modernised their ancient holy books in ways designed to suit open, pluralistic 21st century societies...

You know, like the way the Catholics have embraced SSM and the right of women to control their bodies ...

Well if you believe that sort of shit, you're ripe for the scribblings of the arm-breaker ...

There is of course a slightly darker side to all this talk of violence, and it comes to the pond via the UK Terror here ...

Hmm, could the arm-breaker have been led astray by too much reading of the Quran? Did he read a couple of incendiary verses before stepping into the taxi?

Or would all the fundamentalist war-mongering on view in the Old Testament have sufficed?

Of course it's not the only time that it seems the arm-breaker was led astray by an over-zealous reading of religious texts ...as recorded in The Age here ...

Hmm, maybe he didn't get it from the Bible:

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Hmm, maybe he didn't dwell amongst the Islamics either ... according to Hadith 16, "A man said to the Prophet, 'Give me advice.' The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, 'Do not get angry.' The man asked repeatedly and the Prophet answered each time, 'Do not get angry.'"

Ah well, it's possible to cherry pick any text, and write gibberish, and to rant about violence, when the actions betray the words ...

The bigger question is why the Terrorists persist in the hate-mongering and the peddling of the words of a man prone to so many different sorts of violence in so many sorts of spheres ...

Wouldn't it have been better to publish as the text for the day, "physician heal thyself," and if there's no physician in the house, why not just pay for the arm-breaker to attend a course in anger management ...

The trouble is, reading this sort of bout of bile and anger puts thoughts into the minds of parrots, and at some point, the parrots will get distracted from their crackers and reach out for the keyboard ...

And that's where a volatile mix of stupidity, hysteria and hate speech will lead you.

The pond has a taste for Zen Buddhism, and usually doesn't pay much attention to mainstream Buddhism, but if you happened to be a Buddhist in Myanmar, there's every chance you'd be caught up in the full-flown war between the Buddhists and the Rohingya in Rakhine state, where the Buddhists are in the very violent majority (more here).

And then there are the violent Buddhists starting riots in Sri Lanka ...

Scratch any religion, and it's possible to find moderates just wanting to get on with life, and to find violent fundamentalists intent on stirring divisions and fomenting hate ...

There's no light to be gained from the arm-breaker. Just a generous dose of hate and bile.

Look at any issue of the Daily Terror and you'll find the same thing happening ... violent fundamentalists pouring petrol on the flames ...though thankfully the pond's time with this particular violent fundamentalist has reached its last gobbet ...

Actually there's one thing the majority of Australians are likely to agree on, and it concerns a question that was put to them in 2004 ...

Indeed, indeed. It's funny to think how a single hand-shake revealed and defined a violent, angry man, with the management issues already not far from the surface ...

... though there might be some who think that weirdness bubbled away from the very beginning.

Don't take the pond's word for any of this.

Look back instead to this report, cluck clucking and tut-tutting about the ways of the camera smasher and the arm-breaker ... hint, it's not from the Graudian ...

Nope that wasn't in a Fairfax paper, or in the Graudian or some other goody two shoes, do-gooder rag ... in his day, the arm-breaker was too rich even for ...

... though now they're doing the "let's bash the Islamics" tango together, who knows ...

Is it a joke or a tragedy, or both? The reptiles plumped for the comedy ... and that's where the pond will leave it too ...because there's no point in angrily arguing with an angry man. Life's too short, and there's just enough time to appreciate and enjoy the absurdities ...