In which the pond enjoys essence of crusading fundamentalist Catholic jihadism, thanks to Devine serving ...

Right now there's hysteria surrounding the Russians and it's saturating the world. Late night comics to the left of the pond, but even the WSJ to the right wondering if someone will think of Israel.

Whatever happened to the Islamics are coming?

Fear not, the Devine is on the case ...

What joy for the reptiles. They didn't know whether to make the splash about the filthy greenies and the vile ABC, or Daesh ... (why does the Devine keep on insisting there's an Islamic state? Does she want it, does she wish for it?)

Yep, that's way better than the Russians, what with the ABC swamped by greenies and lefties - hang 'em from the nearest lamp-post - and the ABC on a jihad to establish an Islamic state ...though the pond does miss the chance to have the revolution accompanied by a little of Johnny Mandel's melodious music-making ...

Never mind, let's cut to the Devine "the Islamics are coming" chase ...

Say what?

This is the same weird anonymous woman who liked to flaunt a cross in a state school? As shown by a recent bout of Devine hysteria?

Eek, it's rabid Xian fundamentalists on a jihadist crusade ...

Well the pond could write this story in its sleep. First maestro, please, a photo of captive children being fed insidious propaganda ... indoctrinated like the walking dead or zombies, gazing eyes-glazed at the screen ...to be followed by Devine rage ...

Uh huh. Back in the day, the pond used to run around the classroom spouting anti-Catholic sentiments whenever the local plump and portly priest spared precious time from his game of golf to turn up and spout nonsense ... when everybody knew he'd prefer to be doing 18 rounds and then a hearty stint on the nineteenth hole ... and that's without the provocation of a doofus flaunting a cross or a bible in the classroom ...

And now maestro, if you please, an evocative, provocative graphic of the kind that fundamentalist Xian rabid ratbag stirrers will find to their taste ... and sssh, please, not a word about how Daesh sprang to life after the invasion of Iraq ...

What's that? The story didn't include the news that Australia is full of corruption, fornication and vice? What a shame! It entirely removes the possibility of getting the ABC while it's coming and while it's going. 

If they'd endorsed Daesh's views, how shocking that would have been, and how deplorable, and how the Devine would have deplored. Instead they didn't run Daesh's views, and how shocking is that, and naturally the Devine deplored this deplorable omission!

And now maestro, if you please, could we conflate the story and the ABC with an insidious, devious, imperialistic flag, representing all that's wrong with religious fundamentalism ...

 

Oh no maestro, the pond will have to mark that down as a blunder, a reflection on the appalling state of the education system ...

Please, try again, surely you know what to do to instil fear and terror...

What's that kids? You'd like things better for all and peaceful? Harden the fuck up, how are we going to get decently tough kids to go on jihad with that sort of namby-pamby, maudlin, weak-kneed, pussy-footing approach?

Universal healthcare and access to education? Get out of it, you dropkick losers, you wastrels ...why, what's the chance you don't realise that Obama chap was a Muslim socialist feminist communist pervert born in Kenya and educated in a fundamentalist school in Indonesia?

You swallowed that talk of Hawaii whole?

Now, now, please no idle chatter or talk of the way that Israel snatched away land from Palestinians, and is still snatching land even at this moment. You see, it's much too poisonous to mention actual history and describe what happened. That's not how it's done in the Devine school of rabid intolerance and right-wing extremism ...

So instead why not just splash on a nice perfume to make the day and the situation of the Palestinians in the middle east smell ever so sweet ...

Yep, kiddies, the pond realises that we missed out on that other movie altogether ... though at least there was one mention of Trump, even if strangely, it was about him being a reality TV star and having a lot of money, when really, it should have shouted out that ...

Never mind, children, the pond would be pleased if you now averted your eyes. 

You see David Rowe has once again portrayed the emperor in all his finery and new clothes, with lots more Rowe to be found here ... and the sight of the Devine reduced to yet another frothing, foaming frenzy is not for sensitive innocent young eyes ... as opposed to the Donald in all his glory ...