Muslims, TV, and Me

I don’t know about some of you out there roaming around minding your own business on the interblag, but I’ve been reading a lot about these bannings of certain Muslim paraphernalia. The veil and burqa come to mind. I’m not sure how this is being portrayed; however, I have a pretty good idea.

We need to protect the Muslim women by taking away these antiquated items of the Muslim faith. It is used to oppress the female condition.

That sounds like something a lot of people can get behind. Let’s look at some of the reasons for which countries are attempting and succeeding in subverting Muslims on the whole: Belgium votes on and passes a ban on the Muslim veil, France moving toward banning veil in public.

I understand there are some Muslims that support this endeavor. I can see how one might want to support such a thing. I just don’t happen to agree. I find this not terribly different (no matter with how much fervor the christians are going to say it’s different to a degree that one just can not fathom) from the “persecution” of Christians in the Good book. Law and action was taken again christians according to the good book for simply being christian. So, er, what exactly is happening now to Muslims? Exactly.

Enough of that then. I just downloaded all of the existing episodes (in high def no less!) of V. This show is pretty good! I don’t watch much TV, so it took me a while to discover it was on and so yah, I got it all from the Pirate Bay sans commercials. I really enjoy commercial-less stuff. I don’t watch them. I think of them as multiple small intermissions to whatever I might be viewing. As a result, I no longer watch traditional TV. Enter my savior the Pirate Bay. Anyhow, there’s that. I was a fan of the original V series also, so take my recommendation with a grain of salt.

Speaking of the commercials. I heard about this, went to see it, and holy hell, this is pretty awesome:

And of course: Let’s make it HOT:

Could you flatten that out a little? ^_^