“What Do A Billion Muslims Think?”

Since Iran became a caliphate (Probably. I was (-2) years old at the time.), people have speculated about what Muslims think. As is typical, nobody seems to have done the obvious. Just ask them already.

Well, Gallup just finished doing just that. It’s hilarious the bullshit that Americans have been fed about “cultural differences” between the “Islamic World” and “The West.”

What Do A Billion Muslims Think?

(c/o The Christian Science Monitor)

There it is. I honestly don’t even know how to comment on this, being so flabbergasted. A comfortable (58%) majority of men in Saudi Arabia think women should have voting rights, for crying out loud.

I’m also very bemused by the absence of any mention of this on any other news site. New York Times, CNN, BBC . . . Al-Jazeera hasn’t mentioned it, for crying out loud.

The majority of muslims are every bit as moderate as westerners. Pundits, please shut the hell up now.

Do you know what sucks worse than biting your tongue?

Absolutely, positively nothing . . .

Except biting your tongue very, very hard, and then being an English teacher, so you need to speak for 6+ hours a day just to teach, nevermind administrative odds and ends, personal life, sorting out taxation and pension hijinks, and then living in a country where there is at least a little bit of red pepper in every remotely common food.

I would share more, but sorting laundry was intellectually taxing.

I can’t even eat the delicious, wonderful candy that just arrived from the US, care of Ma and Pa Schroeder because of this shit.