Scary

[rhythmaning]

I came across the American Taliban whilst reading The Obviuous?, a blog I look at every now and then. (I think it was because it covered something about knowledge management originally, but that is a long, long time ago.)

The American Taliban is a long list of quotations from right wing and evangelical Americans. And they are rather scary quotations at that - intolerant, homophobic, and racist.

The webpage itself doesn't explain what the page is trying to achieve - whether it is praising or damning those it quotes, although the About Us page in the root says it is

"a new student/staff/faculty association which encourages discussions of science, philosophy, religion, society and politics from an adult, secular humanist, Enlightenment perspective."

OK, so you know how I got there, you know (a bit) about the people behind it - it is a college (.edu) URL.

Of course, it could be fake, made up.

If the quotations were made up, it might even be funny. But if not, I find it very, very disturbing.

Comments

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Dunno 'bout the rest of them, but after watching the Louis Theroux docu on Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, I have no trouble believing he said the ones attributed to him... *shudder*

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm glad you linked to this...according to Pat Robertson, I'm doing this feminism thing all wrong: "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." Not to mention Rush Limbaugh's take on things: "Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." When did half of my f-list turn into unattractive crones and why wasn't I informed?

[white_hart]

Someone on my FL has an excellent icon made from that Pat Robertson quote...