Lying Liars: Ric Ottaiano Edition

Gather round, boys and girls, and let me again illustrate for you the deceptively simple-minded mendacity of the species bloggerus rightwingnuticca. Today’s specimen is one Ric Ottaiano, who spews his pap at a blog entitled Release the Hounds. One of his recent piles of crap is entitled Muslims Must Clean Up Their Own Nest:

I ask the following questions in good faith and in non-rhetorical fashion. As God is my witness, I honestly seek explanations and answers.

Wait a second. We’ve already seen that Ric does not conduct his discussions in the way an honest man would. He has no compunction about lying, even about his own past statements.

Furthermore, please explain to me why the publishing of cartoons can motivate Muslim populations throughout the world to feel outrage, demonstrate violently and call for action, while the burning of 60 innocent people in a train, or the blowing to bits of innocent people in a courtroom, or the killing of innocent people at a karaoke bar illicits nary a whimper of protest or condemnation.

Here we have further evidence of Ric’s essential intellectual dishonesty. He mentions the riots that occurred last year over cartoons published in Denmark, and claims that they were met with “nary a whimper of protest or condemnation”. Oh, really?...

Islamic officials urge end to riots as 4 protesters die

“Islam says it’s all right to demonstrate but not to resort to violence. This must stop,” said senior cleric Mohammed Usman, a member of the Ulama Council — Afghanistan’s top Islamic organization. “We condemn the cartoons but this does not justify violence. These rioters are defaming the name of Islam.”...

In Baghdad, Iraq’s top Shiite political leader criticized attacks on foreign embassies by Muslims. “We value and appreciate peaceful Islamic protests,” said Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. “But we are against the idea of attacking embassies and other official sites.”

Danes in despair as protesters set fire to consulate in Beirut

The world’s leading Islamic body condemned the violence. “Over-reactions surpassing the limits of peaceful democratic acts . . . are dangerous and detrimental to the efforts to defend the legitimate case of the Muslim world,” the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, representing 57 nations, said.

Caricatures Roil Muslim World

Reuters reports, ’ Syria’s grand Mufti Badr Eddine Hassoun, told government newspaper al-Thawra that the attackers did their country harm. “We feel sorrow that these people who were driven by passion reached the stage where they have undermined our dialogue with the Norwegian and Danes,” he said. ’

The Grand Mufti is the country’s chief religious authority on Islamic law.

It wasn’t hard to find the condemnation Ric Ottaiano claims never occurred. But Ric would never dream of looking for the facts. He prefers ignorance. He needs ignorance. He craves ignorance. And he will never, ever, do anything that might threaten his ignorance.

Don’t go to Ric’s site expecting to find the facts — because facts are anathema to the lies Ric tells. He will avoid the facts at all costs, and he will go right on lying. How does that God of yours feel about liars like you, Ric?