by Jerome du Bois
I learned police slang from reading detective novels. In this lexicon, hump means ass, both anatomically and socially, as in "I busted my hump trying to figure out if this Muslim hump knew what his sign said." Who knows if he knows English? After all, millions of Muslims don't know Arabic, the language of the Koran, but they have to sound it out anyway, as do all those poor little bookmonkeys rocking in Pakistani madrassas. Islam is not about understanding, it's about obedience and submission. Maybe somebody just handed this hump the sign and told him to hold it up for the cameras. Maybe for all he knew the sign said, "The man under this sign is a mindless human robot." Which he is.
But what about the hump who wrote the sign? Could it be a misspelling? Let's go through the alphabet and see: bump, dump, gump, hump, jump, lump, mump, pump, rump, sump. Well, hell. None of them make sense.
Maybe it means that jihad is the camel's hump of Islam. According to the Camell Expedition:
The camel's hump is made up of a white soft fat supported by fibrous tissue. A camel's condition can be determined by its hump; a fat camel's hump will be large and extend down the sides of its body whereas in a lean camel, where the camel has drawn on its hump's resources for sustenance, the hump size will be depleted and will tend to droop over to one side.
The camel does not store water in its hump as is popularly believed, rather it is a source of energy in lean times. It is now held that the metabolic process that would be required to convert the fatty tissue into water would require more water in the process than it would produce.
Now we're getting somewhere. Islam certainly draws its sustenance from jihad, as Judaism draws its sustenance from knowledge of God, and Christianity draws its sustenance from love, and others draw their sustenance from reason. Jihad supposedly means "striving in the way of God":
This striving can take a number of forms, including the daily inner struggle to be a better person. However, jihad is often used to refer to an armed struggle fought in defense of Islam.
Which defintion of jihad do you suppose the sign-holding Muslim hump above subscribes to? A better person? I think not. As I've written elsewhere, Islam has not had any ameliorating effect on such brutal human practices as slavery, camel jockeys, wife-killing, sister-killing, daughter-killing, and murder of non-Muslims. In fact, it institutionalizes such practices.
Muslim are taught that they're better than all other walks of people on earth, and jihad is for the purpose of making the world Islam. A world of humps.
By the way, the Arabic word for camel is "jamal," which is derived from the word "jamil," meaning beauty. You read that right. In the Arab-Muslim mind, camels and beauty are etymologically related.
Another bad sign.
Posted by Jerome at September 17, 2006 03:00 PM | TrackBack