Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2009

Hey, Alanis Morrisette...pay attention...


It seems that there is this prominent Muslim who was arrested for taking a few inches off of his wife:

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband -- an influential member of the local Muslim community -- reported her death to police Thursday.

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.
Tragic...and...well...ironic. You see, according to Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, the suspect and his late wife were upset by the negative perceptions of Muslims.

Muzzammil Hassan came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago. He became a successful banker in Buffalo, New York, near the famed Niagara Falls.

While he and his wife were happy to be in the United States, they were upset by the negative perceptions of Muslims, and particularly how this perception might affect their children.

That is how they came up with the idea of Bridges TV. Mr. Hassan's wife challenged him to start it.
That, Alanis, is ironic. A black fly in your Chardonnay...well...I don't know what that is. Or...meeting the man of your dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife. That's...hmmm...the whole Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty thing, and likely a good percentage of Hollywood as well as your profession.

Here's some irony for you:

How about a parent acting like a child? Or...how about a vegetarian enjoying some nice red meat? My personal favorite is the Illinois Legislature focusing on ethics. That irony is so thick that you can cut it with ten thousand spoons when what you need is a knife...

Got it?

Sought for comment, Alanis Morrisette exclaimed, “What are doing in my house!!! How did you get in here!!! HELP !!!”

She probably thought it ironic, being that she uses a broad definition of the term such that it doesn’t really reflect ‘irony’ at all. With each new story such as the one concerning Muzzammil Hassan above...the irony is starting to fade into Alanis Morrisette territory.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Where's the Irony?



CAIRO — Even in old age the imposingly tall, athletic German known to locals as Tarek Hussein Farid maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt’s capital. He walked to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque here, where he converted to Islam, and to the ornate J. Groppi Cafe downtown, where he ordered the chocolate cakes he sent to friends and bought the bonbons he gave to their children, who called him Uncle Tarek.

Friends and acquaintances here in Egypt also remember him as an avid amateur photographer who almost always wore a camera around his neck, but never allowed himself to be photographed. And with good reason: Uncle Tarek was born Aribert Ferdinand Heim, a member of Hitler’s elite Waffen-SS and a medical doctor at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps.
A Nazi murderous creep converting to Islam and fitting like a glove. What an astounding LACK or irony.

“Dr. Heim had a habit of looking into inmates’ mouths to determine whether their teeth were in impeccable condition,” Mr. Kohl said, according to a transcript of the interview. “If this were the case, he would kill the prisoner with an injection, cut his head off, leave it to cook in the crematorium for hours, until all the flesh was stripped from the naked skull, and prepare the skull for himself and his friends as a decoration for their desks.”
As I said...what an astounding LACK or irony.