Religion of Peace Is Hung By Its Own Petard

9/18/2006 | Howard Galganov

[UnklGene]

Petard

[AppyPappy]

Word History: The French used petard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, “fart.”

[Enchante]

"Wherever you look on this planet. If there is a failed state, internecine sectarian violence, and TERRORISM, it is more likely than not that the word Islam will somehow be attached to it."

I would add: While all religions have had their periods of intolerance, Islam is uniquely associated TODAY with massive violence and depravity in the name of religion. Of all the major religions in the world today, only ONE is consistently and widely associated with continual barbarism, wilful slaughter of innocents for political ends, and pervasive intolerance of other religions. Only ONE continually threatens its followers with DEATH for any deviation from the prescribed course. Only ONE is continually associated with the vilest depradations against women and children who can't fight back. Only ONE religion today is a major threat to the peace, stability, and indeed survival of the entire world. That "religion" is called Islam.

[AmericanInTokyo]

People are waking up at the American grassroots. It will take courage, but if we all unite and stand up together they cannot kill all of us. What is YOUR local church’s position on Islam, its violence worldwide, and its latest intimidation and murder of Christians? Ask them today take a stand. Let us all take a stand, from coast-to-coast. It only takes a little courage and a large enough sign viewable from the boulevard.

[oh8eleven]

If this is the catalyst that finally ignites the confrontation, so be it, since it is long overdue.
Amen - let's roll.

[meandog]

[Bernard Marx]

can you be hung with a bomb?

Some have been "unhung," however, like Jake Barnes. It was a rotten way to be wounded.

[Living Free in NH]

How about if I painted a picture of a camel evacuating his bowels onto the sand and entitle it "The Birth of Muhammed"? Would they kill me for that too?

You don't have to do anything - they already want to kill you.

[EdReform]

Ping

[BMC1]

Great cartoon. I love it.

[NCC-1701]

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[xjcsa]

How about if I painted a picture of a camel evacuating his bowels onto the sand and entitle it "The Birth of Muhammed"? Would they kill me for that too?

I would pay good money for a beautiful work of art like that.

[sionnsar]

HOIST.....A petard is a bomb....can you be hung with a bomb?
"hoist" in this case means to be literally blown upwards.

From Wikipedia on "petard":

"Hoisted by his own petard"

The word remains in modern usage in the phrase to be hoisted by one's own petard, which means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall in one's own trap". Shakespeare coined the now proverbial phrase in Hamlet.

In the following passage, the "letters" refer to instructions (written by his uncle Claudius, the King) to be carried sealed to the King of England, by Hamlet, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, the latter being two schoolfellows of Hamlet. The letters, as Hamlet suspects, contain a death warrant against Hamlet, who will later open and modify them to instead request the execution of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Engineer refers to a military engineer.

There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,

Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,

They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way

And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer

Hoist with his own petar: and 't shall go hard

But I will delve one yard below their mines

And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,

When in one line two crafts directly meet.

After modifying the letters Hamlet (rather improbably) escapes the ship and returns to Denmark.

The verb "hoist" is an irregular past tense of the obsolete verb "hoise", meaning "raise" or "lift". The same form is used in "burn" and "burnt".

The phrase is usually misquoted as "see the engineer hoist by his own petard" and is taken to mean "the hangman hanged with his own rope", or, as in Roadrunner cartoons, a rope, put out to catch something, entangles and hangs the one who set the trap, while the audience "sees" (watches) in amusement.

Hamlet's actual meaning is "cause the bomb maker to be blown into the air with his own bomb", metaphorically turning the tables on Claudius, whose messengers are killed instead of Hamlet.

[rightwingextremist1776]

Islam needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth and returned to it's birthplace...HELL!

[Capt. Tom]

The fact that these are not Catholic Churches didn’t stop the “Religion of Peace” from firebombing these religious structures.

Infidels are Infidels. Whatever they say they believe in; they don't believe in Allah, and that is reason enough to punish them.

The world is divided into two groups, Muslims and non- Muslims. It is the duty of the Muslims to subjugate, convert, or kill non-believers in Allah; regardless of race ,creed, national origin, occupation, age or gender. - tom

[theDentist]

Well, I think I'll paint it anyhow.

[Mark-in-Kentucky]

[scooter2]

Islam needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth and returned to it's birthplace...HELL!

My sentiments exactly.

[Dacus943]

"What did the muslim say back to the Christian?"

Back then - muslims and Christians both were ready to back up their comments with action!