Mr Nice Guy

noreply@blogspirit.com (Bishopnose) — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800

I learnt early in life that if I wanted to keep my friends and stay outof trouble, I'd be wise to avoid any discussion of two taboo subjects: Politicsand religion. Why? I asked. Well, because there are just so many bigots on bothsides of the fence, so said my teacher. And, God bless his soul, he was right.So for a long time, I avoided these two topics like the proverbial plague; thatis, until Minishorts was ~~idiotic~~wise enough to review a ~~scum(najis)~~ gem ofa ~~trash~~ book written by no less a religious bigot nomatter how nice Minishorts finds him to be in "reallife". Real life? That means he has a fake life. And only Minishorts, I guess,can tell them apart through her "personal experience" and "scarce email" exchangewith him. Unwise, I say, because Minishorts knew the risks she was taking:"the subjectmatter can be quite heavy as it might be offensive to many", "... (theauthor) failing in being objective and tolerant in his book" and "... theoverzealous religious-self within this student of comparative religion hasovercome his trying efforts to be tolerant." And so, I feel I must addmy ~~penn'orth~~ sen-worth of my ~~rumblings~~thoughts to Minishorts' review of nothing short of religious bigotry whichhas ruffled some feathers. I know the bigot is gleefullycongratulating himself for being such a very nice person and for his smallsuccess in notoriety.

I've a natural aversion to nice guys because too many of them invariablyhave a split personality and live a double life of good and evil; like DrJekyll and Mr Hyde. The FBI has this tosay of an organized serial killer: 'He is usually socially adequate andhas friends and lovers, often even a spouse and children. They are the typewho, when captured, are most likely to be described by acquaintances as"a really nice guy" who "wouldn't hurt afly".' The late Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman was England's - andperhaps the world's - most prolific serial killer. He was Dr Death as wellas Mr Nice Guy. The International Herald Tribune reported on 14 May 2001that, "When Dr. Shipman was first arrested in 1998, the community was outragedat a perceived miscarriage of justice. By the time of his conviction last year(2000) in the murders of 15 people, the disbelief had all but vanished.Only then did the true scope of the crimes begin to emerge." On 13 Septemberlast year, the IHT wrote of Dr Shipman in an article entitled Re-evaluating a traditional trust: You, your physician and Britain's 'Dr.Death': "Fred, as he liked to be called, practiced medicine for more than30 years. Until a few years before his untimely death, Fred was very popularamong his patients. They loved his endearing bedside manner and his willingnessto visit patients at home. Some even called him the best doctor in theregion."

In Seattle, Clem Gregurek, a neighbour of Gary Leon Ridgway, theUSA's worse serial killer known as the Green River Killer, who wassentenced to life imprisonment in 2003 for killing 48 prostitutes, said this ofhim: "He's a nice guy, I didn't notice anything weird."

Then, most recently, The New York Times reported on 21 June of a"Nice Guy" school teacher in China who raped 26 schoolgirls between the ages of10 and 14. The newspaper also said that in December 2003, a "Nice Guy"teacher in rural Shaanxi Province was executed for raping 58 girls in 15 years.It added that last October a teenage girl in rural central China tried tocommit suicide after a "Nice Guy" teacher forced her to watch him rape hercousin. And the list of all these "Nice Guy" criminals goes on and on. What doyou think every con-man, criminal and terrorist has written over his face? "MrNice Guy", naturally. And so does every political and religious bigot. Nowonder Jesus Christ rebuked the man who called him "good". "Why do you call megood?" Jesus answered. "No one is good - except God alone." Mark 10:18 (NewInternational Version of the Holy Bible).

Minishorts says her very nice friend touches on "the treatment of thefeminine gender in this religion (Buddhism?)" in his book but doesn'tgive any details of his comments which I've no reason to believe thatthey are praises. Well, women are my favourite subject. Honest. I don'tknow how the Buddhists treat their women. But I would like an educated andintelligent Muslim woman to tell me how her man treats her. Howdoes she feel about her religion which allows her husband to marryfour wives. How does she feel about sharing her husband with threewomen. And, of course, it seems logical to ask why Islamdoesn't accord a woman equal rights to have four husbands. How does aMuslim man feel if the table is turned against him: when he has to share hiswife with three men.

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Mr Nice Guy