Smoking Cows... or something

Goofy muzzies:

Muslims who smoke and try to portray themselves as pious are worse than cows which defecate in the street, a top Malaysian Muslim cleric and politician said.

"...a cow which defecates in the middle of the road, (we) cannot take legal action against it because it has no brain and cannot think," said Nik Aziz who is the spiritual leader of the country's Pan-Islamic Party (PAS).

"But human beings, who have brains, for them to do something which is wrong in religion ... when they are in an attire which symbolises Islam, they can be regarded as being more despicable than cows"

Yeah! That makes perfect sense -- um... wait. But if that's... Are you...? Uh...

This is an excellent example of why religion and logic should never be cross-bred -- or even left in the same room together. The product is invariably a non sequitur.

Time for another Heinleinism? Yes, I believe it is:

The profession of priest has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can seriously be interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the priest is on the moral level of any other con man.

But it's lovely work if you can stomach it.