"Do you respect me? Do you fucking respect me?"

Russians have this stereotype of drunk losers asking each other "do you respect me?" and starting to fight if the other party does not show satisfactory respect. I don't know how true or untrue this stereotype is, I usually drink in better company than that, but it's strange to see it on a global scale from people most of whom are probably sober.

You can't demand respect. Or rather, you can demand it, but you can't get it by demanding. The best you can get is some pretense of respect, the worst is somebody's boot in your ass. Neither is a sign of any genuine respect. People might give you some slack, but this just means that they don't think you can be responsible for your actions like real people.

You say that we don't respect you, and you are right - we don't. I am not, of course, speaking for anybody but myself, but it is my empirical observation that pretty much nobody really respects you. They might respect some Muslims, but they don't respect YOU, you there who are rioting and demanding respect. Face it - nobody respects you, because you are not respectable.

Don't take the appeasement of the fearful, the sermons of the politically correct, the silence of the polite, the benefit of doubt that the very kind and the very ignorant among us still give you or the staggering condescension of those who say "why don't we apologize to them, who cares?" for respect. It isn't. It's contempt.

You have never achieved anything worthwhile, and you never will. You sit in front of your American computers, spread you call to jihad using Indian or Finnish or German software, and, if you can afford it, drive to your riot in a German or Korean car. And don't point fingers to Avicenna or Averroes - their achievements are not in any way yours, because you are precisely the kind of people who would be burning Averroes's books if you were there. Our respect for them does not include you. Our respect for the articulate and intelligent Muslim bloggers does not include you either - we are not forgetting even for a second that you are the reason why most of them have to blog either anonymously of from abroad.

Try to get it: if you need to demand respect with foam coming out of your mouth and while threatening to kill those who do not respect you and performing acts that would earn you an unvoluntary stay in a mental hospital in most civilized countries, you fighting for a lost cause. Might as well go home.