Is This Anti-Muslim Push Un-American?

September 7th, 2010   (299 views )

GAINESILLE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida pastor says the concerns of
the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan are legitimate. But he's
defending his church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on the
anniversary of 9/11 -- saying there needs to be a "clear message"
to radical Islam. Earlier today, Gen. David Petraeus warned that
the action could incite violence against Americans around the
world.

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Comment from: William [Visitor] Email
Absolutely Anti-American. It belongs on the same list as Jim Crow, McCarthyism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, etc.

Islam is no more a danger to America than Catholicism, Mormonism, Confucianism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Greek Orthodoxy, Protestantism, the "Yellow Peril," or Yankees.

Quite candidly, for me, Islam and Protestant Fundamentalism are on the same list. They condemn me and I do not much like them. However, I am here and they are just going to have to tolerate me. They are here and I am going to have to tolerate them.

Every generation seems to think that this country has always been as they found it and that it will always be that way. Sorry, guys; change happens. Get over it!

Nothing is quite so fundamentally and essentially American as tolerance.
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Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email
And burning a Koran will prove what?
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Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email · http://atheism.about.com/od/weeklyquotes/a/heine01.htm
"Most people probably don’t think about or see these connections, but they must recognize that something sinister is going on when books are burned. Perhaps it’s simply that such an action reminds people of Nazi Germany, but many appear to be repulsed by reports of books, music, or other media being ceremoniously burned by self-righteous groups. Maybe if the connection between burning books and burning people were made more explicit, the general social condemnation would be louder, making it more difficult for people to choose to burn books in the first place. "

PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 15:40
Comment from: Ben [Visitor] Email
If un-American, this is certainly far less so than the arson in Murfreesboro, or the ads on TV pushing or advocating using legal force to stop the so-called "9-11 mosque."
PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 17:01
Comment from: mags [Visitor] Email
Why is putting a crucifix in urine or putting elephant dung on the Virgin Mary's picture art but burning a Koran un-American? I guess if you are a Democrat/Liberal it's Pro American to attack Christians but do the same to a book that the Muslims cherish and you're anti-American.
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Comment from: john james [Visitor] Email
It is the worst thing that you can do as a person do another person is belittle their beliefs. It is free speech but is unamerican and i believe it should be considered breaking the law no matter what rereligion. If burning a church is illegal then why isn't burning a bible,etc. It is ethnocentric and is descrimination of religion. I don't see how it is not illegal and considered a hate crime of a lesser degree. I don't know how they put a mosque at ground zero
but i mean i'm unnopposed because if the terrorists were christian or israelites would we be opposed to them building a place of worship there. I am not sure. But i do know that fighting with people over religion in america is illegal. You can feel however you want but discrimination and segregation is ilillegal. Or is it? This kind of thing happens everyday on a smaller scale in america. But is definately not american in a eutopian america but it is common american policy.
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Comment from: Jeff [Visitor] Email
They've burned countless American Flags in the middle-east, something much more important than the Quran. I say "Let It Burn!" and "God Bless America!".
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Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
Common decency screams that it is wrong to defile another's cherished belief Whether it's the Quran, The Bible or the American flag, nothing good can come of it. I don't think that is debatable.

However, what is much more troubling is that some of these same decent people who supposedly care about those who are sensitive to this act, show no concern at all, for the innocent that could be harmed in retaliation. I am referring to the Media who have no trouble focusing and bringing attention to this topic, not caring who it hurts, as long as it sells.

Furthermore, what I don't hear condemned and should be, are those screaming "death to Americans" and threatening retaliation because of this act. Is that considered a justifiable response by some? It's not at all acceptable and should be condemned even louder but this left wing media rather condemn America, then those that threaten America. This Media and it's values are un-American.
PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 18:32
Comment from: Ben [Visitor] Email
"... what I don't hear condemned and should be, are those screaming "death to Americans" and threatening retaliation because of this act."

google is your friend.

PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 18:35
Comment from: LA [Visitor] Email
I am so outraged at this so called minister. He should not call himself a Christian, he is only promoting more violence and putting not only our soldiers, butthe whole World in danger. One ignorant and anger idiot's arrogance could have a very pricey outcome. Some one have to stop this evil man, otherwise the consequences are going to be paid by all.
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Comment from: Dezmon Teutou [Visitor] Email
I say "Burn Baby Burn"!! Let's see how they like it.
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Comment from: Gary [Visitor] Email
Why should we let Muslims build mosques in this country? Can Christians build a church in Mecca? They kill missionaries for trying to convert Muslims to Christianity in Iraq and Afganistan.Islam is a cult and their goal is to make Europe and the U.S. an Islamic state. Look at all the trouble Muslims are causing in France. They are demanding Sharia law. They want even non Muslim women to dress like nuns.
PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 18:45
Comment from: Jeff [Visitor] Email
There was another time in history that the islamic community took to the streets so quickly, it was the day the Twin Towers fell, and they celebrated in the streets in America and Abroad. They place more value on a book than a human life. God Bless America!
PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 18:53
Comment from: Jimmy [Visitor] Email
I think for all those who dare call them self American need to take a closer look at them selfs. This beautiful country is founded on freedom. This is what we fought for and will continue too. But to blame a whole religion for the action of a few spoil apple is uncalled for and so un-American. I see and hear so many times of other religion doing things to hurt people all the time but you don't see anyone blaming those religion. Kids getting rape in church and noone blames the church, but the person who did it gets blame. Rigth!? Now because we have noone to blame because those dirty rats committed suicide we decide the next best thing to do is blame a whole religion because that was their religion. It's worng by far and we as American should know better to even come to a thought like that. Let's face the fact that there is evil everywhere and awful satuation will arises but it's up to those who have good in themself to do better and not feed the fire. And for the church who decided to go and burn a holybible on the day of 9-11-10 must and I mean must not pay to much attention to the word of the lord because if they did they wouldn't be in this horrible matter. Shame on you and shame on those who speck the word of the lord and support this devilish performance. Lead by sample and like spike lee... Do the right!
PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 19:11
Comment from: Dana [Visitor]
Sorry. I did not know where to post this. I would love to see a future RFL show deal with the Outsourcing of American Jobs. I think Outsourcing has largely been overlooked as having a big impact on the recession that we are having.

The impact on me has been very great, having worked my entire career in an industry that has now been 100% outsourced overseas - to Indian and Asian workers. It'

Thank you.

Dana
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Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
I just thought of something that seems rather odd to me. 9/11 took place in 2001 yet it seems only lately, perhaps the last year or two that all of this anger is surfacing. I don't remember any talk about burning books or this much concern for Sharia law until recently. You would think there would have been much more anger before and perhaps less now.

Why do you think it seems like there is more now then before? Whats different?
It can't just have to do with the Mosque. There might be something else that is manufacturing this?
PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 19:41
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email
"Why do you think it seems like there is more now then before? Whats different?
It can't just have to do with the Mosque. There might be something else that is manufacturing this?"



I'll tell you what it is Mike, it is that we never had a president before who groveled in the face of our enemies. Sickening! Our enemy happens to be motivated by Muslim extremism and this president is constantly insulting America by apologizing for our defending our own country. Most people have had enough already. The trick though is how to deal eye for an eye with these barbarians without offending the majority of moderate Muslims whom we don't consider an enemy and we don't want to offend. I agree wholeheartedly with blocking the building of this Mosque near hollowed ground. These people know that they are wrong but have a compulsion to embarrass the US in front of the entire world. On the other hand the desecration of a Holy book is wrong, no matter whose it is and I don't agree at all with this, so called Minister. I believe he is a wacko. Its not because of the ramification of the act its because we are better than those Demons who have done similar acts against our religions, namely Christianity and Jew-deism.
PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 20:44
". Sickening! Our enemy happens to be motivated by Muslim extremism and this president is constantly insulting America by apologizing for our defending our own country."

Broadside: Bush defended Muslim faith.
PermalinkPermalink 09/07/10 @ 20:56
Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
“Our enemy happens to be motivated by Muslim extremism and this president is constantly insulting America by apologizing for our defending our own country.” -Bill

"The trick though is how to deal eye for an eye with these barbarians without offending the majority of moderate Muslims whom we don't consider an enemy and we don't want to offend. “-Bill

Bill, I don’t fully agree but I think to some degree it’s the right track. I think dishonesty and lack of integrity by our leaders has caused us to lose faith. I suppose many protesting the Mosque fear that our leaders would go along with anything, including Sharia law or terrorists ties, so as not to offend. We are no longer a country of principles. Principles say if someone is wrong they are wrong and if someone is right they are right. Nobody should be taking sides on the basis of being politically correct but only on the basis of truth. Look at Bloomberg for example. Prior to knowing the identity of the Times Square car bomber he exclaims, “Home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill…” What about Islamic terrorist? Why is that not mentioned! Take this along with Pelosis calling the Tea Party movement dangerous, while others in the administration down play Fort Hood and so on. Without equal criticism or honest assessment, what remains is strong division and the need to vigorously defend ones position. IMO, what fueled the Mosque dispute was Bloomberg’s comments and Pelosis has fueled the Tea Party and the more Obama puts down the Republicans, the more he fuels votes against his party.

An eye for an eye does not build bridges. Out going criticism and swift justice only where and when it is due is required but we must also reach out to the other side to defend the rights of all those who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but are wrongfully criticized. It has to be exactly the same for everybody no favorites, no special interests and no double standard by those on the right or the left.

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Comment from: William [Visitor] Email
Sorry, Dana, there is no such thing as an "American job," or, for that matter, a permanent one.
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 00:16
Comment from: William [Visitor] Email
"And burning a Koran will prove what?"

Exactly what they are setting out to prove, that they have contempt for others. There is no better way to show contempt for another than by burning his icons. Nice people do not do that.

It will also prove that they are contemptible. In the 1930s the Nazis showed their true colors when they burned synagogues and books. Nice people do not do that.

PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 00:24
Comment from: William [Visitor] Email
It seems to me that one of the just criticisms of "moderate Muslims" is that they have failed to condemn those who have committed atrocities in the name of Islam. Nice people are not silent in the face of evil.

I have often been critical of the hypocrisy in Christianity but I was favorably impressed today when I saw Christian leaders condemning the desecration of the Koran. Nice people are not silent in the face of evil.

PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 00:35
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email
Robert commented on Bill's following words:

"Sickening! Our enemy happens to be motivated by Muslim extremism and this president is constantly insulting America by apologizing for our defending our own country."

Roberts comment: "Broadside: Bush defended Muslim faith."

How is this a broadside??? I'm specifically speaking of "Muslim extremism" who Bush and even Obama regularly condemned and have carefully separated it from "moderate Muslims", as my words plainly spelled out. Either you need a course in reading comprehension or you are a perpetual sneak, as I've often noticed in the past.
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 08:11
Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email
Bill F.

It seems as if the link that I posted regarding bush is not working.

I will ignore your statement about being a sneak,you seem to get riled when there is a hint of someone not agreeing with you when it comes to your admoration of the former president.
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 08:43
Bill.F:
This what the link says.

"NECN: Jim Braude) - Wait til you hear what former President Bush has to say about the Ground Zero mosque.

Yes, I'm referring to the President who stood at Ground Zero and vowed to make the evil-doers pay.


For days, people have been asking: what would he say ... today .... about the attack on moderate Muslims who want to open an Islamic social center ... not at Ground Zero ... but two blocks away?

So, let me break the news to you ... George Bush agrees with President Barack Obama that freedom of religion allows no place for Americans to deny Muslims equal rights and equal respect...

Just listen as he stands shoulder to shoulder with Muslim leaders to make his point.

In fact, I'd have to say that Bush goes even further than Obama when it comes to eloquently stating the equal place of Muslims in American society...

So let's give the former President credit... he's right on the issue ... and he's courageous to speak out ... there's only little caveat to my praise.

Bush gave his passionate speech nearly 9 years ago, in September of 2001, just 8 days after the attack on the World Trade Center.

And guess what?

No one accused Bush of going soft on Islamic terror just because he defended the Muslim faith.

In fact, most Americans welcomed his remarks.

Which makes me wonder, if it was okay to defend the place of Islam at Ground Zero while the wreckage of the World Trade Center was still smoldering, why isn't it okay to do the same thing today?

And one more thing ... if George Bush still believes what he said ...he should say it again... America needs to hear it.
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 09:12
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email
"So, let me break the news to you ... George Bush agrees with President Barack Obama that freedom of religion allows no place for Americans to deny Muslims equal rights and equal respect..."


I'm really delighted that George Bush is your new hero, I've been telling you that he was a great leader all along. The only problem is that your putting words in both president's mouths that aren't there. Everyone that you've been demonizing regarding the building of this Mosque so close to Ground Zero all agree as Bush and Obama do, that "freedom of religion allows no place for Americans to deny Muslims equal rights and equal respect...". That is a no brain-er, but neither gentleman has taken a position on
whether it makes any sense whatsoever given the emotions, history and spiritual significance of this particular plot of land to go ahead with this nonsensical project that was designed in the far East to do nothing but divide our country. Can you really be that gullible? Besides, the jury is still out on who these people really are and whose really behind poking a finger in the eye of the 9/11 families and the American flag. No one had ever suggested that Mosques aren't welcomed in NY or anywhere else in America, which would allude to your argument, just not on the 9/11 site. Ask yourself, why isn't that Greek Orthodox Church, St. Nicholas, allowed to be rebuilt that was already there for over 100 years? Ask yourself, what NYC and other politicians are illicitly in bed with these people who are behind the Mosque?
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 09:54
Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email
Bill.F:
I am begining to understand what Cas has gone through with you over the years.

George Bush is not my hero.The article who was written by someone else is pointing out the fact that even he(bush) understood that it was wrong to blame all who pratice Islam for being our enemy.

And I see you made an assumption by the title of the piece "Broadside"that it was something negative.That is why I posted the piece in its whole context.

So I'm saying this to say I am not putting words in anyones mouth.
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 11:02
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email
"George Bush is not my hero.The article who was written by someone else is pointing out the fact that even he(bush) understood that it was wrong to blame all who pratice Islam for being our enemy."


There is no confusion here.........famously whenever you don't have an answer for a rebuttal for your words or the words of someone else that you are re-posting, presumably in support of your position,
you play your famous "confusion" or "misunderstood" card. That's not sneaky? After reading all of your posts explaining your intentions, my rebuttal stands 100% with no changes necessary. As I do when I post an article, the re-poster's intention is the same as if he wrote it himself, unless stated to the contrary. I have you figured out pretty well, by now.
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 12:11
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email
"So I'm saying this to say I am not putting words in anyones mouth."


You were putting words in their mouths because, in itself, what they both have said thus far does nothing to criticize a position of not building the Mosque on 9/11 hallowed ground, given all the supporting data as I and many others have stated many times.
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 12:20
Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email
Bill F:

"nothing to criticize a position of not building the Mosque on 9/11 hallowed ground,"
How you got that out of what the article says is beyond me.
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 15:02
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email
"nothing to criticize a position of not building the Mosque on 9/11 hallowed ground,"

"How you got that out of what the article says is beyond me."


Is that not the position you've famously taken for some time and written endless posts in support of shutting up the opposition to the Mosque being built??? Or am I just imagining that you even exist! Give us a break for God sakes, you're flopping around like a flounder.

PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 16:44
Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email
Bill F.

"Is that not the position you've famously taken for some time and written endless posts in support of shutting up the opposition to the Mosque being built???"

??????
PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 17:11
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email
"Is that not the position you've famously taken for some time and written endless posts in support of shutting up the opposition to the Mosque being built???"

Let me assist you with the correct answer: Most definitely!!!

PermalinkPermalink 09/08/10 @ 20:36
"Bill, I don’t fully agree but I think to some degree it’s the right track."

Mike, this one's for you.
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This Is Where We Begin to Say No:

On the Ground Zero mosque, Americans reject the opinion elites that empower the Islamists.

September 8, 2010

A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West.

Only the blink of an eye ago, uttering the unpleasant truth that in terms of doctrine there is no such thing as “moderate Islam” resulted in one’s banishment from what our opinion elites like to call the “mainstream,” by which they mean the narrow-minded, viciously defended circle of their own pieties and fictions. You could say it, but your skin had better have an extra coat or two of thick: You were in for a fusillade of rage, the likes of which our candor-phobic elites would never dream of unleashing at our Islamist enemies — no matter how clearly those enemies announced their intention to destroy us.

The fusillade still comes, but now its blows only glance. The elites and their mainstream have been exposed as frauds: Being on the wrong side of enough 70-30 issues will do that to you.

It should never have gotten this far. Sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque neither own the property in question nor possess the means to build and operate the palatial Islamic center they envision. The more light that shines on their record of murky real-estate dealings and the dubious circumstances of their limited stake in the Ground Zero property, the more questions arise. In a more sensible world, those questions would get answered before we plunged into a rancorous public debate. That hasn’t happened, though. In spite of the implacable determination of the mayor (and the attorney general who would be governor) to look the other way, the issue has galvanized the public. What has long bubbled beneath the surface did not need much more heat to boil over.

For the better part of two decades, Americans have been murdered by Islamists and then lectured that they are to blame for what has befallen them. We have been instructed in the need for special sensitivity to the unceasing demands of Islamic culture and falsely accused of intolerance by the people who wrote the book on intolerance. Americans have sacrificed blood and bottomless treasure for Islamic peoples who despise Americans — and despise us even more as our sacrifices and gestures of self-loathing intensify. Americans have watched as apologists for terrorists and sharia were made the face of an American Muslim community that we were simultaneously assured was the very picture of pro-American moderation.

Americans have had our fill. We are willing to live many lies. This one, though, strikes too close to home, arousing our heretofore dormant sense of decency. Americans have now heard Barack Obama’s shtick enough times to know that when he talks about “our values,” he’s really talking about his values, which most of us don’t share. And after ten years of CAIR’s tired tirades, we’re immune to Feisal Rauf, too.

We look around us and we see our country unrivaled by anything in the history of human tolerance. We see thousands of thriving mosques, permitted to operate freely even though we know for a fact that mosques have been used against us, repeatedly, to urge terrorism, recruit terrorists, raise money for terrorists, store and transfer firearms, and inflame Muslims against America and the West. As Islamists rage against us, we see Islam celebrated in official Washington. As we reach out for the umpty-umpth time, we find Muslim leaders taking what we offer, but always with complaint and never with reciprocation. We’re weary, and we don’t really care if that means that Time magazine, Michael Bloomberg, Katie Couric, Fareed Zakaria, and the rest think we’re bad people — they think we’re bad people, anyway.
So finally we’re asking: Where is this “moderate Islam” you’ve been telling us about? Why would a self-proclaimed bridge-builder insist on something so patently provocative and divisive? How can we be sure that if imam Rauf builds his monument on our graveyard, it won’t become what other purportedly “moderate” Islamic centers have become: a cauldron of anti-American vitriol?

It turns out that there are no satisfactory answers. When finally pressed on the taxonomy of moderate Islam, the best our elites can do — besides shouting “Islamophobia!” — is debate whether there ever was a “golden age” of Islamic tolerance. They have to confess that the Islamists — whom they’d like us to see as a handful of “extremists” but who are in truth a mass movement — are in the ascendancy. It is embarrassingly obvious that while some of us have been working to defeat Islamism in our midst, our elites are of the incorrigibly progressive mindset that counsels accommodating them — in the delusion that they will be appeased rather than encouraged to become more aggressive. That is precisely the mindset that makes an Islamist think: Maybe now is the time for a $100 million mosque at Ground Zero.
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Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
AMERICANS ARE BEING BULLLIED BY MOSLEMS AND ISLAM and Islams's RADICALS WITH THE DEMAND FOR THE MOSQUE IN NEW YORK CITY, AND NOW NOT TO BURN THE KORAM IN THE UNITED STATES. Each and every American should burn a Koram on 911 in remembrance of the victims in the WTC, like Hitler and the Germans was hated AROUND THE WORLD IN WORLD WAR II.

REMEMBER ON 9ll in 2001, THE MOSLEMS IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY WERE DANCING IN THE STREEETS!
PermalinkPermalink 09/09/10 @ 16:31
Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
REMEMBER ON 9ll in 2001, THE MOSLEMS IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY WERE DANCING IN THE STREEETS!

Gail, I knew about that also. There were a lot of young ignorant Muslims celebrating, many of whom were openly disciplined by their parents.

I'm not saying we appease, apologize or ignore aggression or bullying but if we fight fire with fire we only end up all getting burned in the end. We need to put out the fire with a lot of water, directed only at those individuals who are the problem. Unfortunately, it's are leaders that don't have the guts to put out the fire of those who are radical, so all the innocent on both sides suffer.
PermalinkPermalink 09/09/10 @ 17:26
Comment from: Ben [Visitor] Email
"ON 9ll in 2001, THE MOSLEMS IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY WERE DANCING IN THE STREEETS! "

All of them, or some of them?

Because I only saw 1 or 2 cases, and yet that hardly enables a generalized statement like "THE [insert group here] IS DOING [action]"
PermalinkPermalink 09/10/10 @ 18:53
Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
"All of them, or some of them?"

Ben, you are right. I only heard about a few cases directly but it was not widely reported by the news and it certainly did not represent the majority, so I believe it is wrong to use a generalized statement that indites those who did not do this.

BTW, this is the exact issue I have with calling tea party dangerous or racist, Glen Beck rally racist or haters. It's wrong to label a group. Only the offending individuals from that group should be called out.
PermalinkPermalink 09/10/10 @ 19:52
Comment from: fred [Visitor]
"Its wrong to label a group. Only the offending individuals from that group should be called out." mike g.

KKK included???




PermalinkPermalink 09/10/10 @ 23:09
Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
"KKK included???"

Good point Fred. I will re-state:

It's wrong to label a group, if the MAJORITY does not match the label given to them. Otherwise, only the offending individuals that do behave that way, should be called out.
PermalinkPermalink 09/11/10 @ 03:40
Comment from: Mike Q [Visitor] Email
"No one had ever suggested that Mosques aren't welcomed in NY or anywhere else in America."

Tennessee isn't part of America? How many thousands of blocks is Tennessee from the WTC? And yet protesters are getting pretty nasty about stopping the construction of a mosque there.

Just saying.

And where is all this talk coming from about Sharia law coming to America if we don't erect a wall and only let in non-Muslims? All the old established laws, the courts and police,-are all so easily blinked out of existance by the whim of a secretly Muslim and, one would think apparently, totalitarian president? What is the matter with those people who seem to be seriously proposing that such things are possible and likely? To go so far into hysteria and fantasy requires a deep-seated INTERNAL cause; the threat is not from the outside, but lurks inside. Get a grip.
PermalinkPermalink 09/11/10 @ 22:11
Comment from: John--- [Visitor] Email
MikeG: Permalink 09/11/10 @ 22:11
"...To go so far into hysteria and fantasy requires a deep-seated INTERNAL cause; the threat is not from the outside, but lurks inside. Get a grip."

TELL IT LIKE IT IS, GOOD FRIEND.

Gail: What's your problem?
PermalinkPermalink 09/12/10 @ 11:33
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email · http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/246165
September 10, 2010 12:00 A.M.

The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage:

If they’re not outraged by Ground Zero mosque protesters, it will be something else.

Shhhhhhh, we’re told. Don’t protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don’t burn a Koran. It’ll imperil the troops. It’ll inflame tensions. The “Muslim world” will “explode” if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national-security-threatening impudence, but when is the “Muslim world” not ready to “explode”?

At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways.

Just a few months ago in Kashmir, faithful Muslims rioted over what they thought was a mosque depicted on underwear sold by street vendors. The mob shut down businesses and clashed with police over the blasphemous skivvies. But it turned out there was no need for Allah’s avengers to get their holy knickers in a bunch. The alleged mosque was actually a building resembling London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. A Kashmiri law-enforcement official later concluded the protests were “premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.”

Indeed, art and graphics have an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world’s atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened German supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfeld–designed dress printed with a saying from the Koran. In 1997, outraged Muslims forced Nike to recall 800,000 shoes because they claimed the company’s “Air” logo looked like the Arabic script for “Allah.” In 1998, another conflagration spread over Unilever’s ice-cream logo — which Muslims claimed looked like “Allah” if read upside-down and backwards (can’t recall what they said it resembled if you viewed it with 3D glasses).

Even more explosively, in 2002, an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist cell plotted to blow up Bologna, Italy’s Church of San Petronio because it displayed a 15th-century fresco depicting Mohammed being tormented in the ninth circle of Hell. For years, Muslims had demanded that the art come down. Counterterrorism officials in Europe caught the would-be bombers on tape scouting out the church and exclaiming, “May Allah bring it all down. It will all come down.”

That same year, Nigerian Muslims stabbed, bludgeoned, or burned to death 200 people in protest of the Miss World beauty pageant — which they considered an affront to Allah. Contest organizers fled out of fear of inflaming further destruction. When Nigerian journalist Isioma Daniel joked that Mohammed would have approved of the pageant and that “in all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them,” her newspaper rushed to print three retractions and apologies in a row. It didn’t stop Muslim vigilantes from torching the newspaper’s offices. A fatwa was issued on Daniel’s life by a Nigerian official in the sharia-ruled state of Zamfara, who declared that “the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is abiding on all Muslims wherever they are to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty.” Daniel fled to Norway.

In 2005, British Muslims got all hot and bothered over a Burger King ice-cream-cone container whose swirly-texted label resembled, you guessed it, the Arabic script for “Allah.” The restaurant chain yanked the product in a panic and prostrated itself before the Muslim world. But the fast-food dessert had already become a handy radical-Islamic recruiting tool. Rashad Akhtar, a young British Muslim, told Harper’s Magazine how the ice-cream caper had inspired him: “Even though it means nothing to some people and may mean nothing to some Muslims in this country, this is my jihad. I’m not going to rest until I find the person who is responsible. I’m going to bring this country down.”

In 2007, Muslims combusted again in Sudan after an infidel elementary-school teacher innocently named a classroom teddy bear “Mohammed.” Protesters chanted, “Kill her, kill her by firing squad!” and “No tolerance — execution!” She was arrested and jailed, and faced 40 lashes for blasphemy before being freed after eight days. Not wanting to cause further inflammation, the teacher rushed to apologize: “I have great respect for the Islamic religion and would not knowingly offend anyone, and I am sorry if I caused any distress.”

And who could forget the global Danish-cartoon riots of 2006 (instigated by imams who toured Egypt stoking hysteria with faked anti-Islam comic strips)? From Afghanistan to Egypt to Lebanon to Libya, Pakistan, Turkey, and in between, hundreds died under the pretext of protecting Mohammed from Western slight, and brave journalists who stood up to the madness were threatened with beheading. It wasn’t really about the cartoons at all, of course. Little remembered is the fact that Muslim bullies were attempting to pressure Denmark over the International Atomic Energy Agency’s decision to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council for continuing with its nuclear-research program. The chairmanship of the council was passing to Denmark at the time. Yes, it was just another in a long line of manufactured Muslim explosions that were, to borrow a useful phrase, “premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.”

When everything from sneakers to stuffed animals to comics to frescos to beauty queens to fast-food packaging to undies serves as dry tinder for Allah’s avengers, it’s a grand farce to feign concern about the recruitment effect of a few burnt Korans in the hands of a two-bit attention-seeker in Florida. The eternal flame of Muslim outrage was lit a long, long time ago.

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