[rmlew]

Lawrence Auster is the author of Erasing America: The Politics of the Borderless Nation. He offers a traditionalist conservative perspective at View from the Right.

[EBH]

Declaring that some of the words used by Orianna Fallaci in her book about Islam were "without doubt offensive to Islam and to those who practice that religious faith," an Italian judge has ordered her to stand trial for anti-Islamic defamation.

Since when is being offensive against the law?? If that's the case then I want all the secularists to stand trial for defamation of people of faith, I want all the secularist to stand trial for offending me and my opinion about my faith, I want all the democrats to stand trial for the offensive language regarding 9/11...

When will people of good conscience stand-up and stop this lunacy?

[Cacique]

It matters not one whit what the great center that lives in that famed Egyptian river thinks. It is elites that rule an vie for power. Our only hope is that the pendulum swings to our side. I see this period as comaparble to the thrities when most Europeans and even some americans thought the Nazis benign. At some point came the realization there were no moderate Nazis and that they had to be destroyed totally.

I hope the same will hold true for Muslims, the realization that there are no moderate muslims and that our survival will depend on the total destruction of islam as a force in the world.

[Atheist_Canadian_Conservative]

I wonder if the Muslims will ever advance to the stage where they live in caves and beat each other over the head with clubs. Progress sure has been slow in that part of the world (well, I guess they gave us '0', literally and almost figuratively).

The left will hopefully soon see that tolerance of the islamofascists is not acceptable - they belong in the same group as the Klan, neo-nazi skinheads, and other subhuman trash. My (not so heartfelt) apologies to skinheads.

[FierceDraka]

I don't think the Moozies will have much impact on American society. Unlike the disarmed Euro-sissies who bend over and take what they're given, we Americans will only tolerate so much before we snap.

History shows that there are no enemies more deadly than armed Americans in a scrap.

[JasonC]

"If we became convinced that a billion Muslims are not like us but are irreconcilably different from us and dangerous to us, then, instead of being open and accepting toward them, we would have to become closed and defensive."

Why is that exactly? Because it doesn't follow. I think the first, without thinking the second.

The missing minor premise is that no one could possibly tolerate an irreconcilably different and dangerous pack of neighbors. But I do it every day. Remarkably few of you are anything like me, nearly all of you are quite dangerous - some more than others it is true. But I do not attempt to live in a mythical world without danger. I live in danger as I live in the corporeal world. It makes courage a virtue, not annihilation of others a necessity. It means I am willing to fight whenever the occasion for it arises, not that I am "closed and defensive".

See, the left only has this problem because they are trying to construct a pacifist existence in a world with real differences and dangerous men. It is the pacifism that is in contradiction with those things, not tolerance. I am perfectly open and accepting of the fact that Muslims are Muslims and wrong, that great bogs of them are unjust, that some of them are even dangerous (while lots of others wish they were, but are impotent).

The left actually only accepts tolerance as a virtue because they are trying to arrive at a mythic state of peace in which all danger has disappeared. Hence this writer's confusion - he thinks tolerance is only chosen if it results in peace, or that safety is the only good to aim at. I tolerate because I recognize the universal state of error mankind is sunk in. I do not remotely think it magically creates safety. I know perfectly well that only strength and courage create safety.

I just also know that intolerance does not bring any increase in strength. Look at those who organize their societies around its absence, and around brutality. They are mostly poor as dust, ignorant, incapable of any lasting achievement, they live off our discarded scraps of technology and any wealth they have comes from us. Why would I want to imitate their stupidities and injustices?

[Cogadh na Sith]

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