Standing Up To Terror

The American Enterprise Online ^ | February 13, 2006 | William Tucker

[neverdem]

Boy, those TV people are nervy, aren’t they?  I mean, this year’s Super Bowl featured a man and woman simulating sexual intercourse on an airplane, and a 12-year-old girl discussed married sex with her mother. Takes guts, doesn’t it? 

 

And the newspapers—they’re just incredible, huh? The New York Times has risked its neck by revealing that the Bush Administration has been monitoring overseas phone calls. Stogy old Commentary is comparing this to the isolationist Herald Tribune printing a story in 1942 telling the Japanese we had broken their code. Those neoconservative loonies think the Times ought to be prosecuted for divulging secrets in wartime! Well, it’s a different world, brother! Our press today will go to jail en masse rather than give up freedom of speech!

 

And Hollywood, aren’t they the same? Every Academy Award nomination for best picture tackles some red-hot controversy—homosexuality, racism, the Israeli response to terror, McCarthyism. Why, that must be the fourth movie on McCarthyism in the last decade! As one letter to The Daily News commented, “If King Kong had been gay, he would have been nominated, too.”

 

Yes, there’s nothing our good old courageous media won’t tackle, is there?

 

Well, yes there is. It turns out not a single TV network and only two newspapers—the New York Sun and the Philadelphia Inquirer—have dared publish the dozen Danish cartoons that have set off riots around the world. Even the New York Press, which once ran a whole column in which a writer described removing a boil from his scrotum, has chickened out. Four staff members quit in protest last week after the top brass backed down.  

 

Whence this newfound humility? Well, everybody’s mumbling something about “respect for religion” and “not wanting to offend anybody,” but the real reason is transparent.  They’re scared to death. Publishing portraits of rock stars posing as Jesus or putting naked movie stars on the cover of Vanity Fair—that’s all in a day's work. Only a bunch of hillbillies down in Arkansas will be offended. But publishing a cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban—now that’s serious. Somebody might start throwing rocks or set off a bomb in the office. Best to duck our heads on this one. Trading brickbats with government officials is one thing; doing something risky is quite another. 

 

My question is, what’s the difference? Nothing we say or do will make Muslims like us any better. Islam has been beating down the door of Western Civilization since the time of Charlemagne. They conquered Spain, took Constantinople in 1453, besieged Vienna in 1529 and again in 1683. The Turks blew up the Parthenon in 1687 and fighting between Greeks and Turks continued into this century. The Balkans became the “powder keg of Europe” once the Turks invaded. 

 

And it isn’t just us. Islam is at war with every civilization on its borders. They’re fighting with India, with China, with African tribes in Sudan. Nor do Muslims ever stop fighting among themselves. The whole history of Islam is a story of a group of dissidents going out into the desert, deciding the religion practiced by the elites was not the “true Islam,” and crashing back upon the cities to seize power. The word “assassins” comes from a Persian cult whose members drugged themselves with hashish before carrying out suicide attacks. The Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda are just the latest of a long, long line.

 

Islam is a culture that has never learned to curb male violence. All it can do is export it.

 

So what can we poor Americans to do except hold another “Multicultural Appreciation Day?”  Here’s what I would suggest.

 

In order to put some backbone in the press for the trials ahead, let’s pick a day—I nominate February 28^th, two weeks from today—in which every newspaper in America and every TV news station in America will display the offending cartoons.  For the faint-hearted there’ll be safety in numbers. It will inform the public and restore our self-respect. It certainly won’t ingratiate us with world of Islam, but what’s the difference? At least they’ll know they’re facing a united front.

 

When the Germans overran Denmark during World War II, they immediately announced that all Jews must wear the yellow star. Instead of cowering in their homes, every man, woman and child in the country donned a yellow star, including the King of Denmark. It seems only fitting that we return the favor. 

 

And if you’re planning to bomb The American Enterprise offices in retaliation for this column, please don’t bother. I hardly ever set foot in the place. I live at 430 4^th Street in Brooklyn, right around the corner from the ice cream storeowner who was just sentenced to 18 years for smuggling $11 million to terrorists in the Middle East and two doors up from a fireman who was killed on September 11^th.  I’m home every day.

[Cindy]

Thank you.

[freedumb2003]

Tucker, you have guts. But you are NUTS giving out your home address.

[freedumb2003]

It must take you forever to retype those links every time! ;)

(thanks for doing it -- I have your list bookmarked).

[Cindy]

Well thank you freedumb2003.
The list has already changed.
It's updated multiple times in a 24 hour cycle.

Tonight I'll do the uploads here and then you will be able to see the latest changes:

http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html

[jocon307]

"I’m home every day."

DAMN I AM WITH YOU! I live across the street from the bum who bombed the WTC the first time. I lived across the street from the Mosque were the Jihadi who shot Kahane worshipped.

Good, good, good. Now I don't have a newspaper, so I'm not sure what to do, but I can be somewhere on Feb. 28th. and wilco with that.

[gleeaikin]

Interesting Washington Post Articles.

I wanted to post those same articles, but have not yet learned how to do that with my new computer. You missed one more good story in this Saturday's Post. This is the one about Canada sending a contingent of troops to Kandajar in Afghanistan. They plan to more than double their commitment. Other European countries were waffling on whether to meet their commitments in the Middle East. Maybe this whole cartoon flap has stiffened some backbones.

[PGalt]

WOW! GREAT!

[freedom9]

In Genesis, the serpent was told that it's offspring would bruise the heel of the woman's offspring and that the woman's offspring would bruise it's head.

The word, Jacob, means heel.

Jacob, is the patriarch of Israel.

The Islamic nations are determined to destroy Israel.

[tioga]

Finally, a real man. Hallelujah!!1

[GOPJ]

Ping - please read...

[TADSLOS]

“If King Kong had been gay, he would have been nominated, too.”

LOL! Would be funnier if it wasn't true.

[Madame Dufarge]

While the LSM hobbles about on its calloused knees, Mr. Tucker would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.

Good for him.

[Darksheare]

!!!

Okay.. that's different.
WaPo opened a window and a cluebug came in and bit a few people for a few seconds?

[freeangel]

When you don't stand up to terror, you're standing up FOR terror. I can hardly wait to see the consequences this has for all the apologist countries. (ours included)

[SmithL]

Bravo Zulu

[george76]

Multiple Choice Test

1. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles by
(a) Superman,
(b) Jay Leno,
(c) Tiger Woods,
(d) a Muslim man between 17 and 40 years old.

2. In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed at the Munich Olympics by
(a) the kid who cuts your grass,
(b) Sitting Bull,
(c) Arnold Schwarzenegger,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

3. In 1979, the US Embassy in Tehran was over-ran & 90 Americans were held for 444 days by
(a) Bruce Lee,
(b) Elvis Presley's deceased twin brother,
(c) a tour group of Minnesota grandmothers,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

4. During the 1980s, several Americans were kidnapped in Beirut by
(a) O J Simpson,
(b) the king of Sweden,
(c) the pope and a gang of Cardinals,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

5. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon was blown up, killing 220 Marines, by
(a) a Domino's Pizza delivery man,
(b) the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
(c) Catherine Zeta-Jones,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

6. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70-year-old American passenger thrown overboard in his wheelchair by
(a) Sugar Ray Leonard,
(b) your next door neighbor,
(c) the Little Mermaid,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

7. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by
(a) Captain Kangaroo,
(b)Walt Disney,
(c) Mother Teresa,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

8. In 1988, Pan American Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb in midair by
(a) Butch Cassidy,
(b) the Sundance Kid,
(c) the Tooth Fairy,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

9. The World Trade Center was bombed the first time in 1993 by
(a) Stonewall Jackson,
(b) Michael Jordan,
(c) Winston Churchill,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

10. In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by
(a) Santa Claus,
(b) your sister's cat's grandmother's first owner's son's basketball coach's ex-wife,
(c) the World Wrestling Federation,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

11. On September 11, 2001, airliners were hijacked to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by
(a) Bugs Bunny,
(b) Bob the Tomato,
(c) Ricky Martin,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

12. In 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal was kidnapped and beheaded by
(a) Bonnie and Clyde,
(b) the Michelin man,
(c) Barney Fife,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

13. In July of this year, several targets were attacked in central London, killing 52 persons, by
(a) the Orkin Man,
(b) Margaret Thatcher,
(c) Mr. Goodwrench,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

[Grampa Dave]

A great short list of acts of Islamofascist terrorism committed by Muslims Men between the ages of 17 to 40.

[GOPJ]

Mr. Tucker would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.

You're right.

[dixiechick2000]

WOW!
Great article!
Kudos to Mr. Tucker!

I enjoyed this thread posted yesterday.

Muhammed Emoticons

I especially liked the Danish caricature.

*-O(:~{>

I am home, too.
I live not far from what is considered to be the most radical mosque in the country.

Thank you for the post, and the ping!

[T.L.Sink]

Yes, the media have been intimidated and frightened, demonstrating their cowardly PC bias. Aside from what some individuals may think about the cartoons they should have been universally published as a demonstration of Western democratic solidarity against the global barbarism of an ignorant and barbaric Islamofascism. When it came to a genuine concern for freedom of speech and the press the MSM hid behind their desks. Incidentally, Chris Wallace on FOX showed the cartoons and Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard printed them. Plaudits to both.