Benedict the Bombthrower:Why the pope's speech really was outrageous (Liberal view alert)

American Prospect ^ | 09/25/2006 | Adele Stan

[BelegStrongbow]

This is what happens when the author begins a logical process in media res. Not pretty, but it's good to know they still think they can dictate terms.

[ArrogantBustard]

Adele M. Stan is the author of the weblog, AddieStan.com, and the book, Debating Sexual Correctness.

Ten to one says Adele M. Stan is a flaming poofter (or a screeching lezbo).

[cardinal4]

Fact: Benedict mentioned that Islam has violent followers.

Fact: Islamists rioted burning churches and killed a nun

Conclusion: Islam sucks

[frogjerk]

Adele M. Stan is the author of the weblog, AddieStan.com, and the book, Debating Sexual Correctness.

With credentials like this....

[Brilliant]

Most of us thought that the Islamcist's reaction was really outrageous, so it makes perfect sense that the Libs would now claim that it's the Pope's comment that was outrageous.

[pgyanke]

But to throw a rhetorical bomb such as that the pope tossed into the teeming cities of the Muslim world is to commit an act tantamount to violence.

Liberal, pants-wetting traitors would rather brave men of truth remain silent than confront the evil in our world. May their chains rest lightly...

[Disturbin]

"But to throw a rhetorical bomb such as that the pope tossed into the teeming cities of the Muslim world is to commit an act tantamount to violence."

A rhetorical bomb? This author is out of his or her mind.

[BlessedBeGod]

I just smile when I see stuff like this. The authors are so clueless.

On the other hand, BXVI knows exactly what he's doing.

[Mogollon]

Liberals think we should walk on egg-shells and enable islamofascists to continue with their infantile temper tantrums.

[Mad Dawg]

What a completely stupid article! Words fail me!

(Not criticizing you at all. It's always good to be reminded how silly these people can be.)

[Paradox]

But to throw a rhetorical bomb such as that the pope tossed into the teeming cities of the Muslim world is to commit an act tantamount to violence.

This statement is tantamount to moronic stupidity. Either you can have dialog, or you cannot. Islamic Fundamentalism cannot. It must be vanquished.

[JimSEA]

I like the part where after listing her liberal and feminist qualifications (including writing for the "Village Voice") she concludes that:

She is in the midst of planning a second career as a lounge-singing ukulele-player.

[UB355]

Adele M. Stan is a journalist and editor whose work has appeared in The New Republic, the Village Voice, The Nation, The Advocate, Salon.com, the Washington Blade and Mother Jones magazine, as well as on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Daily News. She began her media career at Ms. magazine, where she served both on staff and as a contributing editor.

[Emile]

The point of the piece is exactly of a mind with the Islamofascist view: that free speech that offends is violence, so it must be banned, or, alternatively, forcibly suppressed. If the libs keep rationalizing these attempts at suppression of free expression around the world, one day it'll be their expression that's being suppressed. How they can't fathom this reality, I can't understand.

[RedStateRocker]

"Add to these profound differences a recent history of Western colonial domination, the resulting economic domination by the West, as well as America's present assertion -- via bombs and occupation -- of Western ideals as universal and superior to all others, and the recipe for worldwide Muslim rage is complete."

Quick, somebody call the Whaamulance!

"Note the campaigns of King Charlemagne"
Typical lib- ever hear of the concept of 'self defense'?

What a wanker, drop him over Mecca sans parachute.

[HarleyLady27]

"Don't knock the leader of my religion"....its not nice...

[ArrogantBustard]

The Advocate, ... the Washington Blade ...

Yep. She writes for Fag-mags and communist propaganda sheets, and got started at a radical feminist magazine. That's just got to increase the odds she's a man-hating feminazi lesbian.

[foghornleghorn]

This is such an uninformed piece of nonsense it hardly deserves being refuted. But for one thing, Christianity itself never advocated spreading the word by the sword. Often, Christian princes took the faith and brought their people along, sometimes coercively, but the faith was never a military campaign. And the Crusades were not some unjustified raid against Islam, but in fact Christianity had flourished in the Levant for six-hundred years before Mohammed was even thought of. The crusaders only attempted to re-take the holy lands after the Muslims destroyed the shrines and barred pilgrims from visiting them, after having taken the sites by force over the prior centuries.

This liberal fascination with moral equivalence is simply laughable. We are truly in a "clash of civilizations". But it is not new. It has just been in remission, and is now regaining strength. We had better wake up to the fact, or we will soon face another Manzikert, but in our own lands.

[oldleft]

WESTERN CULTURE IS SUPERIOR