Message to Muslims: I’m Sorry (Mega-Barf)

nytimes.com ^ | Sept. 18, 2010 | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

[Free ThinkerNY]

Many Americans have suggested that more moderate Muslims should stand up to extremists, speak out for tolerance, and apologize for sins committed by their brethren.

That’s reasonable advice, and as a moderate myself, I’m going to take it. (Throat clearing.) I hereby apologize to Muslims for the wave of bigotry and simple nuttiness that has lately been directed at you. The venom on the airwaves, equating Muslims with terrorists, should embarrass us more than you. Muslims are one of the last minorities in the United States that it is still possible to demean openly, and I apologize for the slurs.

I’m inspired by another journalistic apology. The Portland Press Herald in Maine published an innocuous front-page article and photo a week ago about 3,000 local Muslims praying together to mark the end of Ramadan. Readers were upset, because publication coincided with the ninth anniversary of 9/11, and they deluged the paper with protests.

So the newspaper published a groveling front-page apology for being too respectful of Muslims. “We sincerely apologize,” wrote the editor and publisher, Richard Connor, and he added: “we erred by at least not offering balance to the story and its prominent position on the front page.” As a blog by James Poniewozik of Time paraphrased it: “Sorry for Portraying Muslims as Human.”

I called Mr. Connor, and he seems like a nice guy. Surely his front page isn’t reserved for stories about Bad Muslims, with articles about Good Muslims going inside. Must coverage of law-abiding Muslims be “balanced” by a discussion of Muslim terrorists?

Ah, balance — who can be against that? But should reporting of Pope Benedict’s trip to Britain be “balanced” by a discussion of Catholic terrorists in Ireland? And what about journalism itself?

[PROCON]

Mr. Kristof will be one of the 1st to have his head chopped off, what idiot appeasers they are!

[rawcatslyentist]

>I hereby apologize to Muslims for the wave of bigotry and simple nuttiness that has lately been directed at you.

Dear Mr and Mrs Jim and Janey Geehad:

You aint seen nothin yet.

[mjp]

equating Muslims with terrorists, should embarrass us more than you. Muslims are one of the last minorities in the United States that it is still possible to demean openly, and I apologize for the slurs.

You are the real embarrassment.The Muslims are smiling at you on the outside while laughing at you on the inside, for your innocence, naivete, gullibility, and ignorance.

[onyx]

Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and The New Yorker, a Harvard classmate, has said: "I’m not surprised to see him emerge as the moral conscience of our generation of journalists. I am surprised to see him as the Indiana Jones of our generation of journalists.”

[ZULU]

I’m sorry too. I’m sorry Charlemagne, Pope Urban, all the Crusaders, Vlad Dracul, Ian Sobieski, etc were not more successful in extirpating these scum from the earth.

[KJC1]

I hereby apologize to Muslims for the wave of bigotry and simple nuttiness that has lately been directed at you.

Mega Barf is right!

[MotorCityBuck]

No kidding. Really? WTF. These folks need help!

[PROCON]

Mr. Kristof, let me make myself very clear, but I know you won't get it...

Good luck to you!

[Enchante]

Kristof, what a moronic dhimmi scumbag

This is what a Rhodes Scholarship and a Pulitzer Prize means for the 21st century

Hey Kristof, if you really want to grovel try fellating Ahmawhackjob in the lobby of the UN building — I’m sure that your solicitude for “Muslim feelings” will be even more appreciated that way

[South40]

[hinckley buzzard]

This is the same guy who concluded that despite 45 million murders, Chairman Mao wasn't all bad.

[Cheetahcat]

Kristof There are no good Muslims wake up you pandering fool and jackazz!

[SECURE AMERICA]

Moderate/ extreme matters not “its the religion stupid!” Islam is all about oppression death destruction torture fear evil. It seeks tyo destroy civilization. Failure to understand that will result in millions of deaths of innocent people..

[Venturer]

The only mopderate Muslim is a dead Muslim.

[PGalt]

The greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collective in the history of civilization.

Fislam and the barac it rode in on.

[chooseascreennamepat]

“Dear Nicholas...I don’t care about Muslim sensitivities.”

For sure. In fact, the more I can offend them, the happier I am.

[Stultis]

Great OP-ED, Nicky!

Now put on this parachute and we’ll drop you into Waziristan to deliver it personally.

[LiberConservative]

Oh, please. I've been hearing this BULLSH!T for years. And Muslims are still too passive. Still too quiet. Still too willing to let terrorists define their beliefs.

Hey, Islam: your silence is deafening.

The biggest cowards on earth are Muslims who live quiet lives.

[M Kehoe]

Hey Kristof, I don't care what muslims think. I only care about what they do.

Today is football. Don't care what muslims think. Tomorrow is MNF, I don't care what muslims think. Tuesday is not football, and if muslims don't kill anyone, then I don't care what muslims think.

Now if Wednesday comes and muslims kill someone, well then muslims better care what I think. Why...?

5.56mm

[SaraJohnson]

We need these “smart” moral high ground people to produce a piss Mohammad like the piss Christ they loved so much at the NYT. These people always do whatever they can to hurt the feelings of Americans and impose harm on them as best they can. Their latest tools are Satanists, Homosexuals and Muslims. We never make them pay for what they do and that is why they never stop. They just get more disrespectful, uglier and lower with each passing year.