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Posted on 06/13/2002 6:21:55 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
If Robert Frost was correct when he quipped that "a liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel," then America has descended into the depths of leftism. The systematic way in which government and the media have consistently followed the path of self-loathing and self-negation could be the source of great humor, if the matters being bungled were not so grave.
While the attacks of September 11th roused a dormant patriotism in the collective American bosom, it also unveiled how deeply entrenched public discourse is in political correctness. Day after day the "war on terror" brings more misinformation, disinformation and propaganda. Most security measures are either window dressings for public consumption or usurpations of civil liberties by power-hungry elements within the bowels of bureaucracy.
The myths need to be dispelled and the elephant in America's living room needs to be addressed for the sake of that rarest of post-modern commodities - the truth.
Myth #1: Terrorism is not about Islam.
In fairness, someone did try to warn America to this sobering fact last fall in a Wall Street Journal editorial. The author, Amir Taheri, is a Muslim. He declared that "to claim that the attacks had nothing to do with Islam amounts to a whitewash." Some may think it ironic that a Muslim author is the one sounding the warning bell about his own faith. It isn't ironic in the least. Given the ground rules of politically correct discourse, only a minority may criticize a minority - only a Muslim may criticize Muslims.
Myth #2: Profiling is an evil to be avoided at all costs.
Profiling is an integral part of detective work and one component of the process is a person's race. When a cross is set ablaze on a black homeowner's lawn, you can guess that "white male" is placed atop the list of likely attributes of potential perpetrators. A white male is also most likely to be a serial murderer.
Truthfully, there is nothing in the genetic composition of a race that dictates social behavior. The real danger is that similar groups of people tend to share common cosmologies. If an ethnic group (pygmies for example) adopts an evil practice (cannibalism) in their world view, one may rightly call them backwards and savage - not because they are animists or short or black or from a different part of the globe, but because they have chosen to dine on human flesh. Terrorists are, overwhelmingly, Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40 and from Middle Eastern ethnicities. If there doesn't exist a genetic predisposition to terrorism in the genes of peoples of the Tigres and Euphrates, then it must be their shared belief system - Islam.
If you are a young Islamic Arab male, you fit the profile for 19 of 19 terrorists of September 11th and you should be prepared to face additional security in airports.
Myth #3: Part of the FBI's failure on September 11th was lack of Arab or Muslim agents.
This laughable idea comes from the spin machine of the FBI's restructuring. Director Mueller has announced an Arab-American/Muslim affirmative action hiring policy as a part of the new proactive FBI. What Mueller or Attorney General Ashcroft have not done is explain exactly how having stuffy white-bread types at the Bureau led to the success of the attacks. If anything, there is evidence that just the opposite is the case.
FBI counter-terrorism special agent-turned-whistleblower Robert Wright has related an episode of some import. Wright asserts that while investigating possible Islamic terrorist activities, a Muslim special agent refused to wear an undercover wire, stating that "Muslims don't record other Muslims." Mueller and Ashcroft have not addressed this claim.
Uncooperative Islamic FBI agents aside, the FBI does not receive the lion's share of the blame for the incidents of September 11th. That honor goes to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Because of INS's incompetence, the United States is overrun with illegal immigrants - some are past terrorists, some are potential terrorists.
Myth #4: We must ally the "moderate" Muslims.
The truth be told, we don't understand who's who in the world of Islam. President Bush trotted out Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi as the imam of "peaceful Islam." However it wasn't long before Tantawi was advocating the suicide bombers in Israel.
Even Mullah Omar calls himself a "moderate" Muslim, in that his Taliban regime did nothing more nor less than is called for in the Koran. With causuistries like that, Omar should move to Washington. After all, the FBI is hiring.
C.T. Rossi comments on contemporary culture for the Free Congress Foundation.
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I pretty much agree with Moshe Feiglin except that he said Christianity and Islam were the daughters of Judaism. Wrong! Christianity in its true form should be a branch which doesn't exalt itself above nor replace Judaism. Islam is of the devil and is rising to be the enemy of the people of God to try them in the fire. To yield a hair to Islamic lies and seduction is to oppose the Ruler of the Universe and provoke Him to the max.
Ecumenicism, Pluralism, Ceasefire, Disarmament, Flatteries, Tolerance, Multiculturalism, Diversity, Compromise, Unity, Cooperation, "Peace and Security" are all tools of the enemy used to defeat America and the West. That enemy is Satan manifested as Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Globalism, New World Order, the Antichrist (and there be many antichrists) and false religion in any form, including Islam. "Peace and Security" is what brought you Homeland SECURITY! Don't you feel secure?
Some of the words in the Thesaurus indicate: falsehood, sophistry, false reasoning. We'll accept your addition.
This is all attributable to the moderate imbeciles that are supposedly in charge of protecting our nation.
It sure is frustrating that so few can face this cold fact.
Nice to see you're still around.
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I'm curious as to how you would go about "going after Islam"?
Yes, we must. This is a basic fact. There's no way we can go to war with 1,000,000,000 Muslims and expect to win.
Such a war would last decades, cause catastrophic destruction, and be a great mistake. Unfortuanately, so much is about letting off steam these days, rather than making the best choices for action.
Terrorism in this case refers to the present, indisputable, overwhelming (after 9/11) Islamic threat. But you knew that, didn’t you?
Myth #2: Profiling is an evil to be avoided at all costs.
We just have to tiptoe that fine line between due diligence and extra inspection based on a consistent (this is where the drug war lost it) set of known profiles, and treating an innocent citizen as if he were a criminal just because of ethnicity.
We are currently treating all innocent citizens as if they were criminals, for fear of “discriminating” against those who obviously, by ethnicity or actions, merit inspection. If a crime were committed on your block, I’m sure you’d approve if the police arrested the whole neighborhood, rather than discriminate.
Myth #3: Part of the FBI's failure on September 11th was lack of Arab or Muslim agents.
Wrong target. I'd say it was a lack of Muslim CIA operatives. The cells were already formed to be set up in the U.S., so I doubt having more Muslim domestic agents would have done us much good. We needed to nail those suckers at the source.
So you don’t believe that attempting to infiltrate cells, many of which are suspected by experts to be affiliated with Saudi-funded mosques in the U.S., is worth the effort? And you are so naïve to believe that these “cells” are not capable of acting on their own, or spiriting money and materials into this country, on their own? As far as “sources” go, our border-protection and immigration policies are so lax, we can’t even be certain of our ability to prevent the “sources” from settling right here in the good ol’ USA.
Myth #4: We must ally the "moderate" Muslims.
Yes, we must. This is a basic fact. There's no way we can go to war with 1,000,000,000 Muslims and expect to win. We have to get the vast majority to live peacefully with us and help put pressure on those who won't.
What the author is referring to here is our lack of ability, or willingness, to identify “moderate” Muslims, as evidenced by the administration’s alliances with radical American muslim groups and leaders. In the area of states, we ally ourselves with Saudi Arabia, a nation to which all roads of terrorism lead. No, we can’t go to war with a billion Muslims, but when we refuse to take the politically and fiscally correct blinders off, we create a situation where “moderate” Muslims are given no voice, while militant Islam flourishes under these so-called leaders.
Your "Christian" comment is just stupid. From the assassination of Robert Kennedy to the Olympic murders in Munich to the attempt to kill the Pope to the Achille Lauro to the murder of 80 tourists at Luxor to every attack during the Clinton administration...MUSLIMS, radical, insane, 70 virgin-lusting MUSLIMS have been the murderers. There are even muslim tenacles to the McVeigh bombing, so take your disinformation back over to wherever you slithered out of and give us some credit for common sense.
Fact: Profiling is a part of my Daily Life.
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