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Monday June 12, 2006
The whole kerfuffle between Dallas Muslim leader Mohamed Elibiary and Your Working Boy occasioned a visit to my files here, to go over a printout of e-mail traffic on a Dallas Muslim listserv dedicated to criticizing The Dallas Morning News....
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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There's nothing crunchy or soggy about this: it's just plain wrong and fortunate you nipped it in the bud. The "banana in your tailpipe" comment is outrageous to say the least. That there is a effectual bloc of people out there who seem determined to provoke us into the very worst sort of sectarian politics disturbs me to no end.>
Though it might seem a strange thing to bring up, as I read this I was thinking of these lines from a SOUTH PARK episode on the recent Muhammad controversy:
Cartman: I'm going to use fear to get them to do what I want.
Bart: Isn't that like, terrorism?
Cartman: ...No, it isn't LIKE terrorism. It IS terrorism.
If they don't want people to jump to conclusions about them, they shouldn't make it so easy. God bless!>
Too much. All I can say.>
It's clear that when critics of Islamo-facism and those who support it, passively or otherwise, take the Islamo-facists seriously, they return the favor.
Obviously they wouldn't be trying to discredit you if they didn't fear the truth and the impact of what you say.>
"Any statement made against the community in general places us in danger of violent attacks."
Note also the projection going on here on the list moderator's part. We tend to assume about others what is true about ourselves -- in this case, this man assumes other communities are as prone to violent reaction as his own.>
This " I don't care about Truth, how dare you criticize us/who are you to criticize us?" mindset of many in the Muslim community is amazing - and when I read things like this, I can't help but wonder just how pervasive this mindset is ...>
Rod,
As someone who was on that thread much longer then you, I find it comical that you're painting yourself a victim here. John, that Muslim convert you spoke of, was right in ways you continue to prove to the rest of the Dallas Muslim community daily as you conduct your ignorent and self-appointed war against "Islamofacism". Go back and reread your language from after 9/11 and tell me if any of those hate filled diatribes can be printed today. The answer is obviously no, because America is walking away from your perspective of whom we're at war with. You my friend are an "Islamophobe" because you can't get away being anti-any other group right now. The sun is setting on your ways, and I'm sure you're seeing the writing on the wall. Why otherwise would you turn a simple comical sentance into a cry wolf situation? Bananagate my left foot.
Peace!>
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