Today in Dallas, jury selection gets underway in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, an Islamic charity alleged by the feds to have been a fundraising front for Hamas. Predictably, CAIR has undertaken a national campaign to wake up the nation to the terrifying threat of Islamophobia. Sorry, I'm not buying it. Excerpt from my column today:
According to witnesses, what did one of the Glasgow would-be terror bombers scream as he emerged out of his burning SUV?(a) "Freebird! Freebird!"
(b) "Allah! Allah!"
(c) "How dare you ask such an Islamophobic question?!"
The correct answer is, of course, (b), as the accused terrorists fancied themselves holy warriors. But as far as the Muslim victim lobby and its media fellow travelers are concerned, the answer is now and ever shall be (c). In their self-pitying view, only bigots notice such things.
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," said George Orwell. Obviously – and, six years after 9/11, bizarrely – we aren't struggling hard enough.
With the Holy Land Foundation trial getting under way in Dallas, the usual suspects are dragging out the baseless Islamophobia accusations again. No one can deny that there are people who hate Muslims – and shame on them for it. The Islamophobia mantra, though, is intended not to inform public discussion but to discourage it through moral bullying and blunderbuss.
You, too, would want to discourage critical inquiry and discussion if you were a member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the North American Islamic Trust – all named by federal prosecutors as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case. Not only have leading members of these organizations been closely associated with extremist ideology, all three groups have deep roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, a powerful movement working globally to establish Islamic rule.
The Brotherhood's motto? "Allah is our goal; the Messenger is our model; the Koran is our constitution; jihad is our means; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our inspiration."
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If you can't tell the difference between a Muslim suicide bomber and a Christian televangelist, you're beyond my ability to help.
Nice dodge, Rod. The only difference between the Mullahs and Dobson, Falwell, Robertson and the like are that the Mullahs' followers actually have enough faith in their religion to act on it instead of give lip service.
Maybe *that's* what bugs the Religious Right about Islam - that their followers actually - ya know - follow it?
Wow - I may be on to something here.
Islam says "kill the infidel," and Islamists actually do that. Christianity says "love your enemies" but Christians, for the most part, don't do that.
Is that why y'all are afraid of them?
"If you can't tell the difference between a Muslim suicide bomber and a Christian televangelist, you're beyond my ability to help."
I suspected as much from you, Rod. You must believe it's fine for Christians to kill innocent people with cruise missiles and stealth bombers. The only real difference is that the Muslim suicide bomber has a more tactile approach to religious murder.
"Nice dodge, Rod. The only difference between the Mullahs and Dobson, Falwell, Robertson and the like are that the Mullahs' followers actually have enough faith in their religion to act on it instead of give lip service."
Exactly.
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