Thursday, March 10, 2011
Political correctness kills
I have to repeat it although it's an obvious truth, Islam is problematic. The majority of Muslims are not terrorists but the majority of terrorists are Muslims. Radical Muslims are not the whole of Islam but they are a substantial minority and substantial minorities can cause problems. Today is the first day of Congressman Peter King's hearings on homegrown radicals, you may have heard this Congressional investigation is controversial and Peter King has been called all kinds of names and well, let me just say again, Islam is problematic. I think it's a matter of emphases, everyone knows there are Muslim terrorists in the world but the liberal crowd wants to stress the peaceableness of most Muslims (not hard to understand) whereas conservatives are troubled by we don't really know who's who, who's the good guy and who's the bad guy. Seems to me though the good Muslims may want to take back their religion first before they complain and I know I'll hear the usual points by soapster, Satyavati and surely Shaw but my whole thing is the situation is complicated so why can't we understand that?
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Lots of shit is problematic and complicated but we don't run around having McCarthyist hearings about it.
ReplyDeleteWhat's more, the left/right same bullshit debt, police state, war machine party can beat the subject of radical Muslims; finatical Islam to death but as a whole it doesn't hold a candle to the magnitude of our economic woes which will (as the founders rightly proclaimed) destroy this country from within.
Let me deconstruct this: you have doubts about 9/11 and what really happened and so maybe radical Islam isn't the problem. I'm not pro-Muslim, I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm just against political correctness in whatever form. If King's investigation bears on the truth then they are not McCarthyist.
ReplyDelete"everyone knows there are Muslim terrorists in the world but the liberal crowd wants to stress the peaceableness of most Muslims"
ReplyDeleteHumm, then I guess it's the Roman Catholics we should be profiling.
You don't profile based on race, color or creed.
ReplyDeleteYou profile based on behavior and mannerisms.
Soap while I agree with you on many things on Islam we're worlds apart. There's no way around profiling and my thing is the pc'ers oversimplify the problem of terrorism and that won't keep us safe. Right you are Mal yet again.
ReplyDeleteActually Catholics were under lots of suspicion and closely watched for a very very long time, because their loyalty/patriotism was considered to be tainted. The fact that Roman Catholics bear allegiance to the Pope was considered a serious national security risk. You can read Protestant books from the early 1900's and on that get really blatant about all this. And there's no coincidence we've not had more Catholic presidents.
ReplyDeleteThere's always going to be a group that gets the shit end of the stick whether they deserve it or not. Unfortunately for the Muslim community, their 'otherness' makes it more convenient for non-Muslims to lump them together and call them all radicals and terrorists. Were they a white, American/Northern European religious group that had radical/violent offshoots, we would hasten to separate the fringies from the rest of them. Just the way it is.
Ted Kascinski (sp?) wasn't an Arab, Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh weren't Arabs, Charles Whitman wasn't an Arab, Seung-Hui Ch wasn't an Arab, shall I continue?.....
ReplyDeleteThe point Z is that while there are radical Muslims doing radical things, those radical things are occuring and being further inflamed in Middle Eastern countries and for a very simple reason which has everything to do with the American footprint in the region. If Palestinians, Israelis, Chechens, Somalies, Tunisians, Egyptians, et al want to war with each other and let that be their future then let them. When two kids are throwing rocks at each other it stands to reason that any bystander may wind up getting hit.
I offer the aforementioned list to illustrate that radical Muslims pose no greater threat to citizens within this country then any one else. If you truly believe that, then you are quite honestly buying into the Federal Government's propaganda and the major MSM/Corporate selling of it.
Even in Mexico where drug cartels are running rampant and inspecting vehicles on this side of the border and killing border agents and US citizens the border remains largely porous. And where soon Mexican trucks will be roaming US highways lending greater rise to the NAU (Bloomberg: http://www.infowars.com/u-s-proposes-reopening-highways-to-mexican-trucks-through-pilot-program/)
Hmmm...violence in the ME. Violence in Mexico. Mexican flags going up at schools in US accompanied by chants of taking portions of America back for Mexico. A huge Mexican population in America vs. Muslim....
Bear in mind I don't subscribe to the hysteria of the Mexican takeover either but what I am pointing out is the hilarity of virtually the same exact equation applied towards the Mexican situation seems a bit under reported to me in favor of the radical Muslim hysteria.
It's early and I've not yet had my Victory coffee so I'm not altogether certain my point got through there. Lemme know if it is not.
But you do realize soapie of the supposed connection between Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh and al-Qaeda, something Gore Vidal was talking about at the time. Bottom line I don't think Peter King is wasting his time invesigating this. As for the Mexican drug situation The Newshour with Jim Lehrer has done great reporting on this.
ReplyDeleteI think you mean Al CIAda.
ReplyDeleteAnd, in Mr. Lehrer's reporting, what say he about those guns in Mexico?
It was some reporter, not Jim Lehrer though and I just thought the coverage was very informative. I don't recall the gun angle being covered but one point struck me. The Mexicans down there kind of resent us Americanos since if we didn't have this insatiable appetite for drugs in this country the Mexicans wouldn't be suffering with all this drug violence and crime right now. Even Monterrey that stylish and modern city in Mexico has been hit, it's gone downhill from its former glory.
ReplyDeleteI remember during the 1980s this same Peter King would go on talk shows and passionately argue in FAVOR of terrorists and their cause.
ReplyDeleteHe's not the man for this.
That old IRA skeleton. Maybe he isn't the man for it but I think the hearings are necessary.
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