[flowerplough]

“a failure of empathy”?

According to Barack Obama, the September 11th madness that drove terrorists to turn passenger jets into manned cruise missiles aimed at our centers of finance, government and military power “grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.”

Sen. Obama advised caution and warned of overreacting. “We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad,” he wrote. “We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle Eastern descent.”

[goldstategop]

As Steyn notes, the Jews in Chabad House weren't tortured and murdered in a dispute over Kashmir or over Bush's foreign policy. They were tortured and murdered to advance Islam. Somehow, every one keeps missing it. They die for a fanatical ideology and its somehow become indelicate to mention it affronts all our civilized virtues. The other side may be many things but being tolerant and accepting of all cultures isn't one of them. What happened to the Chabad couple is a refutation of the liberal shibboleth that Muslims want to be like every one else. No - they don't.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Dick Bachert]

Obama failed to say that many of his cousins are muzzies.