Close Down Those Embassies. In so doing we'll be killing two birds with one stone.

American Spectator ^ | 9.20.12 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr

[IbJensen]

WASHINGTON -- Allow me to offer a suggestions as to how our government might avoid the slaughter of our personnel in diplomatic installations around the Islamic world by mobs.

It seems to me most probable that insults to the Prophet Muhammad appear regularly in the modern world. After all, insults against revered figures in the world's other major religions pop up all the time. As for Islam, a book such as Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses can be published anywhere. A thirteen-minute anti-Islamic video can arrive on YouTube, and my guess is there are others that have and will appear there. In some obscure land, far from the major media, a cartoon is published perhaps with the Prophet in an absurd pose. Why not a simple slur on Facebook? Who can control Facebook? Will a slur found there set off the mobs next time? And what constitutes a slur? These Islamic mobs keep changing their standards. What was a minor lapse of taste yesterday becomes a cause for terrible indignation today.

The metamorphosing angers of Islam have been a feature of the modern world for decades. Possibly the first show of anger was in Tehran with the takeover of the American embassy. But I trace Islamic anger back further, at least to Sirhan B. Sirhan, who assassinated the 1968 presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, for some fancied transgression. From all I can tell, the angers of Islam are getting worse. Even with the presidency of Barack Obama, the Nobel Laureate, the angers of Islam have worsened. He began his presidency tendering the olive branch of peace to Islam. Now the Islamic world is afire. Mobs are burning our diplomatic installations in places where moderate Islam reigns, for instance, Tunisia. In Libya unspeakable desecrations take place against us.

[IbJensen]

I agree that we must close down ALL embassies in muslim nations, recall all personnel and demand that muslim embassies in America be shuttered! We can never coexist with adherents of this counterfeit, evil religion that is totally incompatible with Christian and Judaism tenets.

Mosques need to be shut down and as many muslims as can be rounded up should be shuttled off to detention camps (we did it to the Americans of Japanese ancestry as well as many Germans) until they can be deported.

The next idiot politician that stands up and states that diversity is our greatest strength needs to be pelted with pies and rotten fruit!

[cripplecreek]

If this be retreat, let us make the most of it.

[dps.inspect]

So, what this really comes down to is Islam vs the west?... I didn’t think we were at war with Islam, only radical Islam. Problem is there is now now daylight between “Normal” Islam and Radical Islam, its all Islam, and they are at war with a free Western culture... you’d a thought folks would have figured that out after the first 9-11.

[Travis McGee]

My own modest proposal:

How Islam—and the ever-present threat it poses to humanity—could be brought to an end in one, simple step

[Former Proud Canadian]

No more embassies or consular offices. No more visas. No more student visas. Fewer terror suspects.

[LucianOfSamasota]

This only works if we stop Islamic immigration to the US. The 1970 census showed 100,000 Muslims in the US. Today, we have 3.7 million due to preferential immigration status (diversity, refugee, asylum, etc.) When they outnumber us here, they will vote in sharia and we will become them.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t see the point of continuing to deal with them. We aren’t going to win without a true global total war that would have to culminate in a mushroom cloud over Mecca.

[elkfersupper]

This is a deranged culture numbering in the multiple millions. There is no reason to continue dealing with them like they are rational humans.

[unixfox]

And...close down the U.N. and kick those bastards out as well!

[Cyber Liberty]

I like the idea. Question is, do we do it during the hajj, or some time with fewer moon-worshipers in attendance?

[Travis McGee]

It won’t happen at all until Moscow, New Delhi or Tel Aviv is nuked.

NYC and DC could be nuked, and we would not do it.

[Travis McGee]

See #4 and #11.

[Ax]

Can’t happen. As distasteful as it is for us to have our people working in the embassies and consulates in the moslem world, they are irreplaceable platforms for intelligence collection.

[Joe Boucher]

“pies and rotten fruit”?

Get a rope

[krogers58]

If this be retreat, let us make the most of it.

Yes, by all means. With modern weaponry, we could give new meaning to the word scorched earth. It is immoral to sit idly by while these savages develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. We are sentencing our children to horrible deaths, all because we don't have the cajones to do what is necessary to remove this human locust swarm from the earth while we have the means to do so. Since we choose not to take them out, our day will surely come. Let's ask ourselves the simple question, who is the more innocent, our future generation of children and grand children, or these men, women, and children who march through the streets chanting death to America, all the while they are developing the capability to bring their promises to fruition. It isn't a close call in my mind.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“Close Down Those Embassies”

And the UN, too, while you are at it.

[potlatch]

[Former Proud Canadian]

Well, I know. But, how is that intelligence gathering working out? Seemingly, all this intelligence didn't point out that sending the Libyan ambassador to terror central on 9/11 without advance people or security was a mistake. I could have done a better job sitting in Cyprus or Tel Aviv monitoring Arab broadcasts and newspapers and Friday diatribes with a team of translators. Am I'm nobody.

You can gather all the intelligence you want. If the prime consumer of that intelligence is too lazy or distracted or disinterested to look at it, or be briefed, why bother?

[Jabba the Nutt]

I predict, it will first happen in some European country (maybe Greece) that Muslims will be expelled. Marched to the port, put on the ships and sent away.

[Ax]

There is a lot of low-level collecting going on 24/7. Not all of it makes the headlines, and helps to paint a larger picture of what is going on in the country. And speaking of embassies and Canadians, we haven’t forgotten your embassy’s valiant effort back in 1979 to get some of our people out of Teheran.