Sarah Palin: "We are not at war with Islam. This is a war within Islam, where a small minority of violent killers seeks to impose their view on the vast majority of Muslims who want the same things all of us want: economic opportunity, education, and the chance to build a better life for themselves and their families."
Charles, not exactly sure what your point is. BC isn’t arguing that Governor Palin hates Muslims. She, like most of us, embraces the vast majority of Mulsim-Americans, who like Japanese-Americans during WWII, “want the same things all of us want.” BC’s point is that embracing them as a Americans is far different that kowtowing to them—that is, forcing children in public schools not only to learn about Islam (why this is not an establishment clause issue, I’m not quite sure) but also to be ill-disposed toward Christianity. The distinction is self-evident.
Great piece Brices!
Palin is and is and typical of what passes for ignorant politicians in our party. Trying ohso hard not to offend muslims with the idiotic statement that there is a small minority of muslims that want us dead. That’s like saying that all most communists are not socialists and only a small minority want socialism. Or to take the logic even further that there were moderate nazis during WW II that we could have approached. It ignores that the problem with islam is the ideology of islam itself. Pretending that the doctrine is not the problem is simply continuing to commit suicide..