You know a thought struck me this morning.
Both you and USF have experience living in an islamic country. In college (in Australia) I had a few good friends from Malaysia, who were ethnically Chinese (and catholic). They basically had to come to Australia, because of the discrimination they were put through by the Malay's.
Perhaps, living in a society where one has had to witness dhimmitude first hand, makes one particularly sensitive when it regards this particular issue. One recognizes the patterns and the signs, and they are frightfully familiar.
Having personally witnessed Western Europe in general, and perhaps Scandinavia in particular starting to go down this path for the last decade or so, it is distressing to see the United States cowed when the islamics throw one of their familiar temper tantrums.
I think only last year, a Norwegian journalist was targeted for writing an inappropriate article regarding islamic women. However, they ended up beating up the wrong man.
Similarly, we just had the Swedish pastor who recently had to get police protection after speaking about Mohammed (calling him a pedofile). Personally, I was recently told in no uncertain terms what would happen should I consider writing something disrespectful of Mohammed, by a Muslim collegue. Several leading politicians are living with death threats...
There is no doubt, that these threats and this intimidation has already seriously affected the public debate. In Sweden, there is NO debate whatsoever. Freedom is being lost little by little, piece by piece.
It is a rather frightening spectacle to behold.
When you understand what their goals are, and how they think, you realize the little day to day battles they win, which may not seem significant to most westerners and barely raises an eyebrow in the MSM, mean everything to the islamofascists. In their eyes, it encourages and legitimizes their "struggle" even more.
At times I feel cursed, like the mythical Cassandra, who could see what was going to happen and warn against it, but whose warnings go unheeded.
Most Muslims know their ideology can not withstand scrutiny, and "airing" the simple truth about Islam or its perverted and genocidal founder, for the outside world to know is so humiliating for them and their cult that they know the will loose vast amounts of followers if this goes unchecked. Islam can not stand the truth. They know it.
The strategy the Imams and the "true believers" use is to hijack the words of legitimate movements for civil rights and (ab)use emotionally manipulative words like "hate" or "racist" by inserting them in their complaints just about every time they have a gripe, knowing now effective this can be in silencing their critics in the West where "political correctness" has run out of control.
Once the achieve this to use as a cover, or if their numbers reach critical mass in the west, they will promote the harsher elements of their agenda with few obstacles in their way.
It's up to every one of us to stop this.