Anti-Muslim "Racism"?

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | November 22, 2005 | Daniel Pipes

[BulletBobCo]

Pause a moment and take the following test:

In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Norwegians from Ballard;
(b) Elvis;
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy;
(b) Crazed feminists screeching that being able to throw a grenade
beyond its own burst radius was an unfair and sexist requirement
in basic training;
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Luca Brazzi, for not being given a part in "Godfather 2;"
(b) The Tooth Fairy;
(c) Butch and Sundance who had a few sticks of dynamite left over
from the train thing
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers;
(b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wee Willie's women problems;
(c) the WWF, to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless;"
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

October 12, 2000, 17 US sailors lost their lives on the USS Cole and this was done by:
a) That Purple Teletubbie
b) Gary Condit
c) LA Crips street gang
d) Muslim extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

December 2000 a person tries to light a shoe bomb on a commercial jetliner and this was done by:
a) Mother Theresa
b) an Italian guy from New York City named "Giacomo"
c) hard working Hispanic farm workers
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed by:
(a) Bugs Bunny,
(b) the Supreme Court of Florida trying to outdo their attempted
hijacking of the 2000 Presidential election;
(c) Mr. Bean
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

[Convert from ECUSA]

[TexasRepublic]

I'm a realist, not a racist.

[brownsfan]

"A couple years back I was labelled a 'racist' because I put forth my idea that any new immigrants that came to Canada should learn to speak English and stop speaking their native tongue everywhere they go."

I guess the left has installed the same hot button in Canada. As we both know, language and race are not the same thing.
I think you'd agree that seeking a common language is a good thing, and about as far from racism as you can get.
But the left keeps beating the same drum, and amazingly, they still get people to listen.

[Harrius Magnus]

"I'm a realist, not a racist.
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I think the author was implying just that: The new meaning for racism is based in revisionist (false) history, and is therefore unconcerned with truth when it renders its meaning. In fact, since truth is so often in opposition to the "new racism," a realist, at best, is a distraction, and at worst, a super-racist.
Like you, my friend, I would be considered the Lex Luthor of racists. Booh! hehehe... (evil tone).

[Ashamed Canadian]

You said it. I was shunned by a whole group of people for this, even though I myself offered up the example of my own Grandparents who came from Eatern Europe in the 30s, and learned to speak their new country's language. While they still spoke in the Slavic tongue at home, they spoke English when out in public and when doing business.

But this didn't fly with the lefties I was around at the time, most probably because I'm white and the immigrants whom I was complaining about were a group of Mexicans who had come up to Canada, had been here a couple of years and still could not speak the language.