[Brilliant]

They need a little intellectual honesty in Islam. al Jazeera needs a facelift.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

If you say Islam isn't always a religion of peace, the Islamicists will kill you.

[steel_resolve]

I really can't say this enough: Despite the atrocity of events like 9/11, Western civilization has not been pushed to the wall. But put us in a fight or flight situation and we will crush the entire Muslim civilization if we have to, with every means at our disposal, including nukes. When it comes down to us or them for survival, it's going to be us, and they're going to cry their eyes out as we rain death and destruction down on their cities and populations. Be careful of what you wish for Muslims, you may not like the outcome.

[mugs99]

Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge in Bozeman, Montana, awaiting their flights.


One is an American Indian passing through from Lame Deer. Another is a Cowboy on his way to Billings for a livestock show and the third passenger is a fundamentalist Arab student, newly arrived at Montana State University from the Middle East.


Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim and the conversation falls into an uneasy lull.


The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine table and tips his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face. The wind outside is blowing tumbleweeds around, and the old windsock is flapping; but still no plane comes.

Finally, the American Indian clears his throat and softly he speaks, "At one time here, my people were many, but sadly, now we are few."


The Muslim student raises an eyebrow and leans forward, "Once my people were few," he sneers, "and now we are many. Why do you suppose that is?"


The Montana cowboy shifts his toothpick to one side of his mouth and from the darkness beneath his Stetson says in a drawl, "That's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet, but I do believe it's a-comin'."
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[BlessedBeGod]

And now this, too:

Mozart Opera Canceled for Muhammad Scene

[SF Republican]

and Art, notice the recent Berlin surrenders opera post. A Jewish scholar friend of mine 10 years ago said the Jews and the Christians had their reforms, when Islam does, it will be very very bloody.

[SlowBoat407]

Brigitte Gabriel is on target with her book, "Because They Hate". It just came out last week, and it's already stirring the pot.

[longtermmemmory]

Germany banned Mozart.

[flyingtabby]

Sounds a lot like Bill Clinton. You mention the true history of things such as the lack of dealing with Bin Laden to Clinton, and he goes totally nuclear on you........ hmmmmmm... maybe Bill didn't go after those guys because he knew they had a lot in common?

[quantfive]

Their is only one major obstacle that requires real thought and strategy on overcoming this problem. The Muslims believe that we all must convert to Islam to have a better world.

They must be convinced either through force or arms and/or education that all men have the right to believe whatever they want as long as it does not interfere with another mans free will. We can publically broadcast to the world that we will be the first to initiate such a policy (since it exists in our Constitution anyways) but that any offender of the policy is labeled a terrorist against humanity and is now a target.

[Tolik]

James Lileks:

...This is a new twist: Now history itself cannot be discussed. Since it's difficult to predict what else will enflame the devout, Islam has to be treated with unusual deference, like a 3-year-old child with anger management problems.

But it's not what we say that truly offends. It's what we are. The West's lack of interest in joining the Ummah is an affront in itself, and we broadcast our sins in High Infidelity. If you believed that the West's apostasy was an affront to God, you'd spend your leisure hours torching straw popes, too.

...At the risk of making a generalization: The secular right seems more tolerant of Christianity, and skeptical toward large swaths of Islam. The secular left often seems annoyed and contemptuous towards American religion — unless the pastor on the dais insists Jesus would have been a board member of Planned Parenthood — and oddly protective of Islam. Not because they believe in it; heavens, no. Some progressives are simply besotted by any civilization not their own.

Others have no vocabulary to oppose its more radical manifestations, because, well, we cannot judge other cultures. (Unless they're in the American South.) Others are less concerned by Islamicists because they have greater dislike for the people who oppose radical Islam, who are probably bigots.

...Thus the most enlightened and well-intentioned beneficiaries of the human civilization excuse or wish away the words of their most implacable opponents. It'll take something drastic to change their minds.

...In the meantime, we will learn to say less and less about more and more. As the grim cliche has it: If you say Islam isn't always a religion of peace, the Islamicists will kill you. This doesn't make them hypocrites, of course. The grave is a very peaceful place.

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