The "conservatives" continue their make-believe opposition to the Islam threat

View From the Right ^ | May 5, 2008 | Lawrence Auster

[JCG]

Islam is NOT a political persuasion.

At worst it is a hate cult. At best it is a religion.

Actually it is all three of these.  Islam encompasses everything in a Muslim's life.

Either way, no rational human would want it in their midst....given its adherents predilection for misogyny and violence against anyone who is different.

Spot on agreement.



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[rmlew]

From Mr. Auster.
"The poor fellow doesn't understand that I was constructing a fictional situation as a metaphor of our Islam situation. "

[lonestar67]

Your blog rightly identifies the defeat of conservatism.

The defeat is an intellectual rather than actual defeat.

President Bush has been hugely successful in his global conservative and profoundly American movement.

Your movement is a dead end and you can see it.

The wall will not stop fake IDs. The hijackers were here legally.

The Nazis were nationalists and almost any reading you do on the question points to that answer.

I am comfortable with Neo Con. Paleo Cons are wrong.

The American soldier fighting in Iraq and showing American values is at the forefront of what is necessary for conservatism to prevail. The effort to reinvent American conservatism as necessarily introverted is doomed.

It was inevitable that as President Bush did the patriots work to defend America’s value that “conservatives” would rationalize the excess intellectual workload into the re packaged isolationism that says that Globalization is the real threat and greater introspection will make it all go away.

I do not belleve that. History is proving the President correct despite the desperate efforts by liberal and conservative reactionaries to LOL him into the corner of shame.

I am not ashamed of President Bush. The faux conservatives deserve John McCain and the further selling out of their views. Standing with the President during war time was more important than the nonsense being presently defended.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

My point is that the metaphor doesn't hold water....so to speak.

The nationalistic fervor of Germans under the thrall of the Nazis was one thing.
But under it all there were still fairly rational human beings who would have been horrified if they knew the full extent of Hitler's Final Solution.

It cannot compare to that which is Islam. Underneath that veil there are no humans. There are animals of such vile murderous rage that we would wish we'd never lifted the veil.

I understand what the author was attempting. I say it is a poor metaphor.