Hyping a phantom "backlash"

Denver Post ^ | 11/11/2009 | Vincent Carroll

[neverdem]

Don't hold your breat for the "backlash." It's time for Gen. Casey to retire.

Common Sense Says Major Hasan Was a Terrorist

By Ed Koch

Who didn't think that Hasan was a terrorist once they heard his Arabic name? Everthing else was just more confirmation.

Ed Koch is going to be persona non grata in rat circles.

[Califreak]

At this point, I’m guessing that they would probably love to have this backlash that will never happen.

It would be a perfect excuse for martial law.

It would fit their MO too.

They do these kinds of things in the most offensive manner possible in order to pour salt on the wound and fan our flames of outrage.

[jessduntno]

"Nearly a week after the Fort Hood massacre, the anti- Muslim backlash that our leaders and some in the media feared remains a no-show. No mobs of braying bigots marching on mosques; no calls for banning Muslims from the military; no anti-Muslim legislation being drafted in Congress or state capitals; no spate of attacks on Muslim students, shop owners, or neighborhoods."

Dang, should we start organizing? Hate to see a crisis go unexploited...

[skeeter]

A muslim tore a crucifix from a shopper’s neck while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in a SoCA mall yesterday... does that count as “backlash”?

[r9etb]

Reading some of the posts around here you’d expect to see some of that “backlash.” I guess there are lot of FReepers who type a lot bigger than they act. Which is a good thing.

[Windflier]

"Casey escalated this baseless rhetoric, claiming "it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here."

Diversity? Whatever happened to E Pluribus Unum, you dolt?

[randomhero97]

Unfortunately, that’s the very reason we are losing.

[eaglesiniowa]

And no need to imagine what the backlash would have been in Islamic countries if one of ours had infiltrated and then murdered 14 - yes i included the unborn - of theirs. These sick SOBs in charge need to get their respective heads out of their 4th point of contact, but then that too will never happen like this non-existent backlash.

[eaglesiniowa]

Excellent. I’m with you, but then i’m a veteran who might be an extremist - did you catch that Holer?

[Envisioning]

Reading some of the posts around here you’d expect to see some of that “backlash.” I guess there are lot of FReepers who type a lot bigger than they act. Which is a good thing.

When there is a "backlash", everyone will know it.

[jessduntno]

“Excellent. I’m with you, but then i’m a veteran who might be an extremist - did you catch that Holer?”

Extremist alert...get me Eric the Red...

[nascarnation]

The Baraqqis and SCM have taken the strawman argument to the next level.

I’m so sick of hearing “some people say”

[r9etb]

Unfortunately, that’s the very reason we are losing.

Fortunately, most of us are still Americans, and we can recognize and dismiss loser comments like yours.

[randomhero97]

Just to let you know dipsh!t, backlash doesn’t have to be in a physical form. You go ahead and keep your head in the sand, sewer, or where ever you put it.

[r9etb]

Well, lah dee dah.... little fella got upset, did he?

[andy58-in-nh]

We've all seen this film before, right?

Every time a fanatical Muslim extremist kills a bunch of innocent Americans, the Blame America First industry goes into high dudgeon, denying the obvious motivations of the perpetrator and warning darkly against "reaction" or "backlash" on the part of the victims, who (let us be honest) they don't truly view as victims at all.

Denial is their modus operandi. The real enemy is (take your pick): racism, harassment, pre(!)-traumatic stress disorder, emotional problems, stress; whatever most perfectly deflects blame from the killer and reassigns it to the victims.

Say what you will about Radical Islam - no one hates America more than "Progressive" Americans, and none are more responsible for our vulnerability to terror, including that to which we have already been subject, and that to which we almost certainly will be.

[randomhero97]

Not really, but thanks for asking. Most of us recognize internal and external threats. The whole "getting along" thing doesn't seem to be working out so much.

A good start would be to stop importing "refugees" from muslim countries and pulling visas. That's the backlash I want to see happen.

[TurtleUp]

Every time I hear a possible “anti-Muslim backlash” discussed, I see a whole bunch of dead Christians and not a single Muslim being treated differently from the rest of us except perhaps for receiving more deference.

[Nuc1]

"The imam whom Major Hasan made contact with is an American citizen born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents. He wrote on Monday on his English-language Web site that Major Hasan was 'a hero.' The cleric said, 'He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people'"

The money quote. Americans are not his people. Islam is not a religion.

[TChad]

It would be a shame — as great a tragedy as this was — it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well."

I can't get Casey's words out of my head. He sets a value on the lives of those under his command, that can somehow be measured in units of diversity.

Casey must have thought the world of Hasan, and probably still does: Hasan is just as diverse today as he ever was.