Posted on 05/04/2010 2:15:12 PM PDT by pissant
We awake to news that after extraordinary police work, investigators have made an arrest in the attempted car bombing of Times Square in New York. Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani native-turned-naturalized-U.S.-citizen, was taken into custody late last night. He was naturalized last year, and shortly thereafter, made a trip to Peshawar, Pakistana hotbed of Islamic terrorist activity and recruitment.
I have read countless reports about the arrest, in newspapers and websites big and small. So far, I have not seen a single mention of his faith. Not a single reference to his being Muslim. Were left to deduce that by his Pakistani ethnicity and name.
Political correctness has stripped us of our ability to be brutally honest about the nature of the threat we face. Its not from a bunch of maniacal Catholics or Jews or Hindus or Buddhists. The lethal threat is coming from radical Muslims. Even after September 11, even after repeated terror attacks and attempts here and abroad, we still cannot be truthful and outspoken about it? Pathetic.
This suicidal inability to call the enemy what it is comes straight from the top: the President will not go anywhere near the words Islam and terror together. His administration has contorted itself into all kinds of politically correct gymnastics to avoid making the connection, going so far as to term acts of terror as manmade disasters and the fight against it as overseas contingency operations.
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Just another isolated incident.
Yep. Nothing to see here.
Damned Pakistani Scientologists!
Just one of 30+ isolated incidents in the last year of bewildered young men who went to train in the middle east and then, for no apparent reason, turned against America.
Oh, my Lord. Do you mean to say that we are (gasp) PRO-FILING when we assume that he may be Muslim and not Amish? (sarc/off)
“...the President will not go anywhere near the words Islam and terror together.”
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Islam and terror have shown to be synonymous.
It should be pointed out to the media that the more they try to pretend that Muslims are not committing 99% of the terrorism in the world, the more the public has to *assume* that Muslims are responsible for ALL terrorist acts.
If the MSM keeps it up, they will be *causing* massive prejudice against Muslims. Eventually even criminals will have to insist that they be identified as “non-Muslims”, lest they suffer public scorn because of the assumption that they are Muslims, because the MSM refuses to say so.
They hope that if they are irrational enough, and evade reality enough, are emotionalistic enough, and drop context enough,the problem will go away by itself.
Boy, were they wrong.
They are really upset about this on the left. MSNBC actually had an anchor come out today stating she was so upset it was Islamic, not a “teabagger”, because people are just SO racist.
You will never win Arabs to your side being the ‘weak horse’.
And even if they hate the ‘strong horse’ they do NOT bet against it.
The League of Amish Assassin Bombers.
It looks like the USA has replaced Israel at the top of their hit list. This also looks like a long run like the Irish and the British now appearing to have run its course.
“Damned Pakistani Scientologists!”
Where’s John Travolta and Tom Cruise?
It was because of his home foreclosure. The MSM said so. It must be true.
Trust me, if he was ANY OTHER religion, it would have been reported extensively. Can’t you just see “Pakistani CHRISTIAN plants bomb”
Allah is Satan and we'd better get louder about it.We SAY this is war, but we act like it's a Monopoly game ... waiting 'til you have all three, or more money before you build.
Damnit ... when I got hit in the schoolyard, I hit back ... immediately.
If the bomber had been a conservative, we'd never hear the end of it.
If the bomber wasn't caught - we'd hear endless stories about how he could have been a middle class, middle aged, conservative.
But he was caught - so we hear nothing that identifies him as a member of the group known as radical Muslims - a group that has killed thousands of Americans. The press is afraid to whisper the name...
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