Posted on 09/08/2010 8:47:19 AM PDT by ventanax5
A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West.
Only the blink of an eye ago, uttering the unpleasant truth that in terms of doctrine there is no such thing as “moderate Islam” resulted in one’s banishment from what our opinion elites like to call the “mainstream,” by which they mean the narrow-minded, viciously defended circle of their own pieties and fictions. You could say it, but your skin had better have an extra coat or two of thick: You were in for a fusillade of rage, the likes of which our candor-phobic elites would never dream of unleashing at our Islamist enemies — no matter how clearly those enemies announced their intention to destroy us.
The fusillade still comes, but now its blows only glance. The elites and their mainstream have been exposed as frauds: Being on the wrong side of enough 70-30 issues will do that to you.
It should never have gotten this far. Sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque neither own the property in question nor possess the means to build and operate the palatial Islamic center they envision. The more light that shines on their record of murky real-estate dealings and the dubious circumstances of their limited stake in the Ground Zero property, the more questions arise. In a more sensible world, those questions would get answered before we plunged into a rancorous public debate. That hasn’t happened, though. In spite of the implacable determination of the mayor (and the attorney general who would be governor) to look the other way, the issue has galvanized the public. What has long bubbled beneath the surface did not need much more heat to boil over.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
*We reject “The Deal”.
The Deal says that if we tippy-toe around Muslim sensibilities and don’t get in their way as they sow the seeds of our eventual destruction, they will calm down and give us a little, temporary peace.
But that is not really true. If we accept this outrage, there will be some new, even more outrageous, provocation soon to follow. They will always take offense and resort to violence, because that is simply what they do.
And at every stage, we will be told that if submit to this one small thing, everything will be fine. But that is a lie, and it always has been.*
LINE IN THE SAND
And they are $250k behind in their property taxes on the half they do own.
Absolutely right. This is going to remain their strategy for as long as we let it work. Either we stop it now, or we stop it later, or we don’t stop it at all. I vote for #1. As I had said in another post, we need to start burning one Koran for every one American flag. We need a consistent response. We need to let whoever is burning an American flag know that THEIR ACTIONS will DIRECTLY result in the burning of a Koran. It’s not the severity of a response, it’s the consistancy. That’s what we need to establish.
I’m not sure I would use Ground Zero as a defining “fault line” between Islam and the West. From a political, economic, or religious standpoint, what exactly is “Western” about Ground Zero and Lower Manhattan, NY?
I've long felt that "Islam is a religion of peace" and "illegal immigrants have rights" only when the U.S. economy is roaring along and the U.S. unemployment rate is around 5%.
When ordinary people are facing distress in their daily lives, they tend not to have the time and patience for the bullsh!t their political leaders try to hand them on a daily basis.
Having over the years succeeded in taking over the educational system and most organs of the major media, and nothing else of consequence, Leftists today proclaim their views and opinions "mainstream", in spite of the fact they are a distinct minority (just as what came to be known in Russia as the "Bolsheviks" (majority) were quite really "Mensheviks" (minority), despite Kerensky's fawning agreement on this important semantic point with Lenin).
We've been down this road before, and we are not impressed, and we're not going to be swayed by the rhetoric.
Our paternalistic "elites" are going to find out point blank just what "mainstream" thought is in America circa 2010 in less than 2 months. In the meantime, I must continue to suppress the urge to barf whenever I encounter this Orwellian perversion our media serves up daily telling us what's "mainstream", when in reality it is no such thing.
My work is cut out for me, but I think I can make it.
CA....
Would be interesting to know if that's the case.
Thanks ventanax5.
Yep, that's the Deal that many folks assumed they were getting when they voted for Obama. They were convinced by the MSM that if Obama were elected, then the whole world, which hated us because of that Cowboy George W. Bush, would love us, and the Muslims wouldn't call us bad names and try to kill us anymore.
Hasn't exactly work out that way, has it?
They may be ignorant medieval goat-ropers, but they know weakness when they see it...
Did I say goat-ropers?
I meant to say goat-rapers... My bad...
“...to get the hell out of our country and don’t come back..”
IMHO, when “We the People” decide it is so...
I have decided..
I’ll treat them better than they treat others, go ahead sell your assets, you have 6 months to leave.. any violence from proclomation will get you deported to Palestine..bye bye..
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