Posted on 09/12/2010 10:23:11 AM PDT by thecodont
For a glimpse of how venomous and debased the discourse about Islam has become, consider a blog post in The New Republic this month. Written by Martin Peretz, the magazine’s editor in chief, it asserted: “Frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims.”
Mr. Peretz added: “I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment, which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse.”
Thus a prominent American commentator, in a magazine long associated with tolerance, ponders whether Muslims should be afforded constitutional freedoms. Is it possible to imagine the same kind of casual slur tossed off about blacks or Jews? How do America’s nearly seven million American Muslims feel when their faith is denounced as barbaric?
This is one of those times that test our values, a bit like the shameful interning of Japanese-Americans during World War II, or the disgraceful refusal to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe.
It would have been natural for this test to have come right after 9/11, but it was forestalled because President George W. Bush pushed back at his conservative ranks and repeatedly warned Americans not to confuse Al Qaeda with Islam.
Now that Mr. Bush is no longer in the White House, nativists are back on the warpath. Some opponents of President Obama are circulating bald-faced lies about him that are also scurrilous attacks on Islam itself. One e-mail bouncing around falsely accuses Mr. Obama of lying and adds, “His Muslim faith says it’s okay to lie.”
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There is such a thing as fraud, misrepresentation of evil terror cults, prostitution houses promoting whores to nuisance and terror levels, and government islamic liberal fraud, AND IT AINT FREE SPEECH.
Your new tolerant liberalism siding with terror. Good thing their trash values are now being packed alongside islamic terror. We needed that verification. Thank you Zero, thank you lamestream media, thank you communists, thank you liberals, for all of you making that point clear now.
what was the Muslim population on 9/11/01???
and how they been able to grow it so fast??
Nicholas Kristof played a major role in the unjustified hounding of Steven Hatfill (Kristof decided he was the person responsible for the anthrax killings shortly after the 9/11 attacks). Hatfill was innocent but went through hell because of Kristof and a few others.
Why do I find the need to post this so often today?
Tolerance is the last and only virtue of the completely immoral society.
Muslims have had many chances to condemn those who were murdering in their name.
But...
They only blamed those being murdered...
That’s all I need to know.
LMFAO
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