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The Dignitude Problem at the Root of Muslim Rage
Townhall.com ^ | May 5, 2015 | Mark Nuckols

Posted on 05/05/2015 4:11:43 PM PDT by Kaslin

Once again, Muslim religious fanatics are striking out against our values of freedom of speech and open expression. And again, they claim that somehow they have been so deeply offended by cartoons depicting Muhammad that murder and mayhem are somehow justified. At the root of this insane rage against Western civilization is Muslim dignitude.

“Dignitude” is dignity’s shabby imitation, the unfortunate tendency of some people to have an exaggerated sense of their own dignity and to be ready at any moment to be deeply offended at the slightest perceived affront. And among Muslims it is accompanied by a hypocritical double standard: Jews can be compared to dogs and pigs, Christians are commonly called “kafir” (a term meaning someone who can be killed for unbelief), but nobody should dare insult, mock, or in any way criticize the great religion of Islam.

I have been to 17 Muslim countries around the world, spanning from Morocco to Kyrgyzstan. They are all bleak, depressing, and economically underdeveloped and socially backward. The sad fact is that the world’s Muslims don’t really have any genuine accomplishments worth taking pride in. “Ah,” our liberal friends will unfailingly point out, “the Muslims invented algebra.” Well, that was back in the 9th century. The fact is, since their brief heyday a thousand years ago, it’s been mostly downhill for Muslim culture.

Is there any product made in a Muslim country anyone would want to pay cash for? The Al-Tifaahah (Arabic for apple) cell phone? Is there any Muslim university ranked among the world’s elite institutions? Any Muslim artists producing noteworthy art? Any Muslim filmmakers producing great films?

And Muslims are filled with both rage and deep shame at their failure to destroy the state of Israel. In three major wars, tiny Israel thoroughly routed coalitions of Muslim countries with combined populations twenty times larger and more. To put that into perspective, imagine we had attacked Canada three separate times, and they had decisively defeated us each time. Cowardice, corruption, and incompetence have been the hallmarks of modern Muslim armies. Saddam’s mighty Iraqi Army took all of a few weeks to crumble before American military prowess. In the aftermath of their total military defeat, the Iraqis showed skill only at savagely murdering each other and ambushing American troops while hiding behind civilians.

And outright barbarism reigns throughout most of the Muslim world. In Afghanistan a month ago a mob of angry men stomped a young woman to death and set her body on fire simply because she had criticized several fortunetellers plying their trade in a Muslim holy place. In Iran, gay people are hung in public squares for gawkers to watch their grisly executions.

There is a long litany of complaints most Muslims have about the West, especially the United States aka The Great Satan. And anytime the liberals begin to discuss the latest act of radical Islamacist terrorism, after feebly acknowledging the “unfortunate” tragedy, they will inevitably add “but what about their feelings, and was it really necessary to provoke them? blahblahblah.”

One of the biggest whoppers is that we stole their oil, a hoary old myth every Muslim and every good liberal believes. This goes back to the early part of our 20th century, when the Arabs and Iranians were still living in the 14th century. American and British oil companies went by invitation to explore for oil, primarily in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Generous up-front payments and annual royalties were agreed to by all parties, and for the Saudis, Iraqis, and Iranians these monies were a huge and entirely unexpected windfall.

And it’s worth pondering for a minute, just how many centuries would it have taken for these peoples to develop the technology for oil exploration, drilling and refining on their own?

That’s right, about a thousand camel lifetimes is how long.

But of the trillions of dollars in oil revenues collected by the Saudis, Iraqis, and Iranians, most of it has been squandered in wars, supporting terrorism, building useless white elephant projects, huge government bureaucracies, and partying in London discos for the extended families of the sheikhs and the shah.

In short, Muslims have a huge inferiority complex, which they compensate for with hatred of the West, especially America and our ally Israel, and with an outsized sense of constantly enraged dignity at innumerable perceived slights and offenses. Now, I can see the point that portrayals of their prophet are forbidden by their religious and cultural beliefs. Well, fine, so stay in Afghanistan or whatever nasty hole you call home, and if you’re really angry, write an op-ed for the New York Times, they will sympathize with your blighted world view.

But in America, we do believe in freedom of speech and open expression, and that is one of the key reasons why America is not only a remarkably prosperous and free country, but in fact the leading nation in the world. We should resist any temptation to muzzle free speech, including exhibitions of cartoon portrayals of Muhammad, just because some Muslims have a dignitude problem. We should not allow ourselves to be intimidated by anyone nor surrender the basic beliefs and principles that make America great.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: civilizations; islam; muhamed; muslims; violence

1 posted on 05/05/2015 4:11:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
AVOID -- anyone who looks like this:

2 posted on 05/05/2015 4:14:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin
Being willing to cut people's heads off to see Mohammed's will be done, gives them an edge when superior civilizations forget history for a few generations.

There is nothing new here, except our being retarded in regards to the inherent threat built into the DNA of Islam by Satan himself, no matter what name you give him.


3 posted on 05/05/2015 4:15:56 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

It’s a subhuman ideology of death and destruction cleverly disguised as a religion.


4 posted on 05/05/2015 4:15:59 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: BenLurkin
Here is his brother.

How effing stupid or brainwashed does a people have to be to not be aware of this threat?


5 posted on 05/05/2015 4:17:54 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

mohamed was a child rapist.


6 posted on 05/05/2015 4:20:27 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s the same with black gang members and black men in general. I seriously believe that in many cases their rage comes from knowing they have failed, completely and in every category as men.
Instead of placing the blame on mom having them at 14, while being on crack, and dad being nowhere to be found, they project it towards Mr. Whitey in a never ending loop of madness and mindless violence.
At the same time they are given too much time on their hands because the gov gives them a place to live and food to eat. Our depression era parents didn’t have such a luxury and were often too tired to waste time on the nonsense these people do.’
And the ones from those generations who wanted the easy buck, the gangsters etc., usually met the same fates as these characters. But they were the minority, and in quick time, their ethnic brothers and sisters climbed to the ranks of middle class, leaving less and less gangster numbers in each generation.


7 posted on 05/05/2015 4:23:28 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Uncle Miltie

And, when he grew up, he became a murderer.


8 posted on 05/05/2015 4:28:22 PM PDT by Misterioso (When men give up reason and freedom, the vacuum is filled by faith and force. -- Ayn Rand)
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To: dp0622
At the same time they are given too much time on their hands because the gov gives them a place to live and food to eat.

Makes you wonder what the government is really up to, doesn't it? (That was a rhetorical question)

9 posted on 05/05/2015 4:29:19 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Kaslin

It’s just their way of getting “a head” of Christianity.


10 posted on 05/05/2015 4:29:35 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Disambiguator

Don’t they read history? Do they think their fancy gates and 300 pound security guard or past position as a congressman is going to keep them safe when all hell breaks loose.


11 posted on 05/05/2015 4:32:37 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Kaslin

Um.. no, the root of Islam evil is the teachings of its mass murdering cult leader.


12 posted on 05/05/2015 4:33:34 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Kaslin

““Ah,” our liberal friends will unfailingly point out, “the Muslims invented algebra.”

No, they didn’t. If you look at any list of “muslim inventions”, you’ll see that in fact, they didn’t invent any of them. They did some interesting research, but they were only building on things taken from people they conquered. Chemistry, algebra, zero, medicine - all invented by others and taken by muslims.


13 posted on 05/05/2015 4:47:55 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: sauropod

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14 posted on 05/05/2015 4:48:32 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Travis McGee

SHAMEFUL ATTACKS BY THE DHIMMIT MEDIA TO PAMELA GELLER AND GERT WILDERS

The American “Dhimmitude” media, cowed by Islamic violence, has accepted total submission to the mandates of the Islamic terrorists.

Pamela Geller, Gert Wilders, and Bosch Fawstin (the winner of the contest) are real heroes that have not accepted to be intimidated by Islamic terrorists. It is denigrating for the American media to see their pundits attacking the freedom of expression of those opposed to the Islamization of U.S.

On January 17,2015 and in the same public school center, there was a “Stand with the Prophet” rally by Muslims, a provocative pro-Shariah law event, by supporters of Al-Qaida and Isis organized by one of the terrorists implicated in the bombing of the garage of the NY World Trade Center in 1993.

I wonder if those who try to blame the organizers of the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest,” for the Muslim terrorist attack would have justified if a patriotic American had irrupted in the Muslim rally on January and made a massacre of Islamic terrorists. After all, Americans are profoundly offended by their provocation and the abuse of our freedoms by those who made the Muslim rally in support of the savages that decapitate, crucify and burned Christians alive.

The “Dhimmitude” media, scared by Islamic violence, auto-censors itself and tries to justify the terrorist attack in Texas because the Mohamed cartoons contest offended the sensibility of Islamic terrorists.

On January 2015, radical Islamists desecrated the holy soil of Texas. Do not mess with Texas!!!

ISIS Comes To Texas – This Is War
Noisy Room ^ | May 4 2015 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3286035/posts?page=2

Iranian Commander: We Won’t Rest Until US is an Islamic Republic

Don’t allow Obama and the media fool us, radical Islam officially declared war against U.S. on 9/11/2001.

In Switzerland everybody is drafted and they keep their arms in home in case they need to defend their country. It is imperative that all American arm themselves, the jihadists are already in and can attack any time our churches, malls, theaters, slaughtering innocents men women and children as they are massacring Christians in Africa and the Middle East.


15 posted on 05/05/2015 4:53:43 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Kaslin

Muslims did NOT invent algebra.


16 posted on 05/05/2015 5:29:52 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: BenLurkin

No, resist the urge to kill anyone who looks like that. If you’re an “infidel”, he certainly wants to kill you. But you’ll wind up in prison if you act first.

Remember, “Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them.”


17 posted on 05/05/2015 6:17:21 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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To: Travis McGee

I’ll tell you another obscene tidbit about your horrifying (and effective) wasp life-cycle graphic:

While most caterpillars are being slowly eaten from the inside by the growing wasp larva, enzymes and cofactors are released that make the caterpillar substantially more aggressive to any approaching it:

It actively DEFENDS it’s own growing enemy parasite.

For reasons that are unclear but probably biochemical, it somehow PREFERS to die than have an attacker kill the wasp parasite.

Which eventually, of course, kills the caterpillar.

The caterpillar is NOT only food —it takes a very active role in defending the original attacker.


18 posted on 05/05/2015 7:02:19 PM PDT by gaijin
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