Posted on 05/08/2015 10:17:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
et’s be clear: The great freak-out over Pamela Geller’s “draw Muhammad” contest isn’t about love for Islam or for robust and respectful religious pluralism. Indeed, many of those expressing anguish over blasphemy against Islam show no such concern over even the most vile attacks on the Christian faith. Beyond that, they’re among the leaders in movements designed to banish religious liberty — including Muslim religious liberty — to the margins of American life. Instead, the fury against Pamela Geller is motivated mostly by fear — by the understanding that there are indeed many, many Muslims who believe that blasphemy should be punished with death, and who put that belief into practice. It’s motivated by the fear that our alliances with even “friendly” Muslim states and “allied” Muslim militias are so fragile that something so insignificant as a cartoon would drive them either to neutrality or straight into the arms of ISIS.
That’s why even the military brass will do something so unusual as call a fringe pastor of a tiny little church to beg him not to post a YouTube video. That’s why the president of the United States — ostensibly the most powerful man in the world — will personally appeal to that same pastor not to burn a Koran. They know that hundreds of millions of Muslims are not “moderate” by any reasonable definition of that word, and they will,in fact, allow themselves to be provoked by even the most insignificant and small-scale act of religious satire or defiance. After all, there are Muslim communities that will gladly burn Christians alive to punish even rumored blasphemy.
US military bases raise alert level??
Is this going to be blamed on Geller?
If our “alliances” are that fragile, they are no real alliances. They are just a way for us to contribute arms and munitions to the enemy.
nope, jade helm is in response to Baltimore
What the ultimate goal is for the Drive-By Media - the political arm of which is the Democrat Party - be the arbiters of what is and isn’t “free speech.”
Jade Helm was scheduled long before Baltimore
We’ve known about at least 5 months
My son really follows these things thru Matt bracken and others and was telling me about it then
I kinda blew it off then to be honest
Islam is an ignorant, intolerant, evil religion, and it deserves our scorn. There is no enlightened understanding in this country that “religion” is protected from truth or free speech, nor should there be. That nonsense has nothing to do with the history of this country, or Western values. It comes from multiculturalism, another ignorant doctrine that is destroying the West.
Home of the brave.
Basically, the sum of the leftist argument is: Muslims have instincts like animals. They can not think or reason. If you provoke them, you may get an unexpected and violent reaction, like poking a bear with a stick.
Yes, 1 percent of 1.6 billion is a big number.
The “moderate” Muslims who celebrated the downing of the twin towers include that 1 percent, and a much larger block of them too.
Did Pamela save us from another 9/11?
We know the FBI knew of those two knuckle heads but did not stop them.
How many more does the FBI know about?
Perfect! Ostensibly is an adverb you use to talk about something that looks one way, but underneath there's the hint of a different motivation for that action. That's the Marxist/Muslim sympathizer who soils our Oval Office.
Dubya is no longer a convenient scapegoat for the faux critics to heap blame upon. Islam is offended? Islam is offended by the very PRESENCE of anybody who is not also a fervent follower of the Prophet and Allah. And various factions within Islam may also regard other factions to be “infidel” and subject of death upon being revealed for their apostasy.
Nobody is going to make the Islamic jidhadists angry. They are ALREADY angry, and this is only a lightning rod for them to vent their fury upon.
I say, let us put up a hundred, a thousand, lightning rods, and draw the bearded men with burning eyes out into the open, where they must face a little rough justice in their own right. If it is to meet Allah they want, it shall be arranged.
There will be no forcible conversions today.
” Muslims have instincts like animals. They can not think or reason. If you provoke them, you may get an unexpected and violent reaction, like poking a bear with a stick.”
1400 years of inbreeding
the big lie of our age in that 10% of the population is homo, and that only 1% of the moslems support the radicals. My understanding is that at a minimum, the opposite is true.
I’ve started reading Matt Bracken & I almost wish I hadn’t.
He writes some really scary depressing dystopias. The world wide web gets fried & most of the world’s people kill each other off while turning into Stone Age savages.
Back to the future: around 1960 at the height of the Cold War & backyard fallout shelters & duck-and-cover scares, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev warned, “Following a thermonuclear war, the survivors will envy the dead”.
Anyway, Pamela Geller’s critics don’t even realize how stupid & cowardly they sound:
“Now don’t anger the Muslims, because they will try to kill you!”
In the Middle East six million Jews in Israel survive while surrounded by 350 million Arab Muslims. Must be doing something right & the ISIS savages have yet to attack them. One of those things that make you go hmmmm.......
When the News Cartel leaders were together the next morning plotting the week’s propaganda——ummm, I mean “news”-——think how upset they were that the jihadis were eradicated so quickly with no actual injury to the conference attendees.
No to mention stoning women who are rumored to have sex outside of marriage. And there are those beheaded by their own husbands for what ever reason. Don't even get me started on genital mutilation of young girls, not to mention rape, forced marriage, slavery...and on...and on...and on...it goes around the world.
Yeah right Bush II, Islam is a religion of peace. While I didn't expect you to say that we should eradicate all muslims after 9/11, that was just dumb and you should have kept your mouth shut.
If Obama had his way and the Muslim Brotherhood still ran Egypt, maybe. Sisi not so much. I don’t think the guy who just closed 27,000 mosques is going to worry about it.
***Jade Helm was scheduled long before Baltimore***
If by that you mean that Jade Helm was scheduled long before Baltimore happened, considering the players involved what if Baltimore was scheduled long before Baltimore or Jade Helm happened?
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