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Politically Incorrect

February 8, 2006

‘Sensitivity’ can have brutal consequences - Mark Steyn in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Very few societies are genuinely multicultural. Most are bicultural: On the one hand, there are folks who are black, white, gay, straight, pre-op transsexual, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, worshippers of global-warming doom-mongers, and they rub along as best they can. And on the other hand are folks who do not accept the give-and-take, the rough-and-tumble of a “diverse” “tolerant” society, and, when one gently raises the matter of their intolerance, they threaten to kill you, which makes the question somewhat moot.

And that’s just it for me, Militant Islam has to recognize that their methods are working against them. Their reign of terror (literally and figuratively) is going to come to a bloody and violent end for them if they insist on being pig-headed zealots with no tolerance for other cultures. I, for one, am not going to respect their requests that the world treat them with respect all the while they result to murdering anyone that offends them. Where’s their tolerance?

And another quote from Christopher Hitchens in Slate magazine entitled Cartoon Debate:

Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet-who was only another male mammal-is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent. This current uneasy coexistence is only an interlude, he seems to say. For the moment, all I can do is claim to possess absolute truth and demand absolute immunity from criticism. But in the future, you will do what I say and you will do it on pain of death.

Good luck finding sympathy for your cause when, as a so-called “peaceful” Muslim, you aren’t willing to publicly denouce all calls to violence such as we’re seeing in response to a CARTOON, for God’s sake! If there’s no room for debate and everything ends in “Death to the Infidels” don’t be surprised when you find yourself getting carpet-bombed by Dubya’s Army. When violence and murder are your only forms of negotiation, I don’t know what alternatives there are for dealing with you.

What I’m trying to point out is that the zealous factions of Islam are making it much harder on the people they claim to be advocating for. When is someone going to point out to them that their actions are having precisely the opposite effect? Didn’t Muslims learn this after 9/11? Then again, I honestly think that a global war with the West is just exactly what these nutjobs want anyway, so maybe it’s pointless. The Muslim world has to flush these despots out themself else they’re going to continue to suffer alongside them because they refuse to distinguish themselves.