Letters to the Editor
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The San Francisco University incident/the cartoons
Well, Golden Boy, you learn something new everyday. Turns out you're right about those students (Republicans, interestingly enough), being brought up on *University* charges. Good thing a powerful Republican organization stepped up and helped them get off the hook. From this organization's six-page letter to the University:
""because the College Republicans were engaged in protected first Amendment at their rally, official punishment of the group or its members would violate the Consitution…we strongly urge the administration not to impose punitive sanctions in response to this incident."
That would be the ACLU. Oh, and all charges were dropped shortly after this letter was sent--back in March.
It's funny how the Righties on this thread area all talking about how liberals ignore Muslim extremists, and then it turns out it's a liberal organization that helps the students get acquitted. You were going to mention and thank the ACLU, right?
You were also going to mention all charges were dropped 5 months ago, right?
Oh, and as for the Dutch cartoons--they were published in Harper's, a liberal magazine. You were also going to note that, right?
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@Million-Year Picnic 12:34 PM
People, we have spent almost half a trillion dollars and spent many lives fighting against fundamentalist islam. And we have barely made a dent. That should tell you what we are up against.
You are being sarcastic, right?
Fighting the wrong enemy in the wrong country and still no results? Wow!
I have another one for you: I've been digging in my garden all morning and my tooth still aches. This is one stubborn toothache, I tell ya!
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@Denning
I have another one for you: I've been digging in my garden all morning and my tooth still aches. This is one stubborn toothache, I tell ya!
Oh, man. I ususally don't post "LOLs" or "me toos", but that cracked me up sooooo bad.
That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
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these theories serve an important purpose - it gives them "the enemy within"
I think that Roger Simon is actually atypical of most of those on the right who have this actual fear and worldview because he is secular-based rather than religious. It much more common to blame the prospect of gay marriage for this threat, rather than endorse it. (The view of Savage, D’Sousa, Falwell, etc.)
The common theme, however, is that the liberals are an “enemy within.” For Simon (and secular neo-cons) it’s because “they don’t understand the threat” and for the religious right, the liberals themselves “caused the threat” and are responsible for 9/11.
The same is true for the Malkinites who fear “Reconquista” – whether they want to admit it or not, their real enemies are Americans who don’t share their views on immigration.
These fears and worldviews although ostensibly directed at outside the U.S. are really directed at their fellow Americans who don’t share their views – who need to “wake up” and embrace the fear and adopt their delusional conspiracy theories.
It is this fear of “liberals” – the fear of “the enemy within” - that holds the neo-conservatives and the religious right together within the Republican Party. These conspiracy theories thus serve a valuable purpose for them, it binds them together like a religion does, or more accurately, a cult.
That is why this worldview appeals to such substantial portions of the right-wing political movement in the United States, and even for those who don’t really believe these theories, they serve a valuable political purpose, and are therefore rarely condemned for the lunacy they represent.
http://www.dineshdsouza.com/books/enemy-intro.html
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703300007
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@ Kitt
By the way, Glenn didn't argue that Islam takeover is "unlikely". If he has argued anything at all on that matter he has argued that it is out of the realm of possibility.
"Oh, but it isssssssss ... if the mongrel hordes outbreed us. So let's make condoms illegal and bomb abortionist abattoirs ... and third world nations."
</SNARK>
Just to place the argument in perspective.
Cheers,
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[Read Million-Year Picnic's other letters]
Really, do.
The fine art of facetious satire is not dead!
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It's the flouride in the water!
@Goldenboy --
Can you answer the question as to how "creeping Islam" is somehow going to take over our political, governmental and financial institutions, take charge of our schools and workplaces and homes, force the women into burkas, force the men into facial hair, put us all under shari'a law, and have us all saying Allahu Akbar instead of the Pledge of Allegiance?
The same way creeping socialism has ruined this country, you fool!
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Where'd all these "boys" in Bermuda shorts come from all of a sudden?
Is the Temple of Right-Wing Idiocy closed on Mondays, or is it just that word of Salon's new RV parking lot has finally reached the Free Republic?
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One University Incident Does NOT a Major Threat to our Existence Make
Yup, Golden Boy, it's no surprise that you think your San Franciso college episode -- what appears to be an attempt to limit hate speech among students -- is some sort of de facto (hey, I used Latin just like you do, are ya impressed?) proof that Islamofascism is poised to take over America, from sea to shining sea.
And why don't you tell us how everyone from Corporal Klinger to Shakira to the Muslim guy who runs the falafel stand up the street secretly harbor the desire to take over the world and make us all subjects of Islam -- especially YOU.
And God (not Allah, of course) help anyone who does anything besides declare Holy War on the lot of them, because, even tolerance or coexistence is cause for hysteria, because it's a sign that the "nasty, illiberal ideology" is winning...
The fact that the US media didn't publish the cartoons is evidence of a media that can't be bothered anymore to do anything that isn't easy. But the cartoons are small small potatoes compared to the absymal failure of the American media to cover much of what has gone on in America for the past 6 years. Why do you expect anything different? Or do you have a different standard for coverage of "Islamofascism," as compared to homegrown, American, Christian fascism?
And again...would someone, maybe you, maybe one of your fellow Islamophobes, explain to me how, exactly, radical Islam is poised to threaten everything that is America? Because the only threat I keep seeing in radical Islam is that it breeds terrorists -- as does most radical/fundamentalism of all ilks -- and it provides a very convenient boogeyman with which distinctly NON-Muslim neocons, Zionists and hysterics can threaten, attempt to control, and profit off of me and other Americans).
So, GoldenBoy, how bout it...we're waiting for the logical, practical explanation of how the troops of Islam are poised to take over America, kill all the gays, enslave all the women and force us all into dhimmitude...
--Aruru