Surely the onrush of Islamic fundamentalist caliphate warriors and their fifth column henchmen of the ACLU and the Dhimmicratic party is destined to fail.

How could it succeed?

We have legions and legions of brave, forthright young Republicans and Christian Culture Warriors and O'Reilly fans and FrontPageMag readers and National Review bloggers.

All of these people are proud of having enlisted and fought in the Great War To Save America From Iraqi Terrorism, and surely they are confident that their battle skills would transfer to the domestic fight.

Piss Christ pissed off Xians, but no one was bombed or murdered.

Benito Giuliani whipped up a frenzy to cut off funding for the Brooklyn Museum. When you have that kind of civic power, you don't have to threaten bombs or murder.

In the end it's the same shit, different Messiah.

NSA wiretaps suggest very strong evidence that there are Muslims hiding in your scrotum right this very minute. For your own security, you should chop off your testicles at once.

I know you are trying to be helpful, but the justifiably paralyzing fear that the Savage Desert Beasts instill in any pure-hearted, oatmeal-fed American male tend to cause the testicles to retract to a such a degree they become inaccessible.

The situation these poor souls find themselves in can be remedied by surgery, replacing the frightened nuts with Neuticles, or by e.g. publishing their own goddammned paper full of anti-Muhammed cartoons if they care that bleeding much about it!

Assertion of 1st-amendment rights is known to have beneficial effects wrt "having some balls."

Can you answer the question as to why the cartoons that offended Islamic sensibilities were reprinted almost nowhere in the States?

Oh. So if the N.Y. Times doesn't reprint the complete "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in the interest of full disclosure, they're aiding and abetting the Master Plan of (or at least kow-towing to) the anti-Semites?

Agreed, the cartoons are not the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", but nonetheless, it's not necessary for them to print everything that you think they ought to be printing. Others have reprinted the cartoons. And not everyone prints Ted Rall, either. Imagine that.

Cheers,

You need to bridge that gap, becasue "today we don't print offensive cartoons, tomorrow we're a giant caliphate" is not an especially convincing argument.

Well said. And I completely agree with Golden Boy that CNN pixilated those Danish Cartoons so one could not actually see them, that the NYT wouldn't publish them & etc, for one reason: FEAR. After those cartoons become a cause of riots in other parts of the world, they took on news value, but our media almost universally caved to a desire not see their studios/presses blown up.

In that sense, Muslim terror inarguably has had a chilling effect on speech; Piss Christ pissed off Xians, but no one was bombed or murdered. Salman Rushdie wrote a novel that some Muslims purport to find blasphemous, and nearly has his life ruined by having to go into hiding. These are serious issues.

But none of that means a Caliphate is coming, or that Islamist terrorists have any capacity whatever to install one. To believe otherwise is sheer paranoid lunacy.

People like glenn and these other liberal wingnuts are vastly underestimating the battle we are in.

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.

God has chosen this moment in time as a pivotal battle against good and evil. I personally feel no greater goal than to fight and die for this great cause. All REAL americans should feel the same.

NSA wiretaps suggest very strong evidence that there are Muslims hiding in your scrotum right this very minute. For your own security, you should chop off your testicles at once.

There, I'll bet you feel better already.

In fact, I think the contrast is telling; the students who stormed the stage at Columbia were actually punished, whereas the SFSU students were let off the hook. It definitely exposes hypocrisy in American universities, and not bending toward "liberalism," or in favor of "islamism;" quite the opposite.

I think that is pretty interesting, as well as the question that few of you are addressing (on why the cartoons that insulted Islam were not republished in the States - and online ain't the same thing.)

For the same reason that barely any newspaper questioned WMD claims or the bin Laden/Hussein link:

American journalism is full of useless wusses.

(They're repressing my hilarious "Jesus and Muhammed are Gay Lovers" cartoons, too, by refusing to publish them and pay me the vast sums I demand. It's an outrage, I tells ya!)

As for Mona's comments, it may well be worth talking about how effective Muslims will be at imposing their absurd demands for superiority upon civilized people, but don't you think that we first have to agree that Muslims are doing so in the first place?

Yes. Too a much smaller degree than certain types of Christians, who are more successful at it in this country anyway.

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Look, you can be scared of Muslims all you want, and good luck convincing the rest of us, really.

3. Rather than call Hitchens a drunk, I suggest you read his columns. Salon columnists will not provide you with an alternate point of view. This is a way to get past your blinder problem.

-- NotOrbitBoy

I didn't know the bars of Salon were locked. We have no way out of here? Help! Will you, Notorbitboy, and Christopher Hitchens please come and save us? We're trapped in the musty Salon! Your refreshing sanity has me convinced.

Roger Simon:

The very people most threatened by the ideology of Islamism and the institution of Sharia law –- gays, women, freethinkers -- are often the very people least likely to defend themselves against it.

To some people, "defend" means physical, fight-to-the-death, confrontation exclusively. I consider this a narrow, primal, pre-enlightenment understanding of our relationship with other ideologies.

The way we defend against extreme islam is the same way we defended against communism. we excercised our freedoms, made allies, and led by example in the world. Soviet citizens saw us and wanted to be like us.

No doubt American military strength kept USSR at bay, but the actual defeat of communism was their envy of our system. That is why when the end for communism came, the buzz-word was not surrender, but Glasnost, meaning: openness.

Oh, there was more factor factor accelerating their demise: military adventurism in the Middle East.

We defend our way of life differently, Mr. Simon. We live it faithfully. We fight for our superior system here first.