Letters to the Editor
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Imprison murders; laugh at whiners...... a pie for a pie, a spoof for a spoof
They freely traffic on a daily basis in the most strident anti-Muslim commentary with no consequences of any kind, yet simultaneously insist, with operatic melodrama, that anyone who does so is subject to fatwas and must live in seclusion, fearing for their lives.
When this is pointed out, anti-Islam propagandists immediately bring up instances and incidents of bullying & violence that occurred in Western Europe or within Muslim-dominated states to "refute" your point. You will see letters that go on in this way in response to this post. However, the death threats against prominent critics of Islam, the violence-tarnished street protests over cartoons -- these contemptible episodes are not occurring in the U.S.. People who subject us to these drama queen rants should be called on it.
There is a grave threat to human rights posed by extremist Islam -- in the Mideast, in Pakistan, in the Sahel and the Maghreb. You know -- where people may be killed for speaking their minds, or uncovering their faces, or holding hands in public. Where their killers can get away with murder, and then! puff themselves up as great defenders of virtue and culture by playing off of their social status as "pure" men.
People stateside who pretend that their public displays of anti-Muslim bigotry protect us against a future under the thumb of violent Islamists are just mirror images of these Islamist bullyboys. They deserve........ the same kind and degree of public regard as their bearded Doppelganger* in Saudi Arabia. They're pure as New York snow -- and they deserve Bronx cheers.*can someone show me how to force Salon's letters page to accept the umlaut numeric entities? Or the named entities?