The Islam Problem

I don't watch The View.

I have a job.

But I guess the other day on The View, Bill O'Reilly caused Whoopi and Joy to walk off the set because of his comments on the Ground Zero mosque and the fact that islam killed 3000 Americans on 9/11.

Truth can be a very divisive thing.

I was watching the news last week as 10 European Airports raised their threat level due to credible evidence that members of a certain religious persuasion were planning attacks. Rome remembers those attacks well and many died at Fiumicino Airport in 1986 when a certain faith no different than any other faith launched an attack on tourists.

While these airports were going to defcon 5... Geert Wilders stood trial for "hate speech" in Holland. See- his words made people sad. Like Whoopi and Joy. And that's not allowed in Holland.

Fort Hood bomber Major Hassan is also on trial for his crimes. I wrote about that crime here and here. He and underwear bomber Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab, who also stands trial for his attempt to bring down a plane, are more recent examples of people not at war with us because of religion.

(And I use the word "crime" above facetiously. Only the left think terrorism is a crime.)

I'm forgetting the Times Square bomber who luckily knew more about cologne and gold chains than wiring and fertilizer. Religion was not a factor in his efforts, either.

I'm waiting for this anti-muslim backlash in America. One would think it would have happened right after 9/11. Or after the first world trade center bombing. Or after the dozens of muslim terrorist attacks on Americans here and abroad. It just hasn't happened. America is not anti-muslim. America is not anti-anything.

But America's equality has translated into fairness. And fairness has become relativism. Relativism is dangerous. It is relative to think "any" religion can do what islam is doing to the world. They point to that pastor in Florida who wants to burn the koran as an example of radical Christianity. How that compares to beheading people on the internet, I do not understand.

Guess it's all relative.

The islam problem is real and pervasive. And the problem is not America's treatment of islam or muslim people, but their behavior in the west. Where are the moderate muslim leaders? Where are the moderate muslim people and communities? There is nothing moderate about demanding to build a mosque in a sensitive area. There is nothing moderate about their silence in the face of persistent, frequent attacks around the world and in our country.

The tap dance around political speech and sensitivity has made America very divisive. While Europe goes into protection mode, America's leftist government continues its ostrich positioning.

And that's a problem.