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.

Trent Lott and the Party Crashers: an open letter

Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott made an unnecessarily obnoxious comment over the summer.

"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them", he told the Washington Post.

Former Senator turned power broker lobbyist... what we don't need is a lot more of you and your lack of ideas. Shut up.

You held the leadership for critical years: years when we held the White House, the House and the Senate and we could have, should have, implemented a strategy to destroy the American leftists. We could have privatized much of government. We could have slashed spending; we could have reduced the size of the federal government by 20-30%; we could have reformed the tax code, social security, healthcare. We could have imploded the Department of Education, the EPA, the NEA. We could have given people back 20% of their hard-earned money, taken burdens off of small business, harnessed our own oil and shale and coal production.

We could have done that with a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. Instead, man who sucked at the teet of Government for 35 years, what did we get? What did we get??

Barack Obama.

Bill Clinton.

How did these candidates emerge? Their ideas are proven fallacies, their beliefs are categorically opposed to the American dreams. But they were seen as an alternative to failed leadership. They filled a vacuum of ideas.

You are that vacuum of ideas. Republicans worked so hard to protect their majorities with the likes of you and Arlen Specter and Olympia Snow that they did nothing with their majorities. Actually- not true. They did a great job at damaging the Republican party.

It took Barack Obama's socialist overreach to bring us back into the spotlight. Now we have the chance to present our ideas to the American people, not just as a counter to Barack Obama's recycled Carter Stagflation, but as a truth. Only dedicated and true-blooded Republicans will present these ideas boldly and without compromise.

Like a Senate full of Jim DeMints.

Tomorrow Mike Castle can win the Delaware primary. He's the GOP favorite. And I bet he's your choice, too. Only problem is that he's not a Republican. Well, maybe your kind of Republican. Christine O'Donnell is winning in the polls and the GOP is trying hard to destroy her because she's a Jim DeMint Republican.

And Lisa Murkowski in Alaska is thinking of running as an Independent. Like Charlie Crist. Two more loser Republicans that the voters were smart enough to reject but who are fighting hard to stay alive. For the party? Ha! Yeah. For the party. Same reason you Trent made those unneeded comments about us "Jim DeMint" Republicans.

Don't forget Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Talk Ill About Another Republican. That includes you, Senator. Sorry we aren't welcomed in your big tent, Trent. But your days are over. You had your year... your 35 years. Now it's our time.

Long live the Conservative Movement. To Marco and Joe and Christine: Godspeed.

Overkill

There's been a lot of talk recently- so I haven't done a lot of writing. We are in overkill.

Ever catch someone by surprise- maybe doing something they shouldn't be doing? Often the respond with words... lots and lots of words. They try to talk their way into control. They try to talk their way into logic.

And it's not possible. What you do is just talk your way into a bigger hole.

Barack Obama hasn't learned that lesson. He thinks his golden tongue (well, his teleprompter and recycled scripts) will be the serpent raised in the desert. The more he talks, it seems the worse it gets. Remember the Cambridge Police who acted "stupidly" accordin to the President? Having admitted ... though he didn't have all the facts, the orator in chief was sure his words would put to rest any need for further discussion about the issue. And rather than placate or alleviate all POTUS did was make it worse.

And so the Ground Zero victory tower...er...mosque. He would not comment on the mosque. It was a local issue. For weeks he skirted the issue until the iftar celebration at the White House when, before the right audience (of his choosing...) he comes out in favor of the mosque... though not the wisdom of the mosque... but it was a local issue... what??

I'm against the mosque because it doesn't have to be THERE. It could be anywhere else- it could be moved. And that is what we do in a tolerant society. We accommodate.

We don't put our nativity scenes out less it "offend" other religions.

We don't allow crosses to be used in monuments less it "offend" other religions.

And we don't put mosques where islam killed 3000 people less is "offend" other religions.

But this has all been said and re-said and said again. And we try to talk ourselves into logic: the Constitution guarantees the rights of religious freedom. Congress shall make no law against it. It seems logical.

But this isn't Congress. And this isn't prohibting anyone's religious freedom. It's protecting a pluarlistic society where religious sentiments need to coexist. So why wouldn't the Christmas tree scrooges be more sympathetic to those who want the mosque moved.

They try to talk themselves into logic. And instead they make the reasoning more difficult and the understanding more muddled.

As for koran burning... just as insensitive as the mosque. Funny how it stings both ways.