Robert at Atlantic Crossings ("Between the Hudson Highlands and the South of England") provides some American historical perspective in reponse to the to-be-expected grousing from CAIR.
Money quote(s):
"(T)he rest of us had understood “violence” never had anything to do with Islam? Certainly, much media appeared to think that same way.
Moreover, if many “individuals and institutions” were obviously not so unfamiliar with the complexity of Americans’ historical love-hate relationship with their secular state? And if they were not, that they would be better able to grasp the essential difference between the worry and self-preservationist fear that undergirded the likes of, say, the “Whiskey Rebellion”…
…and has always existed, and exists still, compared to that which motivates foreigners who seize Americans on the high seas — and now slaughter them, en masse, at home — and who justify doing so owing to what they proclaim is commanded by their holy book?"
Showing posts with label Koran sniper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koran sniper. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Thursday, January 8, 2009
WT - OPINION: Whitewashing the Islamist threat. More fallout from Koran sniper story.
From my archive of press clippings:
Washington Times
OPINION: Whitewashing the Islamist threat. More fallout from Koran sniper story.
Diana West
Monday, June 2, 2008
What interested me most about the official reaction to this month's Koran Sniper story - apologies galore, a kissed Koran for probable former insurgents, a punished soldier - was what it made vivid about our society: American deference to Islam, from the sacralization of Islam's book to the ideology of anti-infidelism, supremacism and totalitarian conquest within it. After all, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond called the sniper's action "criminal behavior." But the only law broken was Islamic law.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Had a mid-century GI used "Mein Kampf" for target practice, I noted, Gen. George S. Patton would hardly have kissed one to appease a band of former Nazis.
Suffice to say, I've received considerable comment, both positive and negative, about this analogy."
Washington Times
OPINION: Whitewashing the Islamist threat. More fallout from Koran sniper story.
Diana West
Monday, June 2, 2008
What interested me most about the official reaction to this month's Koran Sniper story - apologies galore, a kissed Koran for probable former insurgents, a punished soldier - was what it made vivid about our society: American deference to Islam, from the sacralization of Islam's book to the ideology of anti-infidelism, supremacism and totalitarian conquest within it. After all, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond called the sniper's action "criminal behavior." But the only law broken was Islamic law.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Had a mid-century GI used "Mein Kampf" for target practice, I noted, Gen. George S. Patton would hardly have kissed one to appease a band of former Nazis.
Suffice to say, I've received considerable comment, both positive and negative, about this analogy."
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