Monday, August 23, 2010

Islamophobic Americans

Powerline tries to answer the question:  Are Americans Islamophobic?  There seems to be snide insinuations in the mainstream media that we are, and that it is a bad thing.  Omigod!  You mean most Americans have a problem with an ideology that promotes head chopping, bomb-throwing, women-beating, gay-executing barbarianism?  One could only hope.

Powerline puts it into perspective:
In the end, of course, the question comes down to how one defines Islamophobia. If it means disliking American Muslims because of their religion, then I don't think the charge sticks. If it means disliking a good deal of what many Muslims are doing in the wider world, and seeing some sort of a connection between that conduct and the religion of Islam, then Americans may well be Islamophobic. But we would be fools if we weren't. [emphasis added]
Am I an Islamophobe?  On steroids.
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4 comments:

  1. Stogie8/24/2010 10:59 AM

    <span>Pace, Stogie! 
     
    Don't let the multicults trap you with their terminology. 
     
    To reject and oppose an alien, anti-Western ideology like Islam is both rational and moral.  But when you accept the term "Islamophobe," you're saying you suffer from an irrational fear.  
     
    I'd argue there's nothing irrational about not wanting creeping sharia in your backyard!</span>

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  2. Stogie8/24/2010 1:00 PM

    Good point, OR.  "Islamophobe" is obviously a liberal invention.  I shouldn't play by the rules they set.

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  3. Stogie8/26/2010 2:21 AM

    Bonjour Stogie ,islamophobe ? comment ne pas l'etre ? à mon avis bien sur !http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/07/perfect-man.html#comment-form

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  4. Stogie8/26/2010 9:25 AM

    Kate says:  Hello Stogie.  Islamophobe?  How can you not be one? That's my opinion for sure.

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