Congressman Calls for Hearings on 'Radicalization' of White Christian Women :: Raymond Ibrahim
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11907/congressman-calls-for-hearings-on-radicalization ....”Finally, Green concluded his sanctimonious attack by saying "I do know what it feels like to look like a Muslim in the minds of some people and to be demeaned in a public venue…. I look forward to the day that we'll have that hearing that deals with the radicalization of Christians in America"—again, all meaningless race-related rhetoric and moral relativism, the sole value of which is to obfuscate the issue at hand: the real threat of "radicalization of Muslim-Americans."....
RRD:In addition to Mr.Ibrahim's article(which I recommend reading in full),I wish to add some points of my own. For the record: I also ” know what it feels like to look like a Muslim in the minds of some people and to be demeaned in a public venue”.(And also what it is like to ”look like a Jew in the minds of some people”& be spat upon,& to ”look like a Mexican in the minds of some people....) I suspect that this is also true of Mr.Ibrahim & Walid Phares & Hirshi Ali as well as some Arab Jewish friends of mine.
It is disgusting(& dangerously naive) of some people to conflate Islam with a race.(”Most Arabs are Muslim,therefore most Muslims are Arab” & ”all ”swarthy” individuals are Muslim”.) How this will be corrected by Green & Ellison reinforcing this stereotype
is unclear.
None of this alters the fact that the
greatest threat is not from Christian Radicals flying jetliners into skyscrapers,or Christian Radicals plotting to blow up Time Square,or Christian organizations promoting the idea that Jews are the offspring of ”apes and pigs”.
It is from Islamists.
Even when we think of actual Christian Fanatics (such as the Christian Reconstructionists aka the Dominionists) they do not pose the same type of threat:They are either not violent or the degree of their threat and their death toll is far less than that inflicted by the Islamists. Where are the Christians blowing up subways as in Britain,or train stations as in Madrid?
Where are the Christian plots to blow up the Holland Tunnel? Brevik? Even if one regards both him & Mcveigh as Christians,the threat posed by Islamists dwarfs that posed by these individuals.
As to Green's statement that he looks forward to the day that we'll have ”that hearing that deals with the radicalization of Christians in America”. I doubt that he will have long to wait. Islamists in Europe,(the Islamists who supposedly don't exist) have succeeded in criminalizing criticism of Islam & Muslims(while Islamists go about spouting every anti-semitic slander imaginable).
And their allies like Justice Breyer apparently wish to do the same here.
We have seen Bloomberg go on television & ascribe the acts of a Islamist to opponents of socialized medicine. We have seen the recent preposterous Castle episode where the victims of terrorism go about plotting fake terrorist attacks to remind us of the threat.(This is at a time when actual Islamist terrorists are carrying out their actual atrocities). We have seen appeasement in the fact the Obama administration seeks to make Muslims ”feel good about themselves”(Something hardly ”necessary” even it were a legitimate function of the state,as many Muslims seem to have a triumphalist worldview,and a "self-esteem" that rivals any produced by the "self-esteem" movement in the U.S.) But then this should hardly be surprising.
When a ”Conservative” president goes around spouting that Islam "is a religion of peace"( ala the Quakers),why should we be suprised when this even more politically correct administration goes about denouncing Quran burnings while pretending that Islam could never,ever motivate someone to carry out their attacks.
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11907/congressman-calls-for-hearings-on-radicalization ....”Finally, Green concluded his sanctimonious attack by saying "I do know what it feels like to look like a Muslim in the minds of some people and to be demeaned in a public venue…. I look forward to the day that we'll have that hearing that deals with the radicalization of Christians in America"—again, all meaningless race-related rhetoric and moral relativism, the sole value of which is to obfuscate the issue at hand: the real threat of "radicalization of Muslim-Americans."....
RRD:In addition to Mr.Ibrahim's article(which I recommend reading in full),I wish to add some points of my own. For the record: I also ” know what it feels like to look like a Muslim in the minds of some people and to be demeaned in a public venue”.(And also what it is like to ”look like a Jew in the minds of some people”& be spat upon,& to ”look like a Mexican in the minds of some people....) I suspect that this is also true of Mr.Ibrahim & Walid Phares & Hirshi Ali as well as some Arab Jewish friends of mine.
It is disgusting(& dangerously naive) of some people to conflate Islam with a race.(”Most Arabs are Muslim,therefore most Muslims are Arab” & ”all ”swarthy” individuals are Muslim”.) How this will be corrected by Green & Ellison reinforcing this stereotype
is unclear.
None of this alters the fact that the
greatest threat is not from Christian Radicals flying jetliners into skyscrapers,or Christian Radicals plotting to blow up Time Square,or Christian organizations promoting the idea that Jews are the offspring of ”apes and pigs”.
It is from Islamists.
Even when we think of actual Christian Fanatics (such as the Christian Reconstructionists aka the Dominionists) they do not pose the same type of threat:They are either not violent or the degree of their threat and their death toll is far less than that inflicted by the Islamists. Where are the Christians blowing up subways as in Britain,or train stations as in Madrid?
Where are the Christian plots to blow up the Holland Tunnel? Brevik? Even if one regards both him & Mcveigh as Christians,the threat posed by Islamists dwarfs that posed by these individuals.
As to Green's statement that he looks forward to the day that we'll have ”that hearing that deals with the radicalization of Christians in America”. I doubt that he will have long to wait. Islamists in Europe,(the Islamists who supposedly don't exist) have succeeded in criminalizing criticism of Islam & Muslims(while Islamists go about spouting every anti-semitic slander imaginable).
And their allies like Justice Breyer apparently wish to do the same here.
We have seen Bloomberg go on television & ascribe the acts of a Islamist to opponents of socialized medicine. We have seen the recent preposterous Castle episode where the victims of terrorism go about plotting fake terrorist attacks to remind us of the threat.(This is at a time when actual Islamist terrorists are carrying out their actual atrocities). We have seen appeasement in the fact the Obama administration seeks to make Muslims ”feel good about themselves”(Something hardly ”necessary” even it were a legitimate function of the state,as many Muslims seem to have a triumphalist worldview,and a "self-esteem" that rivals any produced by the "self-esteem" movement in the U.S.) But then this should hardly be surprising.
When a ”Conservative” president goes around spouting that Islam "is a religion of peace"( ala the Quakers),why should we be suprised when this even more politically correct administration goes about denouncing Quran burnings while pretending that Islam could never,ever motivate someone to carry out their attacks.
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