Another call for the group Brillo pad please ...
I attended a dinner party recently in Ohio with a number of young American couples - successful surgeons, homemakers and lawyers who had small children and bright hopes. They were Muslims - quite appreciative of their American home and quite assimilated, speaking with great enthusiasm about the latest college football ranking controversies, real estate prices and the "Borat" movie.
I am sure none of them will support Sharia Courts for Muslims in their state.
While flying home to Los Angeles the next day, I began to wonder: Could Osama bin Laden and America's right-wing zealots be in cahoots? It seems both parties want these families to accept that they cannot be truly American and truly Muslim.
Polls of Muslims in the West consistently report that their primary identity is based on their forced indoctrination to the Islam cult.
During the pope's recent visit to Turkey, he spent time making amends for arguing that Christianity is compatible with modern civilization in a manner that Islam cannot hope to be.
Many Westerners wish he hadn't shifted his rhetoric from divisive to reconciling. Such persons are as dangerous to long-term peace as are fanatical Muslim hillbillies, because they help shape the policy of the world's lone superpower.
And the overblown "clash of civilizations" could thus become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
That "prophecy" has been fulfilled.
Ann Coulter's post-9/11 suggestion that we "invade" countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" resulted in her dismissal by a conservative publication. Five years later, the Coulter Hydra effect is evident among the loyal fan bases of provocateurs such as Mark Steyn and Robert Spencer and the lively hordes on Web sites such as Little Green Footballs and WorldNetDaily...
What about Rantburg? Zenster might want to sleep with Ann Coulter. |