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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (469)	11/19/2004 10:39:30 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224648

shepard. You said...." I wouldn't have trouble living in Europe, how bout you? You ever been there? Very civilized"..... No doubt you would fit in there quite well..... Europe Confronts Racism By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com \| November 11, 2004 frontpagemag.com “War is deceit,” said Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, and deception remains a potent and little-recognized weapon in the hands of international jihadists. Radical Muslims today charge “racism” against anyone who dares to point out their motives and goals — manifesting a canny awareness of what stands as the unpardonable sin in Western political discourse. All too often, the mainstream media plays along, probably because they simply don’t have any conceptual apparatus enabling them to view conflicts any other way. Yet their continued misapplication of conflicts as “racial” interferes with realistic appraisals of what they really involve — most notoriously in a Netherlands still reeling from last week’s murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a jihad terrorist on an Amsterdam street. The Times of London did this last Sunday with an article entitled “Jihad wrecks Dutch race harmony.” After noting evidence of a “‘brigade’ of Dutch jihadists preparing to murder ‘the enemies of Islam’ in a terror campaign,” the Times worried that all this jihadist activity has “prompted some to rethink their faith in a multiracial society.” The Times wrings its hands over the possibility that “Dutch tolerance no longer extends so readily these days to immigration and religious diversity.” Ah yes. It’s all about Dutch intolerance and rejection of “religious diversity,” you see. It doesn’t seem to occur to the Times that the killing of van Gogh was a supreme manifestation of the rejection of “religious diversity” — even while reporting that the note that van Gogh’s murderer impaled on his body declared that “hair- raising screams will be squeezed from the lungs of the non-believers.” Not against “white Dutchmen,” mind you, but against “non-believers.” The Times isn’t the only major media outlet suffering from this myopia. Newsweek International carried a story recently entitled “Racism’s Rising Tide,” quoting a French journalist: “Our Europe cannot be one of racism. Never.” But, according to Newsweek, “more strident voices in Italy are pushing in exactly that direction. Oriana Fallaci, now 74, has developed a niche all her own as a best-selling voice of fear and fury.” Fallaci is the courageous Italian thinker who has published several books now about how jihad ideology threatens Europe. But for Newsweek, it’s all about how “the new antipathy toward foreigners of color, especially in Italy, is a far more worrisome trend.” But why exactly must the killing of van Gogh prompt some to “rethink their faith in a multiracial society”? And why are Fallaci’s warnings signs that “foreigners of color” are being victimized? If everyone in the Netherlands were white and blonde, and yet 5% of the population believed that the society should be remade into an Islamic state, wouldn’t the Dutch be facing the same problem they are now? If everyone in Italy were descended from the ancient Romans, and yet a significant number of them believed that Italian society must be made over to conform to the dictates of Islamic Sharia law, would that be nothing for Italians to be concerned about? If the mosques of the Netherlands and Italy were populated by people like John Walker Lindh (“Johnny Taliban” from Marin County, California), Adam Yehiye Gadahn (a.k.a. Adam Pearlman), Richard Reid (the “shoe bomber”) and Jack Roche (the Australian Muslim convert who met Osama bin Laden and thought he was a “very nice man,”) would Holland and Italy be safe today? The problem, in short, is not the race, but the ideology of Muslim immigrants. For over thirty years, besotted EU officials have concluded pact after pact with the Arab League that made for massive Muslim immigration into Europe without assimilation. Would the new European Muslims accept European pluralism? That was assumed — betraying a shocking naivete and ignorance of what Islam has historically taught about the nature of society and the proper relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims. The problem is not racism, but precisely a clash of civilizations, or a clash between two radically opposing views of how society should be ordered. Another news item from Holland last week vividly illustrated that fact: when Dutch artist Chris Ripke commemorated van Gogh by painting a mural featuring the words “Thou shalt not kill,” a local mosque leader complained to police. The mural, you see, was “racist.” The police obediently sandblasted away the offensive message. If “thou shalt not kill” is racist, then so is the entire Christian civilization upon which Holland (and Europe in general) was built. And that, no doubt, is exactly what the multiculturalist journalists who see the strife in Europe as a race problem believe.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (469)	11/19/2004 7:57:28 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224648

You Know You’re a Liberal If... •You are convinced that Frank Capra films and Norman Rockwell paintings are lies and distortions but “Platoon”, “Dances With Wolves”, and “Thelma and Louise” are realistic. •You think a moment of silent prayer at the beginning of the school day constitutes government indoctrination and an intrusion on parental authority, while sex education, condom distribution, and multiculturalism are values-neutral. •You agonize over threats to the natural environment (acid rain, toxic waste) but are oblivious to threats to the social environment (pornography, promiscuity, and family dissolution). •You want to legalize cocaine and outlaw handguns. You think cops are pigs and criminals are products of their environment. You believe the National Rifle Association helps criminals while the American Civil Liberties Union protects the innocent. •Jesse Jackson and Barbara Streisand make sense to you. •You believe corporate profits are obscene and the American people are undertaxed. •You think marriage is obsolete — except for homosexuals. You think AIDS is spread by insufficient funding. •You are convinced that proponents of welfare reform hate the poor and opponents of affirmative action hate minorities, but People for the American Way types who go psycho over Protestant “fundamentalists” are guardians of democracy. •You attribute every minority problem to entrenched, institutional racism and the legacy of slavery and segregation. You think the black middle class is a myth created by Newt Gingrich. •Lastly, you’re probably a Liberal if you don’t get the point of this list. ************************************************* Yes, I've been to Europe. It's not any more civilized than most areas of the USA. Liberals are easily impressed by celebrities and the French.