If you live in New York, you will regularly hear the admonition, “If you see something, say something.” The idea being that the more people who are on the lookout for solitary packages in a crowded railway station, people behaving erratically, and reporting it, the safer we will be. Makes sense. Just be careful not to malign any followers of Islam. What?
In addition to that public service message you also hear other stories in the news. A Muslim cab driver refuses to pick up a fare because they are carrying a recent purchase from a liquor store. The cab driver’s religion is against drinking. At a public university in Minnesota a coffee cart is prohibited from playing Christmas carols, but public funds are used to construct foot baths so that Muslims can properly prepare for prayer. At an airport, security personnel cannot ask someone in line to step out for a closer search because they already pulled out two other Muslim young men and they didn’t want to be accused of racial profiling.
The Facts, Ma’am, Just the Facts
Joe Friday, where are you when we need you? The fictional detective was obsessive in sticking to the facts. Fact: not all Muslims are terrorists. Fact: almost all terrorists you see in the news are Muslims. So if you are on the lookout for terrorists, who should you look at? eighty year old Italian grandmothers or Middle Eastern men between the ages of 20-40?
Fort Hood
People around Major Nidal Malik Hasan, saw something and said something and were basically told…SHUT UP! Apparently diversity is more precious than human life. Taking extreme care not to offend, trumps taking steps to prevent a massacre. There appears to have been abundant evidence that Hasan was ticking time bomb and some spoke out about it, but our sensitivities to giving offence have turned reason inside out.
We have a sub-group of a religion who actively advocate killing all non-members, that is, infidels, and we are scared to death of offending them. Our liberal friends go out of their way to demand we all accommodate them. We can criticize all religions but theirs; we can have dress codes, but must make allowances for their dress; if their religion allows a parent to kill a child for converting to Christianity, we must not interfere, but if a non-Muslim parent neglects to buckle a child into a car seat for a quarter mile journey to the grocery store, bring them up on charges of child neglect.
Jumping to Conclusions
Our Commander-in-Chief cautions us not to rush to judgment by calling this an act of terrorism. Wasn’t this the same Commander-in-Chief who spoke from the White House calling a certain police department in Cambridge, Massachusetts stupid without a clue about what happened.
Political correctness, multiculturalism, an emasculated fourth estate, President Obama’s worldwide apology tour, strong arming a small Central American country, Honduras, because they followed their constitution and instead calling it a coup, all point to an embarrassing campaign by the left to drag down our country.
Please don’t try to make us like the rest of the world. We are greater than that. If you prefer the way the rest of the world behaves, move there. Don’t try to make the shining city on the hill, a city run amok.
It’s simple really. If the world really believed that America is such a terrible place, why do we have an immigration problem? Why do our universities teem with foreign students? Why, whenever there is a flare-up in the world, do all eyes turn to the good old USA to see what we are going to do about it? Where’s Ronald Reagan when you need him?
