Another tipping point?
Has it struck you the way the media doth protest too much? Example 1 from CBS: “Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Obama is a Muslim.” Example 2 from TIME: “Nearly one-third of the country thinks adherents of Islam should be barred from running for President — a slightly higher percentage than the 24% who mistakenly believe the current occupant of the Oval Office is himself a Muslim.” Why are the media so defensive about Obama and Islam? Could it have anything to do with:
– the guy bowing to the Saudi King?
– or dissing Israel in a way that resonates in the Arab world?
– or showing inappropriate deference to Iran’s mullahs?
– or changing NASA’s mission to Muslim outreach?
– or whitewashing the concept of Jihad?
– or endorsing the 13-storey GZM (imagine being at the ruins and hearing the call to prayer 5 times a day)
– or pretending that people who claim to kill infidels in the name of Islam aren’t doing so?
And suddenly, after all these acts and policies of Obama, as the anniversary of 9-11 approached, we were treated to a strange nexus of events. Some guy wanted to burn a Koran, and was warned (by the Secretary of Defense no less) that if he did so, Muslims would go nuts and kill people. And the Imam behind the Ground Zero Mosque warned us that if he did not build it at Ground Zero, Muslims would go nuts and kill people.
We’re not quite sure what all this adds up to, but part of it is that there’s only so much BS that a supermajority of the American people will put up with. On issue after issue, from Obamacare to Arizona, from unfinanceable deficits to purposeful Muslim violence, it seems that yet another tipping point has been reached. One of these days maybe we’ll all be ready to have a clear and straightforward discussion of what this war is really all about.
September 12th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
I see some guys are burning or trashing the Koran now … and they are being labeled as haters. “A hate-filled fanatic…”
I don’t know that he was hate filled, maybe he just didn’t think the FBI should come down hard on a pastor who only talked of the burning, hadn’t even done it.
“If they can burn American flags, I can burn the Koran,” the unidentified zealot shouted. “[Americans] should never be afraid to give their opinion.”
Witnesses said it was a ghastly display of fervor …
It could just be a demand for “equal time” with the America haters, to make a point that our free speech will not be sacrificed to mollify some radical terrorists. No big media, there is no moral equivalence between burning a Koran and murdering innocents.
The moral (somewhat) equivalent might be burning the Koran, versus burning the Bible or our flag. But the media praises Bill Ayers for flag burning and bombings. And Obama thinks Christians are bitter clingers, yet fabricates Muslim accomplishments to praise, while tasking NASA to making Muslims feel better about themselves.
hmmm
I noticed the same as you … the journalists insisted on saying the “idiots” had “incorrectly” identified Obama as Muslim. Well gee, how objective of them to have to inject that repeatedly. Are they now the “Ministry of Truth”?
How about this expansion to that poll.
Does Obama claim to be Christian?
Do Obama’s actions comport more to Christianity or black theology/Islam?
September 13th, 2010 at 1:16 am
Of course Presidente Zero is a Christian. Doesn’t every christian ask that christian symbols be covered up when they speak in a university chapel?
September 13th, 2010 at 8:06 am
By Muslim rules, which the media is ever so quick to acknowledge, Obama is a Muslim.
He may be an apostate. He may be a Christian. He is demonstrably a liar, so we cannot know what he actually believes. He was born to a Muslim father and he is a Muslim by their rules.
Why does the media apply a religious test, when none is allowed, and castigate the 24% of Americans who got the right answer to their trick question?