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| What Are the Metaphysics of Islamic Denial? |
| 2015-02-02 |
| After six years, it is no surprise that the Obama administration does not see the Taliban as 'terrorists' or that it will not associate 'violent extremism' with radical Islam or just Islam. After all, when Maj. Hasan murdered U.S. soldiers it was nothing more than 'workplace violence,' as if he were a disgruntled post office employee of the 1970s. Our two top intelligence chiefs assured us that the Muslim Brotherhood was 'largely secular' and that jihad 'was a legitimate tenet of Islam.' Add in 'workplace violence' and the old 'overseas contingency operations.' Do we remember that Ms. Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security warned us about right-wing returning veterans as the most likely to terrorize us? When someone blows up people at the Boston Marathon, beheads a woman in Oklahoma, or puts a hatchet in a NYPD officer's head, he is not a terrorist or proselytizer fueled by Islamic hatred of non-Muslims as much as mentally confused. (I suppose in a way that a Hitler or Stalin was not.) The problem is not that the administration is just too fond of euphemisms. At times it can be quite candid. The Republican House has been characterized as 'terrorists' [1] in their efforts to stop more federal borrowing. The Tea Party was slurred as 'tea-baggers' [2] ' a derogative sexual term [3]. Mr. Netanyahu is variously a 'coward' or 'chickensh-t' [4] ' pejoratives not floated for even the vicious Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So why the elaborate facade about the Islamic roots of global terrorism and spreading instability in the Middle East? There are a few possible explanations. Me, I just think it's an aspect of dealing with people who been trained to demonstrate their "superior intellect" by rejecting common sense. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Just another aspect of Christianophobia by the usual crowd. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-02-02 19:02 |
| #1 Why is Islamic denial the consensus position of the Western political class? That a person with Obama's political background is sympathetic to a totalitarian, primitivist and regressive ideology is no surprise. But why is this political position so entrenched and consensual that even small deviations (like Romney's tame but common sense defense of free speech in 2012) are sharply rebuked and universally condemned? Why doesn't any serious Western politician actually challenge the axioms of Islamic denial? There's something deeply wrong with the West. And Obama isn't the cause, if anything he's a symptom. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-02-02 16:41 |