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| Turn back the barbarians at our gates |
| 2016-04-29 |
| By Marisa DeFranco [LowellSun.com] Some years back, my husband and I went to a friend's house for dinner. She was married to a French man. We got into a discussion of Muslim nations and the rights of women. The woman said that when she was in Morocco with her sister, they covered their heads for safety, but they did not like it. The man insisted she should have done it happily, that she must respect Muslim practices. I said I will never respect rank misogyny. His retort? In a most haughty voice, he said, "What do you know about cuulltuuurre?" My point, my husband's point and even my female friend's point could not get through his thick multi-cultural addled head. We will obey them if we are in their country, but only out of sheer self-preservation. We will hate every minute of subjugating our freedom to misogyny, and we will never afford a single shred of respect to any law that treats women as less than human. Befitting the baby mentality of a dogmatic multiculturalist, he finally said while pointing his finger at each of us, "I am not talking to you, I am not talking to you, and I am not talking to you!" Then, he stormed out the door. It's aggravating to be disrespected -- ah, irony -- by your dinner host, but at least it's not deadly. President Barack Obama's stubborn refusal to condemn Islamic terrorism is just that: deadly. His speech at the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque mirrored Mr. Multicultural's screed. Obama uses an I'm-oh-so-much-more-worldly-than-you-plebes tone to lecture us about who is in danger. He's "heartbroken" about Muslim anxieties? Why isn't our American president heartbroken over the dead Americans, French and Belgians? It is galling to watch this pandering to a particular faith, Islam, as if it is our job to be its therapist. Obama, you are not the therapist-in-chief. People's feelings get hurt all the time. Besides, no one is calling for anyone to hurt Muslims. We are simply having an appropriate reaction to cause and effect. Cause: Terrorism. Effect: Dead Americans. Cause: ISIS sending recruits here through our immigration system. Effect: Islamic terrorism. ISIS members are not Jewish, Christian, Catholic or Buddhist. They are Islamic. A perversion of it, to be sure, but facts are facts. Of late, I see Democratic pundits saying ISIS is not an "existential" threat. Good for you, you know the "E" word. Now try learning the "C" word: Caliphate. What part of "caliphate" do Obama and leftist Democrats not understand? How many more people must be slaughtered before our leaders wake up and smell the carnage? Nothing America is doing is creating terrorists. We could have an even-more-open-door policy on immigration. Hand out $100,000 a year to all Muslim immigrants. And open a 24-hour mosque in the White House and in every state's capitol building. ISIS, al Qaeda, al Shabab etc., still will kill us. How do our leaders get it so wrong? The fact that ISIS and al Qaeda dress their cause up in religion matters little to the end game, except in one dangerous way: It lures our leaders to do exactly what those on the left are doing -- hurling insults against those of us who want to protect America as an existing sovereign nation and an ideal. As a sovereign nation, our laws dictate against murder and mayhem in the name of religion, not the other way around. This is what I know about American culture, Mr. Multicultural. If you want to live in a place where all things such as terrorism, child brides, sex-trafficking, female genital mutilation, sex-selective abortions, rampant anti-Semitism and beheadings of dissenters are respected practices, you have lots of countries from which to choose. But we will not let America morph into such a place. E pluribus unum isn't just some jargon on our coins. It actually means something: out of many, one. One unified culture that respects life, liberty, and the freedom of and from religion. The barbarians will never be able to change what America stands for. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Belgrade, when the walls came down. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-04-29 14:09 |
| #7 The oddest thing about this is the fact that the Lowell Sun is a well known Massachusetts news paper. If people up here are starting to catch on there might be a smidgen of hope after all. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-04-29 13:09 |
| #6 Bush Sr missed many opportunities, that is why he was not re-elected. I don't vilify him but I'll never understand anyone that puts him up on a pedestal. He didn't understand or believe in Reagan's policies and allowed them to wither when he could have doubled down and made the world a much better place. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-04-29 10:37 |
| #5 WRT Bush.....I wasn't referring to Germany. I was referring to the U.S. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-04-29 10:26 |
| #4 Bush had no control whatsoever on the internal policy of the German government. No more than Roosevelt had over the Nazi government in the 1930s. |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2016-04-29 10:08 |
| #3 Both P2K and G are correct. George Bush Sr. was, to paraphrase Patton, in the right place, at the right time, with the right instruments to defund the left and destroy them in the U.S. when the wall came down. They would have howled like scalded cats regarding the loss of their public funding, but the mood of the country was such that they would have eventually been shouted down and been forced to find work elsewhere. Twenty five years on, this failure of Bush to de-communize, in the manner that Truman de-Nazified, can be seen as one of, if not the most, horrible failures to act decisively in domestic policy in U.S. history. It may turn out to have been an existential failure. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-04-29 08:11 |
| #2 Should have been done when the Wall came down. Now we reap the consequences for turning the other cheek. |
| Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2016-04-29 07:30 |
| #1 IMO, first we must deal with the quislings within. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-04-29 07:11 |