Thursday, August 10th, 2006
First they came for the Muslims…
Care to take a guess at the religion of the victims? If you said Christian or Jew, you’re WRONG. This was a Muslim family in Georgia. The wife is from Pittsburgh, PA, and the husband is from Pakistan. And this is the welcome they receive for trying to obtain the American Dream.
Now, I would be remiss if I were to suggest that this kind of thing is an everyday occurrence. However, it is part of a pattern of increasing hostility towards Muslims in this country. Just today, as everyone goes Code Brown over a plot to blow up America-bound flights from the U.K., a Gallup poll is released, and the results aren’t good:
Thirty-nine percent of respondents to the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll said they felt at least some prejudice against Muslims. The same percentage favored requiring Muslims, including U.S. citizens, to carry a special ID "as a means of preventing terrorist attacks in the United States." About one-third said U.S. Muslims were sympathetic to al-Qaeda, and 22% said they wouldn’t want Muslims as neighbors.
Fewer than half of respondents in that same poll believe that American Muslims are loyal Americans - a significant percentage of which probably believe that Muslims are subhuman scum worthy only of death. There have already been calls to shove every single Muslim into human-sized microwaves, which I’m sure would cause a bit more of this:
Probably the only way she hits the big-O with Jesse, anyway.
But hell’s bells, why stop at making Muslims carry ID (Papers, please!)? Why not make them wear red crecents? Why not vandalize Muslim-owned/operated businesses? Hell, why not go ahead and herd them into the human-sized microwave ovens? We could call it the "Last Answer to the Muslim Dilemma"!
Sweet Jesus. I weep for the future of this country that I was raised to love and defend to my dying breath.
Update: Holy crap. Satire is dead. I just re-read the Malkin post I linked to above, and she quite literally says: "the British Muslim problem"! She really is advocating genocide!!!
But I guess this is ok with you…
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/017.smt.html#017.4209
Comment by Anonymous — August 10, 2006 @ 5:43 pm
I never said that, and you know it. If you had actually bothered to read my blog before laying your asinine accusations on me, you’d see that I hold deep animus against ALL organized religion, because they are ALL too easily hijacked by people with an axe to grind. Hell, the Bible, especially the Old Testament, is full of this sort of nonsense. So don’t pretend that the other two Abrahamic religions deserve a free pass on this.
Comment by J. A. Baker — August 10, 2006 @ 9:22 pm