CAN ISLAMOPHOBIA BE RATIONAL AND NON-RACIST?

HERE'S THE LATEST MEME FROM THE LEFT:

The Onion:

Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims — SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.

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Discussion: Indecision Forever, The Plum Line, The New Republic and Little Green Footballs

THE ONION IS OF COURSE SATIRE.

BUT THE ABOVE ARTICLE - AND THOSE LINKING TO IT - REVEALS WHAT THE LEFT FEELS ABOUT THOSE OF US WHO ARE NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT AND WHO DO COURAGEOUSLY ATTACK ISLAM FOR WHAT IT IS AND HAS BEEN FOR A THOUSAND YEARS: A GENOCIDAL POLITICAL IDEOLOGY.

THEY ACCUSE OF RACISM. (DESPITE THE FACT THAT ISLAM IS NOT A RACE, BUT AN IDEOLOGY!)

WE ARE NOT IRRATIONALLY AFRAID OF ISLAM OR IRRATIONALLY HATEFUL OF IT.

IT IS RATIONAL TO FEAR AND HATE WHAT ISLAM HAS REAPED.

THE LEFT SEEMS TO FEEL THAT WE CANNOT DO THIS WITHOUT BEING HATEFUL OF ALL 1.5 BILLION MUSLIMS.

THIS IS LUDICROUS.

• LIBERALS ATTACK THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ALL THE TIME - ON THE PRIEST ABUSE ISSUE, AND ON ABORTION AND ON MANY OTHER ISSUES.

• THEY DO THIS WITHOUT ATTACKING ALL 1.2 BILLION ROMAN CATHOLICS, AND WITHOUT ATTACKING ALL 2.5 BILLION CHRISTIANS.

• THEY DO THIS WITHOUT BEING CALLED CHRISTIAN-O-PHOBIC.

• IF THEY CAN CRITICIZE RC CHURCH TEACHING WITHOUT BEING CALLED RACISTS WHO ARE IDIOTICALLY ATTACKING OVER A BILLION INNOCENT PEOPLE, THEN WE CAN ATTACK THE MUCH MORE GENOCIDAL AND MORE MISOGYNISTIC AND MORE INTOLERANT ISLAM IDEOLOGY WITHOUT BEING CHARGED WITH THE LIKE.

WE DON'T PRETEND TO LOOK INTO THE HEARTS OF ALL MUSLIMS OR TO KNOW WHAT LURKS DEEP INSIDE THEIR MINDS.

WE LOOK INSIDE THEIR "HOLY" BOOKS AND AT THE ROLE THEIR RELIGION HAS PLAYED IN HUMANITY'S HISTORY, AND WE SEE THINGS INIMICAL TO MODERNITY, DEMOCRACY, PLURALISM AND LIBERTY.

IN SHORT, WE SOMETHING THAT'S CLEARLY A THREAT TO OUR WAY OF LIFE.

• WE SEE SOMETHING ALIEN TO OUR CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTIVE TO OUR CORE VALUES.

• REPEAT: WE SEE A THREAT.

• AND WE AIM TO PREVENT THIS THREAT FROM DESTROYING US.

MOST OF THE WORLD'S MUSLIMS DO NOT READ THE KORAN OR THE SURA OR THE HADITH.

ISLAM TO THEM IS WHATEVER THEIR IMAM TELLS THEM IT IS.

IF THEIR IMAM IS NOT A JIHADIST, THEN THEY'RE PROBABLY OKAY.

BUT IF THEIR IMAM IS LIKE IMAM QARDAWI OR RAUF OR ZAWAHIRI OR KHAMEINI THEN THEY'RE EITHER A THREAT OR THEIR KIDS WILL BE.

IN A SENSE - BY FAVORING THE ANNIHILATION OF THE JIHADISTS/ISLAMO-FASCISTS, WE "CREATE OR SAVE" (TO BORROW A PHRASE!) ISLAM FOR THOSE WHO FEEL IT'S NOT WHAT THE SALAFISTS OR THE WAHABISTS OR THE QUTUBISTS SAY IT IS.

SO WE ARE REALLY THE ONES WHO ARE REALLY ON THE SIDE OF THE "ONE BILLION MODERATE MUSLIMS"!