September 21, 2007
Who's Afraid Of
The Big Bad Wolf?
Vol. 2 Issue14
There has and continues to be much talk
about the Liberal Left that denies there is
a war
against terror. Even democratic candidate
John Edwards said there is no war on terror.
He
said it was a "Bush bumper sticker slogan,
used to justify the war in Iraq and bludgeon
his
political opponents."
Edward's now declares his independence
from a phrase that politicians have been
brandishing
with vigor for over five years. At a recent
Democrat debate in South Carolina, moderator
Brian Williams, of NBC, asked the eight
candidates: "Show of hands question: Do you
believe
there is such a thing as a global war on
terror?"
Senator Hillary Clinton's hand shot up.
After some noticeable hesitation, Senator
Barack
Obama joined her. Edwards did not raise his
hand. He told Time Magazine in an interview
that
he will no longer use what he views as "a
Bush-created political phrase."
In a 2006 article by Heather Mac Donald
for the National Review, she wrote, "It's
official:
The Left doesn't believe that Islamic
terrorism exists. According to the American
Civil
Liberties Union, terror watch lists are
nothing more than the product of John
Ashcroft's
paranoid imagination, and should play no
more role in government policy than a
compendium
of his favorite anthems. The ACLU's
dismissal of terror information is just the
latest
manifestation of the Left's blindness to
national-security reality. The only
remaining question
is why such postures continue to influence
national defense."
I have to respectfully disagree with Ms.
Mac Donald. The Left does acknowledge there
is a
war on terror, they just do it by what has
become a submission to demands by terrorist
sympathizers, mostly Muslim activist groups,
like C.A.I.R. with the blessing of the ACLU.
It is what I call the "Bully Syndrome." When
I was in school the bully of the class would
terrorize all of the other students by
pushing them around and creating an
atmosphere of
fear and intimidation.
Most people tried to appease the bully
(terrorist) by giving in to their demands.
How does this equate to the current war
on terror? Suddenly we find that since 9/11
there
has and continues to be unbelievable
accommodations to appease the Muslim
community, so
just as the bully,(terrorist) they will not
bother us. Most of these accommodations have
been
put in place by the liberal left with the
blessings of the ACLU and upheld by liberal
activist
judges; all in the name of Political
Correctness.
If we were to look back prior to 9/11 you
will see that the Muslim community was going
about their business, being part of their
community. They never made demands that we
bend over backwards to accommodate them.
There was not any discrimination against the
Muslim community as a whole. Even during the
days after 9/11, it was made clear that the
Muslim community in America was not in
compliance with the terrorists. There may
have
been an atmosphere of fear amongst some
Muslims because they may have felt somewhat
guilty by association. After all, Muslims
committed the dirty dead. Just as some
peaceful
Germans felt guilt over the Holocaust after
the war.
So why do I believe the Liberal Left
really believes there is a war on terror -
because they
are trying to appease the Muslims with
concessions that we do not afford any other
religious
group in America today; in effect trying to
appease the bully.
The latest battleground over religious
accommodation is the San Diego public school
system.
Every day in a San Diego public school, an
employee of the Board of Education comes
into a
classroom and leads the students in daily
Muslim prayer. No other religious group,
Christian,
Jewish or Mormon are allowed to have their
own prayer service. The ACLU claims to allow
Christian's and Jews to pray would be a
violation of the first amendment's provision
of
separation of church and state. And, Muslim
prayer services are not? It will not be long
before it comes to a school near you. So,
where is the outrage?
In federal prisons, they are removing all
religious books in the libraries. However,
the issuing
of the Quran to Muslim prisoners is
permitted. Where is the outrage?
Congressman Ellison (D-MN) was sworn in
as a member of Congress with his hand on the
Quran not the traditional bible that has
been used since the first congress. If
Senator Joe
Lieberman (D-CT), a Jew, wanted to be sworn
in holding the Torah, he would have been
laughed out of the Senate. Where is the
outrage?
College campuses are installing footbaths
for Muslim students. Religious
accommodations for
any other organized religious are forbidden.
Where is the outrage?
Airport terminals are setting aside
prayer rooms for Muslim travelers, but
Christians, Jews or
any other religious group are not
accommodated. Where is the outrage?
Stephen Jukes, Reuters' global head of
news, decreed in an internal memo, that the
giant
wire service's 2,500 journalists should not
use the T-word unless in a direct quote. "We
all
know that ones man's terrorist is another
man's freedom fighter and that Reuters
uphold the
principle that we do not use the word
terrorists."
Why is it that we must appease the
Muslims by giving in to their intimidating
demands?
However, when it comes to wanting to
recognize that there really is a war on
terror, the left
admonishes and berates those who want to
remember what took place on September 11.
How long will it be before we start to
recognize Sharia law and prosecute Muslim
offenders
of U.S. Laws under Sharia Law? It is
happening in Germany.
In an article written for Town Hall,
Sept. 11, 2007, Lisa De Pasquale wrote of a
High School
student she had featured in a previous
article.
"Last week I wrote about students who are
bucking the trend of today’s college
campuses
and speaking out as conservatives. After
reading my column mentioning high school
senior
Toni Woods, her teacher asked her, 'Why
would anyone talk about a 16-year-old no-
nothing?' After word got around about the
article, another teacher called Toni a
"traitor."
After years of teaching with a liberal bias,
Toni went off and became a conservative. How
dare she! There are thousands of young
conservatives that walk into classrooms
every day
with a smile and the intent to annoy their
liberal professors."
Two girls at Walt Whitman High School in
New York were told by their principal that
Never
Forget buttons they had made up could not be
distributed because their "pins could be
used
as weapons." Some other excuses used by
various administrators from others schools
included calling the flags a fire hazard
(only the left could come up with this one)
and
insisting that the campus conservatives must
camp outside so the flags could be watched
24
hours-a-day.
Today’s children are members of a new
generation - the September 11 Generation.
In a poll conducted by Dr. Drew Pinsky of
the Tarrance Group for the Independent
Women’s
Forum, showed nearly every student said
September 11 changed their behavior. Many
said
they now pray more or volunteer more. Pinsky
observed, "I think that the students have
changed – my perspective is that their
attitude has shifted from a sense of
entitlement to
one of gratitude."
It seems like the woodsman hero of
"Little Red Riding Hood" is beginning to
reappear to fight
off the constituents of the big bad wolf,
whom the left claims does not exist. Wake up
America before it is too late.
And, that is my opinion.
Michael Solomon
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