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2007-04-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by ryuge 2007-04-29 08:33|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I find Maher smarmy ... but if guests such as Ajami, Manji, and Ali have struck a nerve, so be it. Blacks robbing liquor stores don't claim they are doing the work of God under the cover of clerical fatwa.

Posted by doc 2007-04-29 09:15|| 2007-04-29 09:15|| Front Page Top

#2 In my case, everything I needed to know about Islam I learned on November 4, 1979; 9/11 was just yet another reminder.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-04-29 10:00|| 2007-04-29 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe the tagline at the end says it all:
Remi Kanazi is a Palestinian-American poet and writer based in New York City. He is the co-founder of www.PoeticInjustice.net and editor of the forthcoming anthology of poetry, "Poets for Palestine."

Why would anyone expect anything else from a Palestinian? We should ship him to Gaza so he can see how his poetry is appreciated by his fellow Palestinians. Hyphenated Americans should be deported to whatever country comes before the hyphen and have their American citizenship revoked.

Posted by RWV 2007-04-29 11:55|| 2007-04-29 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Arab American ~~Victims~~ News

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-29 13:42|| 2007-04-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#5

Regrettably, we have a plethora of examples to point to post-911, but we don't need to rehash all of it

No need to rehash what totally disproves Kanazis assertions, more likely.

More than happy to respond, Hirsi Ali proclaimed, "It's not a religion of peace. Immediately after 9/11 they should have said, it's not a religion of peace, we're up against Islam."

Which is what Bush and everyone else should have been saying from 9-12 onwards. It would have gone a long way towards isolating promoters of terrorism and militating the American public onto an effective war-footing.

What if Hirsi Ali said, "Immediately after the black thug robbed the liquor store, they should have said, black people are criminals, we're up against black people"?

But Hirsi didnt say that, now did she? Not all blacks subscribe to criminal behavior. However, all Muslims do subscribe to the Koran and it explicitly advocates violent jihad as a tool of global domination.

Maher's lesson on the malady of Islam followed up on his earlier comments in which he said that the West is not only better, but "superior" to the rest of world. Huh, I wonder why they don't like us.

I dont watch Maher, so I have nothing to say about him, but the notion that Islam hates the West for its superiority is absolutely true. The Wests amazingly successful democratic experiment and prosperous free market economy drives Islam, with its putatively more advanced culture, to absolute distraction whenever its forced to recognize how their own Neanderthal social model is still mired in the stone-age.

Bias against Arabs and Islamand bashing them as a monolithic entityis accepted across the news media

Bullshit, Islam gets a free ride nearly everywhere it appears in the MSM. This is total nonsense.

We should make fun of ourselves, our ethnicities, religions, and races, but when it is done in a vindictive nature or when a seemingly comedic joke or informative political comment is enveloped with racist, sexist, or bigoted undertones, it should be rejected by all peoples.

Especially when it involves some cartoons, right, Kenazi?

The only question left is how big of a gaffe is necessary for Americans to come to the defense of Arabs and Muslims?

There is no gaffe that can do it. Islam has had over half a decade to prove wrong the perceptions of it as a violent cult. Nowhere have there been the sort of routine mass demonstrations, aggressive reformation or counter-jihad measures that might have turned otherwise rational Western concerns into any sort of gaffe.

Remi Kanazi, the name says it all.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-29 18:03|| 2007-04-29 18:03|| Front Page Top

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