tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post7193604466171964085..comments2024-03-19T13:11:49.614-07:00Comments on Save Send Delete: Bulletproof Vests, Freedom of Speech, Pam Geller, The Southern Poverty Law Center, and What Are We Doing in Afghanistan? D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-28272219464441840022013-04-15T16:21:49.710-07:002013-04-15T16:21:49.710-07:00LR, thanks for reading and commenting.
LR, thanks for reading and commenting. <br /><br /><br /><br />D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-36417870764732747752013-04-15T13:31:46.485-07:002013-04-15T13:31:46.485-07:00Criticism of Jihadist ideology, female genital cut...Criticism of Jihadist ideology, female genital cutting, and honor killings is not an act of hate. It is an act of love—love for Muslims.<br /><br />I’m not familiar with Pamela Geller’s work, but even a casual perusal of her blog reveals that she is onto something important. That said, I would not support her blog if, say, she really did refer to the massacre in Srebrenica as “the Srebrenica Genocide Myth.” Or, if, say, she really did support apartheid in South Africa. <br /><br />Several passages in the SPLC piece are heroically stupid. You already mentioned the idiotic babble about Geller’s personal life, but what, really, is one to make of this? <br /><br />“Geller republished the 2005 cartoons of Muhammad from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, for example, when most other media demurred.”<br /><br />It is my opinion that Geller should be applauded for doing what the cowards at CNN and the BBC refused to do—stand up to every hate-mongering, resentful Muhammad fetishist between Brussels and Rawalpindi and protect a tiny democracy against the ugliest defamation. <br /><br />The above-mentioned passage (and several others in the SPLC piece) indicates that the SPLC has been overzealous in sipping the Kool-Aid. <br /><br />Thank you for sharing this. <br />Liron Rubinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-1522442423356557362013-04-15T07:30:24.405-07:002013-04-15T07:30:24.405-07:00I thought so. The title kind of gives it away. As...I thought so. The title kind of gives it away. As I said, we live in an Orwellian world.<br /><br />And, yes, I agree with you that Islam should be treated the same as any other religion. Either all are up for criticism, or none should be.<br /><br />But of course that is not in accordance with The Handbook of Political Correctness.Sue Knight's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597157298218651144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-57903776177737684742013-04-15T06:37:52.661-07:002013-04-15T06:37:52.661-07:00Sue, the SPLC has an endowment of $223.8 million, ...Sue, the SPLC has an endowment of $223.8 million, according to Wikipedia.<br /><br />Not poor.<br /><br />yes, about positive experiences with Muslims. I have had countless positive experiences with Muslims. In my experience, Muslims are truly hospital, helpful, caring, respectful. <br /><br />That's why I always limit my criticism to jihad, gender apartheid, and application of Sharia to those who don't choose voluntarily to live under Sharia. <br /><br />I don't criticize these aspects of Islam any differently than I criticize aspects of my own faith with which I disagree, or, indeed, of your Jehovah's Witness beliefs. D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-86218940324693698212013-04-15T01:35:26.310-07:002013-04-15T01:35:26.310-07:00I just posted this comment on Facebook:
"She ...I just posted this comment on Facebook:<br />"She dresses badly! I am horrified. But didn't the Nazis always look very smart in their stylish uniforms? So, if dress is the moral basis for judgement, is that a doubleplusgood for them? Danusha, you are so good at writing about the Newspeak world we live in. And I am so sorry about the death of Greg Buckley Junior. But what on earth were we doing in Afghanistan? Every century it seems, the West invades Afghanistan, and a lot of people on both sides die, and nothing ever seems to be achieved or learnt. The situation re Muslims/Islam has been made into an area swarming with the crocodiles of Political Correctness. I don't know what to say about it myself. At the moment, Muslims have been granted strong PC-protection. And I feel I must not grudge it to them as I know only too well (as a Polonian) what life is like when you are awarded "unter" status by The Little Red Book of Political Correctness. I wouldn't want that to happen to them - or anyone. If they could lend me a cup occasionally though I would be quite grateful."<br /><br /><br />The only other thing I would want to say is to ask about this Southern Poverty Law Centre. Are those who run it poor? Or not?<br /><br />Oh, and something further re Islam. We lived in Saudi Arabia for many years, as you know. And I am very grateful to the Saudis for keeping us in work all those years, giving us a wonderful company hospital, great acoommodation (we even had a swimming pool in our last few years - something we would never be able to afford here)- and savings for our retirement. <br /><br />Also, as we lived in what was very much small town America, I encountered this agenda about Poles - sorry "dumb Polaks" - for the first time. It was a shock. And it has been an ever bigger shock to find us now being revised (by sections of America's media and its Academe) into the Evil Masterminds behind the horrors of WW2. Well, behind the horrors that matter in the political sense that is. We are being blamed for the crimes of the Axis, who we fought against, but not being blamed for the crimes of the Allies, on whose side we fought. <br /><br />The point being that in all those years, when I did hear some contemptuous words about my dear aged father from some Americans - not all, by any means - I never heard anyhing like that from any Saudi, or indeed any Muslim. If they ever spoke of my father they would say something like "What was his honoured name?"<br /><br />It was a lovely contrast - and to show my gratitude I always try to speak very positively of my years in Saudi. And, like any country, it has its positives and its negatives.<br /><br />But I try to stick to the positives.Sue Knight's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597157298218651144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-12836463347489611822013-04-14T16:53:04.092-07:002013-04-14T16:53:04.092-07:00Danusha-
Thank you for posting this engaging a...Danusha-<br /><br /> Thank you for posting this engaging account. I will not soon forget your chilling narrative of the circumstances and manner in which you learned of jihad.<br /><br />Larry S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com