RE Sam Stein's article "Harry Reid: Mosque Should Be Built Somewhere Else"
See, this is why it's sometimes hard to respect Democrats, even if you are one as I am, and you're trying so hard to respect them that you're burning lean muscle, not just fat. I thought the President's remarks on the near-Ground Zero mosque issue were acceptable -- after all, it isn't his job to pronounce sentence on the "wisdom" of building any kind of house of worship anywhere. There's a good constitutional basis for the attitude he's struck up. But I can't be that generous about Harry Reid's remarks -- I rather like old Harry Reid and the word "moron" in my post title doesn't refer to him but rather to mosque-haters, but to me, the statement cited in the article just sounds like caving in to idiocy and xenophobia.
Democrats do that a lot -- they never seem to learn that when you compromise with utter knaves and raving imbeciles, there's no arriving at a middle ground that makes you look like a practitioner of the fine art of the possible that is politics. You end up tumbling down the rabbit hole and into the abyss, where your only consolation will be to recollect ad infinitum Sam Johnson's wonderful line, "Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation." If I didn't enjoy reading the Inestimable Dr. Johnson so much, I'd say that's pretty poor consolation.
I'm kind of ticked off at both of them. I simply don't understand why they keep trying to appease a bunch of goons/morons/crazies who have no interest in "appeasement."
ReplyDeleteThat's such a wonderful quote. I have it in a notebook somewhere and if I had used it earlier, I could have saved everyone a lot of blather.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, where do you stop and where is the sign that we are stopping? It just seems to get crazier and crazier with people who insist that the constitution is inviolable passionately trying to violate it. Where does the Federal government derive the power to say "this ground is too sacred for anything but Christians?"
The same people who insisted that we needed all those wars despite the will of the people are saying the government needs to listen to the will of the people and not to the law. Apparently not all those people are Republicans.
Thanks Harry.
ReplyDeleteOne could forgive (perhaps) a freshman congressmember such a f**kup but not the Senate Majority Leader. It's depressing but the sad fact is the Democrats lack any message and any discipline at all. At this rate November wont be pretty.
The question remains. Is Reid a moral coward or a Republican plant?
Wait. That's not really an either/or choice.
Not a good day for anyone looking for a touch of silver lining.
Mighty Christian of these folks: Most vociferously opposed to the Ground Zero Mosque is the Southern Baptist Convention.
ReplyDelete“I take a back seat to no one when it comes to religious freedom and religious belief and the right to express that belief, even beliefs that I find abhorrent," said Richard Land, president of SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, on his weekly radio program. "But what I don't do is I don't say that religious freedom means that you have the right to build a place of worship anywhere that you want to build them."
It motivates me to circulate a petition that states: “If you will not allow other denominations to practice their faith subject to the same freedoms you have enjoyed, then get your damn church the hell out of my neighborhood.” Hypocrites!
It is too bad this story never made it into our mainstream media: American Imams visit Auschwitz and Dachau:
ReplyDelete“ Mohamed Magid, imam and executive director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, a mega-mosque in the Washington area that serves more than 5,000 families, is preparing an article on Holocaust denial for Islamic Horizons, the magazine published by the Islamic Society of North America. “No Muslim in his right mind, female or male, should deny the Holocaust,” said the Muslim leader, a native of Sudan. “When you walk the walk of the people who have been taken to be gassed, to be killed, how can a person deny physical evidence, something that’s beyond doubt?
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Qadhi stressed the importance for Jews and Muslims to understand and accept each other’s narratives of suffering. “There’s no denying that we have problems we need to talk about, but dehumanizing the other is not going to solve our problems. I hope that both sides, Muslims and Jews, can overcome stereotypes that they have of the other. If we stick together, we will no longer be a minority. But if we continue to remain minorities trying to stereotype other minorities, then we’ll be lost,” he concluded.”
The Monday night wrestling crowd prefers gladiatorial combat, fear-mongering, and sensationalism; and our MSM caters to this rabble. Meanwhile, the important and inspirational stories get lost beneath the spectacle and demagoguery.