First They Came...
It's the 1930s in Germany all over again...
An excellent short by Michelle Malkin on the current Islamic furor over the Muhammed cartoons.
Do you honestly think that the events of the last few days are just a spontaneous protest? Check out her website: All the placards in London appear to be written in the same hand; "protestors" burn two embassies in Damascus, Syria, capital of a regime that is feeling a little squeezed by the Americans at this point in time; a Danish imam admits to faking a additional and more inflammatory cartoons he brought to when he flew to the ME to incite a revolution publish them there.
It's the 1930s in Germany all over again...
That clip is anything but excellent.
First of all Pim Fortuyn's murder had nothing to do with islam. "They" didn't kill him, Volkert van der Graaf (a lone Dutch extreme environmentalist with no ties to islam or muslims whatsoever), murdered him to "procect the weaker in the society". With that he meant the disabled, people who are on welfare, muslims, asylum seekers and such.
But wait, he mentions muslims, let's blame the murder on them! Those images of his bloody corpse sure worked in that clip!
Secondly I don't like the it's trying to scare us of "them", without actually telling us who "they" are. I get the impression that by "they" she all muslims, and that just pissed me off.
Posted by: RJ | February 09, 2006 at 03:48 AM
It is important to name who "they" are, and they are radical Islamists. Of course, they are not all Muslims.
The Guardian, not exactly pro-US, says Fortuyn's murderer did it for the Muslims. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924080,00.html And the unity of extreme zealots, whether eco, race, or whatever, is not unusual.
But why do you think no US paper has printed the cartoons? Because they are afraid, and I don't blame them.
My Dutch friend asked her moderate Muslim friends what they thought of Fortuyn, and they said, of course we would have voted for him, we know what the radicals can do. Moderates know exactly who "they" are. They were forced to emigrate because of them.
And, no, Malkin does not lump all of "them" together, IMO.
Posted by: Patricia | February 09, 2006 at 07:47 AM