[R-G] Pat Buchanan Is Wrong About Islam

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Pat Buchanan Is Wrong About Islam
            by 
              Fred Reed

              by Fred Reed 

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             Much 
              hoorah, there is, over the mosque that may or may not be built in 
              New York. I don’t give a tinker’s damn (whatever precisely 
              that may be; I presume that tinkers’ oaths were thought more 
              efficacious than others) whether they build it or not. The matter 
              does however put to rest for me any hope of rationality in human 
              affairs. This, I grant, could be accomplished with a very small 
              bed.
            At this writing, 
              the government’s war for oil and AIPAC has more or less solidly 
              metamorphosed, among the rubes at least, into a war against Islam. 
              Men of thunder and portent peddle the notion like starving encyclopedia 
              salesmen. No less a political howitzer than Pat Buchanan says that 
              the mosque should not be built, because of the religious motivation 
              of the Saudis who attacked the towers. His view has been eagerly 
              received by the populace. Now it seems that yahoos at some fourth-grade 
              church in Florida plan to burn a Koran to commemorate 9/11.
            
               
                 
                

              
            
            Splendid, this. 
              We are telling 1.3 billion Moslems that America is not fighting 
              Al Qaeda, or the Taliban, or Terror. No. It is Islam itself we hate. 
              How very wise. This will make it so much easier to win hearts and 
              minds in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Those security forces that GIs 
              are supposed to be training – the ones with the AKs – 
              they will know that their trainers are their enemies. Curiously, 
              this is just what bin Laden tells them.
            Glands again 
              trump minds, if any. Consider that ten minutes before the first 
              tower got hit in New York, the thought had occurred to practically 
              no one in America that Islam constituted a mortal threat to all 
              that we hold holy, chiefly chain restaurants and iPods. But Islam 
              afterwards offered to fill this void that the Russians had wimped 
              out on. For a brief period after the implosion of the Soviet Union, 
              Americans had no threat to worry about. They found it deeply puzzling. 
              Weren’t we supposed to be afraid of something? It didn’t 
              feel right.
            
               
                 
                   
                  
                

              
            
            Then came New 
              York, and suddenly we saw it: The Clash of Civilizations. Islam 
              was out to get us. Why hadn’t we noticed? A roaring hatred 
              for Moslems sprang up from people who had never met a Moslem, who 
              had a garden slug’s grasp of history. A deep satisfaction came 
              over the land. We had been made whole again.
            Battling Mohammedans 
              quickly became an industry. The government at first tried to peddle 
              Terrorism as the enemy, not Islam, but it didn’t stick. Something 
              more robustly flackable was wanted.
            I find Buchanan, 
              of the American Conservative, proclaiming that Islam is a 
              Culture of Jihad, and most militant. No doubt. Very. Would it be 
              poltroonish of me to note that just now Christian armies are busily 
              annexing and wrecking Afghanistan and Iraq, having recently bombed 
              Somalia? That they use robotic aircraft to murder Yemenis, that 
              they hunt down Moslems in the Philippines (where after 1898 Americans 
              engaged in atrocities that would win the admiration of the Japanese), 
              encourage Israel to ruin Lebanon and to run a concentration camp 
              for Moslems in Gaza, enthusiastically murder Pakistanis from the 
              sky, and threaten Syria and Iran? 
            Those Moslems. 
              Militant, they are. The bastards.
            The Islamic 
              countries listed above are only those currently attacked by America. 
              Let us look at the matter in another way. I append here a list of 
              all Christian countries conquered by militant Moslems since 1529:
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            Next, a partial 
              list of Moslem countries conquered by Christians: Morocco, Algeria, 
              Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, 
              Iraq (the first time), Iraq (again), Iran, Pakistan, East Pakistan, 
              Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Abu Dhabi, Dubai….
            This list does 
              not include such minor Christian conquests as North, South, and 
              Central America, India, China, Southeast Asia, black Africa, and 
              such. Unconscionable, Moslem aggressiveness is.
            Buchanan regards 
              the events of 9/11 as no end grievous. So do I. Yet perhaps people 
              who live in glass pots and kettles shouldn’t call names. The 
              UN’s figures give 600,000 Iraqi children dead because of the 
              American embargo, which didn’t allow, for example, chlorine 
              to sterilize water. This is equivalent to 6.4 million dead children 
              in the United States. Hmmm: If Moslems had killed this trifling 
              number of our sprats, might we wax grumpish?
            Yes, I know, 
              the UN is a commie Marxist socialist anti-American conspiracy, and 
              not as trustworthy as the American propaganda apparatus. All right. 
              Let’s assume that the UN lied by a factor of ten, and thus 
              only 60,000 Iraqi children died thanks to us. Thus, if 3,000 Americans 
              died in New York, we owe the Moslems some 57,000. No?
            If I may sally 
              briefly into unloved seriousness: What puzzles me, as one who has 
              lived extensively abroad, is how little Americans are able to see 
              things through the eyes of others, how little empathy they have 
              (this latter defect being characteristic of both psychopaths and 
              narcissists).
            
               
                 
                   
                  
                

              
            
            Consider a 
              headline from Antiwar.com of a 
              sort appearing almost daily: “US Drone Strike Destroys House 
              Full of Children in Pakistan.”
            
               
                 
                   
                  
                

              
            
            Apparently 
              no one in the Great Rubber Room north of Mexico has an inkling why 
              this might arouse hatred in Pakistanis. Can you imagine the fury 
              that would ensue if a Moslem blew up a house full of American kids 
              in, say, Queens? But when we kill their kids, no one cares. “Yeah, 
              well. Tough. Giv’em a few dollars.” Buncha dirty raghead 
              larvae. No better than cockroaches, right?
            Now, we’re 
              going to have a pop quiz. Take out a sheet of paper. Question: Can 
              you think of any reason why Moslems might be unhappy with America?
            Right! They 
              hate our freedoms.
            In which case 
              they daily have less to hate us for.
            It doesn’t 
              pay to underestimate an enemy, I hear. All right: Moslems are so 
              very dangerous not just because of their many extremist groups – Salamists, 
              Al Sushis, the Falafel, and the Wasabi for example – but because 
              of their immense industrial strength, which doesn’t exist. 
              With the possible exception of Turkey, not one Islamic nation is 
              in the First World. I picture bearded, turbaned warriors wading 
              ashore on aquatic camels, causing no end of panic in Atlantic City. 
              I mean, what do camels eat?
            The horror.
            Herewith a 
              searing insight for the ever-puzzled State Department: Actions have 
              consequences. If you support Batista, you will engender Fidel. If 
              you support the Shah, you will get Khomeini. If you attack Moslems, 
              you will get bin Laden. It might be better to stay home and read 
              a book.
            September 
              9, 2010
            Fred Reed 
              is author of Nekkid 
              in Austin: Drop Your Inner Child Down a Well and A 
              Brass Pole in Bangkok: A Thing I Aspire to Be. His latest 
              book is Curmudgeing 
              Through Paradise: Reports from a Fractal Dung Beetle. Visit 
              his blog.
            Copyright 
              © 2010 Fred Reed
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