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One Reporter's Opinion
George Putnam
Friday, Aug. 10, 2007
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It is this reporter's
opinion, having lived through the scourges of communism under
Joseph Stalin and the Holocaust of Adolf Hitler, that I am in a
position to point to the dangers posed by an
even greater threat — radical Islam.
I hasten to add that I am referring only to
elements of radical Islam, not mainstream Muslims. The majority of
Muslims with whom we have been acquainted are decent, honest
people — well educated and knowledgeable in history and current
events.
But mainstream Muslims have an issue with
which they must deal — their overall failure to combat the
hijacking of their faith by a cadre of murderous ideologues.
In today's America you can burn our flag, but you cannot mistreat
the Quran.
According to my good friend talk show host
Aryeh Spero, burning the flag is freedom of expression but
mistreating the Quran is a criminal felony punishable under hate
crime legislation.
If you are a radical Muslim, you can wave
posters on college campuses calling for "killing the Jews,"
"destroying Israel," and declaring "Jews are sons of apes."
Many college administrators tell us this is
"free speech." Recently a student at Pace University in New York
was charged with a felony for stuffing a Koran in a toilet. The
Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR, the Muslim
mouthpiece, filed suit claiming it constituted a hate crime.
Stupid as the young student's act was, let's
recall that activists have done such things with the Christian
Bible, the Constitution, our flag. But when was the last time we
heard of an individual in America going to jail because he flushed
pages of a book down the toilet?
There are a
growing number of Americans who are speaking out against radical
Muslim insanity but not without violent consequences.
New York Times best-selling author Robert Spencer, in spite of
death threats, has written and documented, "The Truth About
Muhammed: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion." And
more recently, "Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam
Isn't." Spencer writes with a scalpel, every word thoroughly
researched and documented.
The truth about Muhammed has been banned by
the country of Pakistan (a hotbed of elements of radical Islam).
Our nation is based on equal justice under the law — not special
justice with more rights for one group over the rest of us.
Yet we find school administrators,
apparently afraid of angry, chanting, in-your-face Muslim
students, along with legal representatives from CAIR and the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ready to charge them with
racism and Islamophobia.
If they do not bend to the will of radical
Islamic demands on campus, when was the last time evangelicals
brought a college to court on the charge of "Christophobia?"
Yet the academics will never admit to the
fear which forces them to be sensitive to every radical Islamic
demand. To show you how the radical Islams fear the truth, Robert
Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, faced legal action if he
delivered a speech before the Young America's Foundation (YAF).
CAIR threatened to bring YAF to court if it
allowed Spencer to deliver his talk titled, "The truth about the
Council on American-Islamic Relations."
The CAIR attorney described Spencer as a
"purveyor of hatred and bigotry" amongst Muslims. Spencer charged
CAIR with being "false and defamatory." YAF President Ron Robinson
commented on the attempt to stifle Spencer with these words, "I
have been running this conference for 30 years and never had
anyone try to exercise prior restraint of a speaker."
It is to be noted that Spencer in his
address linked CAIR and Hamas, the largest militant movement in
Palestine. It is obvious that CAIR's overriding objective is to
silence all criticism of Islam and all investigation of the
elements of Islam that the Islamic jihadists are using to advance
their goals.
The oft-repeated goal of Islamic supremacy
should be of grave concern to the American people and their effort
to impose Sharia (Islamic) law in the United States.
Are Americans
whose country is based on equal justice under the law willing to
knuckle under to people who can burn the christian Bible but not
soak a Quran, where American museums can display depictions of
Mary in dung, Jesus in urine, yet prohibit demonstrating
disapproval and horror regarding verses in the Quran?
Is it not a hate crime when radical Islam
calls for the death of our children and threatens a Holocaust
against non-believing infidels? Let us not forget that fear,
physical fear, has caused great institutions to surrender when
headed by soft spined individuals.
It should come as no surprise that Muslim
chaplains are grabbing considerable success in our prisons.
Violent felons and radical Islam are a match made in heaven and
all too tragically Muslim youth are being deluded into believing
that 72 virgins await each of them after committing an act of
utter savagery.
We are facing a war on terror, an
ideological conflict in which Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,
atheists, and secular Muslims all have a monumental stake.
America — indeed the world — faces
perhaps the greatest threat ever, and on all fronts we face an
attempt to silence us. Radical Islam offers us a choice: Either
convert to their mindless radical hostility or die!
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"I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And
because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the
something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I
should do, by the grace of God, I will do."
- Edward Everett Hale
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