I do think perhaps AP figures we can fisk it ourselves. He doesn’t have any soft bigotry of low expectations of the commenters.

INC on August 19, 2007 at 8:05 PM

Heh. Indeed.

On Tuesday evening, CNN will debut a three-part series called God’s Warriors. The series, devoted to an examination of “religious fundamentalism,” is created and hosted by Christiane Amanpour; the first segment, to be aired Tuesday, is called “Jewish Warriors;” Wednesday’s show is “Muslim Warriors,” followed by “Christian Warriors” on Thursday.

Kind of looks like the MSM decided to do an all out all-religions-are-equivalent propaganda push, doesn’t it?

PL goes on to say:

While these three topics are treated as though they were on a par, there are some obvious distinctions. Like, the Christian “warriors” are home-schooling their children, while the Muslim “warriors” are blowing people up. If this Associated Press account is accurate, CNN’s series is devoted to obfuscating such obvious differences rather than elucidating them.

For example:

Another segment tried to explain why so many devout Muslims are willing to give their lives to a cause.

“To the West, martyrdom has a really bad connotation because of suicide bombers who call themselves martyrs,” [Amanpour] said. “Really, martyrdom is actually something that historically was quite noble, because it was about standing up and rejecting tyranny, rejecting injustice and rejecting oppression and, if necessary, dying for that.”

Good grief!!!! Yet another uniformed liberal taking a word and trying to put it into terms of social revolution. The word martyr is a transliteration from the Greek word martus or martur and it means witness. According to W. E. Vine, it denotes one who can or does aver what he has seen or heard or knows. All Christians are to be witnesses to their faith, some have died because of persecution due to that witness.

Well, it should be interesting to see that latest unfolding of Leftist slander, in their continuing effort to try to paint conservative Jews and Christians with the same brush as terrorists who like to blow people up.

When I read things like this sometimes I begin to think there is a malicious game afoot to begin laying the groundwork to justify shutting down churches and placing legal restrictions on Christian and Jewish practice, all in the name of protecting America from fundamentalists. When in reality, the problem is not whether you’re a fundamentalist, but what the fundamentals tenets actually are that you believe.

I do think perhaps AP figures we can fisk it ourselves. He doesn’t have any soft bigotry of low expectations of the commenters.

But we need to recognize that coping is the order of the day, not defending high principle, and that our expectations should remain low. So long as a sizable population believes in the truth of a comprehensive political theology, its full reconciliation with modern liberal democracy cannot be expected.

Mark Lilla would have liberal-democratic peoples stop defending high principle and learn just to cope with muslims’ own unwillingness to stop defending high principle. He says they should acquiesce in the low expectation that muslims will keep their own high expectation of universal Shariah. “The soft bigotry of low expectations” has gone in a single step from being the Right’s accusation against the Left, to being the explicit doctrine of a left-liberal writer. One-way multi-culturalism has gone, in a single step, from being sold as a progressive doctrine to being sold as a doctrine of despair.

This blog post would be improved by commentary to accompany the bare quotation of that Times writer and explicitly challenge his half-baked thinking. Unless someone can do better than my preceding paragraph, I propose it be made an update to the post.

Actually I believe that quotes of that nature are the reason that congress insured that civics are no longer taught in public schools. Wouldn’t want the up and coming electorate to understand that according to the Founding Fathers more government was not a desirable concept and that those holding office should not be given unquestioned trust…

Alexander Hamilton:

A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.

A couple more on power:

Thomas Jefferson:

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

James Madison:

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Maybe remedial US civics should be required in the halls of Congress and with the press corps.

‘The Armenians and Kurds rock’ – Don’t forget about the Albanians, and the majority of the Iranian civilian population.

The Albanians are not friendly towards the US, they just tricked the US/UK into bombing Bosnia on their behalf and are now trying to carve out a huge-sized chunk of Serbia and add it to the Dar al-Islam.

Not complicated at all! Jesus built His Church on the confession of Jesus as Christ, the Son of the living God! Good news indeed!

Luther helped bring the Bible to the people. That’s all I’m saying. I’m not Lutheran, although I have great friends who are. I’m not particularly Calvinistic, although I know people who are. I prefer not to major on the minor points. Main point is, Jesus paid the price, all you gotta do is accept His awesome gift. Then if you allow Him too, He will conform you into the image of Christ! I think Luther and Calvin can get on board with that :-)

Anyhow, what your buds L&C did was form a pseudo-Christianity, based on their personal opinions, not on the teachings of Jesus Christ. It’s not complicated – just read Matthew 16:18.

INC on August 19, 2007 at 12:11 AM

Great comments.

Just watched that MEMRI video, what a crock! And these creatures control the worlds’ supply of oil? C’mon hydrogen power! The sooner we stop dealing with these crackpots, the better.

countywolf on August 19, 2007 at 11:18 AM

Hydrogen is not a power. It is just a state of power storage. There is no hydrogen that can be had freely or cheaply. It takes energy to get it and then gives a portion of that energy back when you join it back with oxygen.

We need massive amounts of nuke energy, wind, solar, hydro, and at the same time exploit every square inch of oil field in Ca, Ak,offshore, etc.

Also we all need to conserve as much as we can.

A guy and a culture that wipes with their frickin hand telling us, the culture that;

Invented Plumbing,

I’m not sure that Western culture was the first to have plumbing. If I recall correctly, the Indus Valley civilization had plumbing.

This culture, which existed from around 2500 BC to 1500 BC in what is now Pakistan, is known mainly for two archaeological sites, Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. They also are reported to have traded with Mesopotamia to the west.

However, because this was pre-Islamic Pakistan, modern Pakistanis don’t have much respect for it, since muslims consider pre-Islamic cultures to be “darkness”.

As Fall chilled the land, a wandering, battered-down porcupine stumbled upon the entrance to a cozy cave where he thought to escape the elements, only to discover that it was already inhabited by a family of snakes.

“Would it be okay with you if I moved into one corner of your cave for shelter?” the porcupine asked them.

The snakes generously offered to share their home with the sad-looking porcupine, so he moved in, and then, to their surprise, opened up all of his prickly quills to stretch out for the Winter.

The snakes soon realized that they had made a painful mistake, because every time one of them now moved, they would be jabbed by one of their vistor’s sharp quills.

The snakes finally got up their courage to complain about their discomfort to the porcupine.

“Well, that’s too bad,” he replied. “I’m most comfortable here as things are. But if you snakes aren’t satisifed, why don’t you just move?”

And he stretched out his quills even wider.
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With Islam as the Porcupine and infidel lands as the Snakes, it fits perfectly.*

(*La Raza is a close second.)

And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.—Luke 20:25
With those words, civil government was rendered distinct from Christian theology. End of argument.

HerrMorgenholz on August 19, 2007 at 8:31 AM

I guess that is a good start, but how about I just keep what is mine and God & Caesar can go F8*k themselves!

And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.—Luke 20:25

With those words, civil government was rendered distinct from Christian theology. End of argument.

Hey all you Infidels,

If you know what’s good for you, stock up on tightie whities (sp??) in preparation for the coming worldwide umma.
This is your last warning!

Courtesy Jihad Watch:

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1520.htm:

fred5678 on August 19, 2007 at 12:42 AM

That video is hilarious. A guy and a culture that wipes with their frickin hand telling us, the culture that;

Invented Plumbing,
Sewer Treatment,
Flush toilet,
Pasteurization,
Ultraviolet light bulbs,
The autoclave,
Antibiotics,
Anti-septics,
Disposable diaper,
The bidet,
Baby wipes,
Feminine thingies,
And toilet paper that we are unclean. For the love of Pete.! Is the guy insane?

What has the culture of Islam given us?
Backwardness, despair, stoning, honor killings, suicide bombers, road side bombs.

Gimme a break.

Can’t we come up with a solution knowing this one tidbit of information? I know I can.

billy on August 19, 2007 at 1:21 AM

Probably for about the same reason that Sick Vick is “singled out” as a dog killer.

It’s been done (better) here before; at least try to be logical with your *witty* ripostes.

Try to think of individuals who were more antithetical to each other than the founding fathers of the United States of America and the founding father of Islam.