This gets us back into the endless debate over the “tiny minority”

There are just over one billion Moslems in the world.
That’s 1,000,000,000.

If only one half of one percent of them wanted to destroy the West, that would in absolute terms be five million people calling for our blood.

And plenty of their friends standing on the sidelines gawking.

“Bijenkorf rondes, batterijbrand!”

Frozen Tex on January 24, 2008 at 2:14 PM

Oh, yummy food…

The film Robert Spencer was in is more informative about Islam.

mram on January 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM

Spencer is (if the trailer is accurate) in Wilder’s film.

More like,

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 24, 2008 at 1:52 PM

ready… aim… FIRE!

http://aztlan.net/arafat2.jpg

That’s La Raza Unida and Arafat, blood brothers.

The Dutch foreign minister tried to shrug that off by telling an international conference recently, “[F]reedom of expression doesn’t mean the right to offend.”

Why does it never occur to these Stalinists that freely expressed statements like that are immeasurably offensive?

RushBaby on January 24,2008 at 1:30PM.

RushBaby:Nicely said,good post. :)

In the letter, the organization contended that it’s better to “censor the movie in a democracy like the Netherlands, where the freedom of religion is a constitutional right” because the only aim of the film is to make Islam and the Koran look as bad as possible.

I guess they didn’t get the memo, no one needs a bloody film to make Islam and the koran look bad.

Roll the film.

Vote Sauron 08 on January 24, 2008 at 2:12 PM

Well said.

culturism on January 24, 2008 at 3:55 PM

Amen

This gets us back into the endless debate over the “tiny minority” and whether it’s fair to blame all of Islam for the hysterical elements.”

Whether it is tiny or huge is immaterial. The correct term for this silent majority of “moderate and peace loving” Muslims is: collateral damage.

“This gets us back into the endless debate over the “tiny minority” and whether it’s fair to blame all of Islam for the hysterical elements.”

Innonomatus is right about the silent majority. Beyond this, we learned on 9/11 and they learned with Van Gogh, that it only takes a tiny minority to intimidate the country. Would you make a cartoon or film against Islam now? Many wouldn’t.

The West has an absolute right, as do China and Saudi Arabia and every other country, to stop immigration. We have a duty to protect our Western values such as separation of church and state as well as free speech. We have a right and duty to ask, what is the benefit of letting in 700 more muslims, and what is the risk? If 2 of 700 turn out to be terrorists, it is not worth the risk. We have a right to refuse all. That is not racist, it is culturist. Western nations cultural and political soveriegnty supercedes any U.N.style version of “human rights.” We needn’t be the only nations without sovereignty.

Besides, “the youth will riot” over a movie does not sound like a tiny minority. Not tiny enough.

http://www.culturism.us

Geronimo on January 24, 2008 at 3:05 PM

Thanks for the clarification. :)

Does anyone out there even doubt that this would have been a COMPLETE non-story had the roles been reversed. Yeah, I thought so.

This dude is my hero. He has more nerve in his pinky than GWB has in his whole administration.

RushBaby on January 24, 2008 at 2:43 PM

Meaning moderate Muslims will not speak out against the extremists for fear of being seen as apostates at least in the eyes of radicals who are hijacking their religion.
Which to me doesn’t make any sense because if moderates truly looked at radicals as highjacking their religion as an outcast sect of Islam, they should speak out against it.
Of course, Islam makes no sense to me as far as the believers blind faith and submission.
I look at Islam more as an infection until I can differentiate between moderates and radicals.

That’s enough for me. Guilt by association.

Geronimo on January 24, 2008 at 2:37 PM

What do you mean?