Arabs in America
It’s bad enough the right wing expects people to blindly hate and fear Muslims, but they even expect us to be bad at math. Here is the Introduction to, “Ameriabia”. The second article I’ve read in a week discussing why we should be afraid of law abiding Muslims.
Even Americans knowledgeable about Europe’s growing accommodation to the totalitarian ideology known alternatively as Islamism, jihadism or Islamofascism tend smugly to believe the same thing can’t happen here. Think again.
As stupid as the efforts to convince us Europe is being taken over by Muslims are, there are in fact substantial number of Muslims in Europe. By contrast Muslims are a really small minority group in America. In fact they’re not even the majority of recent immigrants. I mean it’s one thing to take the Samuel Huntington route and get all bent out of shape about Mexican immigration into America. There in fact tons of Mexicans and a handful of national politicians of Mexican decent. I mean they had the 4th most viable Democratic Presidential candidate!
Of course I doubt the authors of this piece really expect liberals, moderates, and even conservatives with half a brain cell or no pre-existing bias against Muslims to believe there is some sort threat to America from Muslim culture. Rather this article is aimed at convincing the masses of anti-Muslim bigots to actively join the crusade against a small handful of Muslim-American organizations, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who have committed such offenses as conducting sensitivity training for the FBI. Surely the FBI has no ability to investigate if an organization like CAIR has terrorist ties or not, and needs a Washington Times columnist to clear things up for them.
What if I’m wrong and law abiding Muslims, despite their small numbers and the whole law abiding thing, are really a threat to me and my beloved country? I’m not really worried because we’ll still be able to hire cheap Mexican day laborers to aid us in the struggle.
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Tags: Arabs in America, CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islam, Muslims, Muslims in America
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to be fair, this guy seems to be making the point that “totalitarian ideologies,” even in small doses, can have a tricky co-existence with secular liberal societies, not (as you seem to claim) that we are being overrun by hordes of crusading muslims.on that point, there is some evidence in his favor (see Denmark, Holland and Germany).
“To be clear, this is not the agenda of all Muslims, certainly not all American Muslims. Yet, we cannot safely ignore the fact that Muslim Brotherhood followers are among those who do have such a goal”
Thanks for making me defend the Washington Times, I think I need to go shower now.
On the point that the guy isn’t broadly claiming we’re being overrun by Muslims. His chooses the title, “Ameriabia”, which implies a broad change in society and the nature of the country. He then backs down and starts with the, “not all muslims are evil, but surely some of them are …” backtracking. This is more or less how all bigotry proceeds in contemporary society.
As for Denmark, Holland, and Germany (might as well add France) it’s fair to say that Muslims immigration has provided a tricky co-existence for these secular liberal countries. I don’t think this was the point the Washtimes author was making, he was suggesting we target particular Muslim organizations, because they’ve done things like succeeded in convincing the FBI and homeland security to be “sensitive” to Muslims feelings and gotten them use not use phrases that identify terrorism with Islam. These are exactly the type of things we need to be doing more if we want to not end up like the European countries above, and he’s using these actions as a pretext for acting Muslims.