Posted by
Right Viewpoint on Monday, January 29, 2007 4:18:31 AM
The prevailing feeling among Muslims is that
they are being abused by the West. What should we do about it? We might
as well surrender. After all, we're already on our way.
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The West has values worth defending. Doesn't it? |
The issue today no longer revolves around a group of Berlin
pupils with an "immigration background," but around 1.3 billion Muslims
worldwide -- many of whom are thin-skinned and unpredictable. At issue
is freedom of opinion, one of the central tenets of the Enlightenment
and democracy.
And whether respect, consideration and tolerance are the
right approach to dealing with cultures that, for their part, behave
without respect, consideration or tolerance when it comes to anything
they view as decadent, provocative and unworthy -- from women in short
skirts to cartoons they deem provocative without even having seen them
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In 1972, more than three decades ago, Danish lawyer and part-time politician
Mogens Glistrup had an idea that brought him instant fame.
To save taxes, he
proposed that the Danish army be disbanded and an answering machine be set up in
the defense ministry that would play the following message: "
We capitulate!"
Not
only would it save money, Glistrup argued, but it would also save lives in an
emergency.
On the strength of this "program," Glistrup's Progress Party managed
to become the
second-most powerful political party in the Danish parliament in
the 1973 elections.
Glistrup had the right idea, but he was a number of years premature. Now
would be the right time to set up his answering machine.
Have we capitulated? ... [see an answer below]
By Henryk M. Broder. © SPIEGEL ONLINE 2007
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,grossbild-786463-462149,00.html
The number of Germans who have converted to Islam has increased
fourfold within one year ...
By Lutz Ackermann © SPIEGEL ONLINE 2007 January 18, 2007
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,460364,00.html
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Iran Says It's Installing Nuclear Centrifuges
After
barring 38 inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog group
Iran moves forward with its nuclear programming. Iran announced today
it installing 3,000 centrifuges, demonstrating it will continue to
develop its nuclear program despite U.N. sanctions. The installation
under way at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant ...
Enriched uranium is used to fuel nuclear reactors and to make
nuclear weapons.atomic
weapon... Many countries, including the United States, believe
that Iran is using its nuclear program as a cover to produce an
Iranian
officials had said in recent weeks that the country was moving toward
large-scale enrichment involving 3,000 centrifuges, which spin uranium
gas into enriched material.
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Pat Buchanan replays shortly:
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Needed
today are courageous men and women of both parties who will introduce
and pass a congressional resolution stating, "In the absence of a
direct Iranian attack on U.S. forces or personnel, or an imminent
threat of such an attack, President Bush has no authority to launch a
pre-emptive strike or a preventive war on Iran."
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Why should they be especially "courageous men and women ..."?
Because Pat Buchanan usually referred to Capitol Hill as an "Israeli-occupied territory" (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 10/20/9
Pat Buchanan says that Adolf Hitler only sought to dominate Europe,
making him "no physical threat to the US" ...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan)
Mr. Buchanan called for closing the U.S. Justice Department's Office
of Special Investigations, which prosecuted Nazi war criminals ...
(New York Times, 4/21/87)
Pat Buchanan was vehement in pushing President Reagan -- despite protests
-- to visit Germany's Bitburg cemetery, where Nazi SS troops were buried...
Buchanan was credited with crafting Ronald Reagan's line that the SS troops
buried at Bitburg were "victims just as surely as the victims in the concentration
camps." (New York Times, 5/16/85; New Republic, 1/22/96)
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The people like Pat Buchanan are always at the Evil/Nazi/Islamist side of any war.
They were at the Nazi side of the WW2 and now exactly the same ideology
"courageous men and women of both parties" are at the Islamofascists side of
the next Clash of Civilizations.
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See also: Who are you, Mr. Buchanan?