A Very Special Weekly Jackass
With the global media focusing, for the most part, on the fact that a U.S. soldier kicked a Quran (Koran? Who knows, anymore?), it’s easy to miss the fact that it was Muslim detainees who attempted to flush their own Quran/Koran. That’s it for me…I’ve been chillin’ lately, talking about overblown outrage, and generally sounding like a moderate.
What’s missing here, though, is the outrage. We were assured, as ugly Americans, that the Muslim Holy Book was different…you had to wear eight pairs of gloves, a decontamination suit, and a tuxedo just to touch it, if I remember correctly. And when it looked like an infidel, an American infidel, no less – wait, check that- an American military infidel – had flushed one of these babies down the crapper, thanks to a poorly sourced story from good ol’ Newsweek, there were riots. People were killed – it was a major atrocity! Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were never as evil as the U.S.! Well, I guess it’s true – the Muslim Holy Book REALLY IS different.
Except it isn’t. Because if it were really true, all that politically correct, culturally understanding crap that got forced down our throats, why, surely the fact that a MUSLIM desecrated his own Holy Book would bring out thousands in the streets, demanding his head. How outrageous! A Muslim – trying to flush the Holy Book!…but there’s silence. Oh, that’s not true, either…no, there’s plenty of noise – about somebody kicking a book.
At Al-Jazeera: Pentagon confirms Quran desecretion is the headline…NOT ONE DAMN WORD about detainees flushing it…
The NY Times: Might as well be the Al-Jazeera story…again, nothing at all about detainees and desecration..
Meanwhile, the lunatics at the Daily Kos have broken out the champagne, not because it was detainees and not troops doing the flushing, but again, because somebody kicked a book (anti-American Left? Naaaahhh….)…
So we have a group prize this week. The Jackass belongs to:
- everyone who lectures U.S. troops on lack of respect for the Muslim faith while attacking the right of American Christians to have a political voice;
- every hyena at the Daily Kos that thinks that reports that reflect badly on our military are a cause for celebration;
- but mostly, every damn theocratic Islamic fanatic that’s ever harmed a hair on the head of an innocent American, Iraqi, man, woman, or child, with your vile hypocrisy and evil butchery.
Disgust is far too mild a word for what I’m feeling right now (and, by the way, thanks to CNN for at least putting the detainee flushing in the proper light). Sometimes outrage has its proper place…
Chillin’ on judicial nominees doesn’t mean rightous outrage towards the MSM for FALSIFYING their reporting.
This time the MSM will pay across the board for their propoganda. They have yet to understand the internet will out the complete story and catch them in their cover up of terrorists in an attempt to bring down our elected government.
But this is one more step in a long trail of MSM and liberalims imploding themselves fighting us fighting the War on Terror.
Check out this post for why this really should not be a surprise move
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2005/06/how-left-lost-war-on-terrorism.html
In perspective this makes sense, as the liberal MSM tries to gear up for the 2006 elections.
Jeff, that’s the true irony, that we take so much flak over a situation that we have gone very far out of our way to be ‘politically correct’ about.
More evidence that the media has already decided which side of the war they’re on… and it’s not America’s.
We need to get past our fear of what it means for the media to be actively seeking the destruction of the US government, and start thinking about what needs to be done to prevent them from succeeding.
Shooting down McCain-Feingold would be a start.
Regarding the Gitmo prisoners’ copies of the Koran: As Krauthammer has asked on several different occasions, “Why do they even have Korans in the first place?”
Thank you for your outrage, Mark. I have been feeling it, too, mainly towards the MSM. But you expressed it far more eloquently than I ever could.
Well, I doubt that, but it’s nice of you to say so…enjoy your weekend!
What’s odd about this excerpt?
“The report mentions a teacher who keeps a copy of the Koran on her desk for reference when controversial historical issues arise.
[SNIP]
“Obin’s investigative team found that most female Muslim students were too frightened to tell them what their punishments would be if they disobeyed these unwritten rules.
Interestingly enough, the investigators found that the schools most effective in dealing with the problem of Islamization were the ones that completely refused to tolerate it. Because of this finding, the Obin report recommends a policy of “no compromise with Islamist demands.“
WebSource:
http://antiprotester.blogspot.com/2005/05/french-school-system-in-peril.html
What’s odd is no cries of desecration over an infidel French teacher keeping and handling a copy of the koran in her infidel desk. Juxtapose that with the French conclusion that a zero-tolerance of intimidation leads to a safer school environment for students of all races and religions.
We can still learn something from those puffing-and-puffing-until-they-blow-up frogs.
I understand the hypocrisy that’s being highlighted in this post and you have a point. However, in regards to one of the posted responses, I don’t see how allowing prisoners access to their holy book and religion is going “far out of our way to be ‘politically correct’”….I’m not religious, but I do have respect for people’s faith and beliefs and I’d like the same access to be granted to any prisoner anywhere, regardless of what their religion is. Doing so is not going “far out of our way to be ‘politically correct’”…rather, it is upholding one of the basic tenets the US was founded on.