Shadows of Bin Laden
Read some of these quotes and then tell me...let's just say the cultural demographic of the persons who uttered them:
Okay, I'll admit it's difficult to disguise the bigoted Christophobic rantings of ignorant pseudo-intellectualoids, especially when they themselves go so far out of their way to flaunt them. And there were some other quotes from the Klinghoffer piece that were just at the level of ridicule as opposed to overt malevolence. But the above three examples struck me by their similarity to what Muslim fundamentalists say about Jews and Christians - or, in Koranese, "the people of the Book." Things like the blood libel of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and referring to their co-religionists as "pigs" and "monkeys" in need of extermination. Putting Christians in cages, eradicating Christian culture (and, by inevitable extension, Western civilization along with it), and contemplating the fantasy of taking the Wayback Machine to Ur of the Chaldeans four millennia ago and committing temporal genocide - which doesn't fall far from contemplating equivalencies in the not-hypothetical present - sounds like something that could blend right in on al-Jazeera without much, if any, editing. No wonder the Christophobic left is so enamored of Islam, to the degree of teaching its tenets in some public schools under the skimpy camouflage of "social studies," and, of course, demanding unilateral retreat from Iraq and the dismantling of the Patriot Act at home.
Klinghoffer ties it off this way:
But really, just the Judeo-Christian religion, because we don't blow stuff up. Or, as I put it last month:
And in this they have a great deal of turbaned company.
UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg cites as another example Time magazine's "People Who Mattered" puff piece on Iranian "president" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - you know, the man who wants, and will shortly have the ability, to hasten the return of the Muslim messiah by "cleansing" Israel and the West with "holy" nuclear fire, a bald declaration of intent that hasn't drawn so much as a yawn from the same Western elites that blow a gasket every time Pat Robertson says something assinine.
If libs ever get their way, they'll probably be the first ones beheaded by the Caliphate, on the eugenical reasoning that people so usefully weak, cowardly, and stupid must not be allowed to live beyond the point where their purpose has been served - and can be turned against the new overlords.
Somehow I doubt they'll be memorialized in al-Jazeera's "Infidels Who Mattered" issue.
In [Tufts University Professor Daniel C. Dennett's] highly regarded Darwin's Dangerous Idea, he tells why it might be necessary to confine conservative Christians in zoos. It's because Bible-believing Baptists, in particular, may tolerate "the deliberate misinforming of children about the natural world....Safety demands that [Christians] be put in cages," explains Dennett, "when absolutely necessary....The message is clear: those who will not accommodate, who will not temper, who insist on keeping only the purest and wildest strains of their heritage alive, we will be obliged, reluctantly, to cage or disarm, and we will do our best to disable the memes they fight for."
In an essay, Is Science a Religion?, Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins is frank enough....[H]e forthrightly states that "[the Christian] faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate." He equates....baptism with child abuse....
There is University of Minnesota biologist P. Z. Myers....[who, i]n a....blog posting....daydreamed about having a time machine that would allow him to go back and eliminate the Biblical patriarch Abraham. Some might argue for using the machine to assassinate other notorious figures of history, but not Myers: "I wouldn't do anything as trivial as using it to take out Hitler."
Okay, I'll admit it's difficult to disguise the bigoted Christophobic rantings of ignorant pseudo-intellectualoids, especially when they themselves go so far out of their way to flaunt them. And there were some other quotes from the Klinghoffer piece that were just at the level of ridicule as opposed to overt malevolence. But the above three examples struck me by their similarity to what Muslim fundamentalists say about Jews and Christians - or, in Koranese, "the people of the Book." Things like the blood libel of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and referring to their co-religionists as "pigs" and "monkeys" in need of extermination. Putting Christians in cages, eradicating Christian culture (and, by inevitable extension, Western civilization along with it), and contemplating the fantasy of taking the Wayback Machine to Ur of the Chaldeans four millennia ago and committing temporal genocide - which doesn't fall far from contemplating equivalencies in the not-hypothetical present - sounds like something that could blend right in on al-Jazeera without much, if any, editing. No wonder the Christophobic left is so enamored of Islam, to the degree of teaching its tenets in some public schools under the skimpy camouflage of "social studies," and, of course, demanding unilateral retreat from Iraq and the dismantling of the Patriot Act at home.
Klinghoffer ties it off this way:
[T]his, I think, is why some Darwin advocates dislike religion. It's why they fight it with such passion: Because negating religion is the reason behind their belief system.
But really, just the Judeo-Christian religion, because we don't blow stuff up. Or, as I put it last month:
What's even worse is that Islam is being dallied with and dabbled in by the same secularist extremists who are scarcely any less rabidly Christophobic than Osama bin Laden and the Iranian mullahgarchy themselves. Indeed, it goes to show that they're really a lot less secularist than they are just overtly anti-Christian.
And in this they have a great deal of turbaned company.
UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg cites as another example Time magazine's "People Who Mattered" puff piece on Iranian "president" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - you know, the man who wants, and will shortly have the ability, to hasten the return of the Muslim messiah by "cleansing" Israel and the West with "holy" nuclear fire, a bald declaration of intent that hasn't drawn so much as a yawn from the same Western elites that blow a gasket every time Pat Robertson says something assinine.
If libs ever get their way, they'll probably be the first ones beheaded by the Caliphate, on the eugenical reasoning that people so usefully weak, cowardly, and stupid must not be allowed to live beyond the point where their purpose has been served - and can be turned against the new overlords.
Somehow I doubt they'll be memorialized in al-Jazeera's "Infidels Who Mattered" issue.
posted by JASmius at 12:49 PM
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