Again, What Part of ‘Infidel’ Don’t You Understand?

American terrorist Jihad Jane

May we now dispense with this nonsense that American anger with Islam is racial intolerance? With the arrest of Jihad Jane in Pennsylvania it should be clear that the difference between a friendly Muslim and a Jihadist is the AK-47 hanging off their shoulder and no more.

Political correctness has moved through the liberal media and academia like a plague over the past 10 years, and, most recently, especially concerning Islam. If it persists Americans will die en mass.

Those of you who read LCL regularly, know of my respect for Washington Post op-ed columnist Charles Krauthammer, but it seems even Charles has caught the bug.

Charles recently gave us his two cents on the difference between Islamics and Islamists in a roundtable on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier. The conventional wisdom, it seems, among the media elite is that a wide, sweeping ideological chasm exists between the two.

The panel discussion concerned Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ blasphemy trial in the Netherlands. Blasphemy trial?

Okay, it is time to issue my usual PC disclaimer. One can never be too careful when Rahm Emanuel might be reading. Most Muslims are, I’m sure, law-abiding citizens. Yadda yadda yadda. To the Left that has all of the impact of sending Joe Biden to Israel to shore up US-Israeli relations, anyway.

For all I know Wilders may be a fascist. I don’t trust anyone with anything close to a Germanic accent who might foam at the mouth when they’re excited. But one thing is certain: this guy is under sentence of death, not by extremist Muslims, but all of Islam.

Acceding to the fact that most of Charles Krauthammer’s 1 trillion brain cells are functioning most of the time, and that I am an eight-cylinder thinker who is at best firing on six on any given day, Charles can still be wrong. And he is.

In a land where religious freedom is woven into the very fabric of our tradition, it is understandable that Americans will give Muslims the benefit of the doubt. But Muslims regard the very insinuation that Mohammed was anything other than the anointed prophet of their god as a sin punishable by death. Wilder has accused the prophet of being a pedophile and a warlord.

Let’s be certain here that Wilders’ accusations against Mohammed are not idle talk. Wilders will eventually die for his ‘crimes against Islam,’ just as did Theo Van Gogh in 2004. The Netherlands has been all but overtaken by Islamics.

And right now he is being condemned as a liar and fear monger for remarks that are historical fact; Wilders’ charges are true. His call for the banning the Koran is extreme, and I do disagreed with it, but Holland has fallen on serious times with Islamics.

Let’s view a couple of excerpts of Muslim reactions to Wilders’ showing his film in the House of Lords in London this week. Mind you, these are not Dr. Krauthammer’s so-called Islamists; these are everyday English working stiffs, many are British citizens.

“Islam will conquer the west … it will enter the house of every unbeliever … Islam will dominate.”

And, finally, a word from Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a founding member of Hamas and former Muslim and Israeli spy.

Yousef is on record here as saying that Jihad is the highest form of Islam. That there is no ‘moderate’ Islam.

How much more evidence do we need?

PC THIS!

UN Arms Inspector Scott Ritter Busted In Kiddie-Porn Sting!

A few days ago I found myself coming to the defense of Michael Steele who was dubious about GOP chances to regain control of congress. Now Harry Reid? This is ridiculous. Yes, there’s a double standard in Washington, and no there shouldn’t be. But you know what gripes me most? PC Think.

The idea that anyone can tell me what’s appropriate to say or do puts a tight torque on my jaw. What the heck is wrong with using the word “Negro” in a conversation? Recently, in a post, I made the statement that Michelle Obama was Barack’s tutor in Negro 101. I said it for the shock value. No one honestly believes that a guy who was raised white, by whites, is passing the soul test in South Central Los Angeles. It was a tongue-in-cheek remark and I will not apologize for it.

The word “Negro” was adopted from Spanish and Portuguese and first recorded from the mid 16th century, and it comes from the Latin word meaning “black.” It’s a perfectly appropriate, albeit archaic, word and there is not a racist thing about it.

This is absolute nonsense and what burns me most is that these ideas are being assimilated in the conservative culture because some news anchor or left-brain academic tells us we’re inappropriate. I don’t give a rip what the NAACP or the Black Panthers or anyone else thinks; I will not let them tell me how to speak. I draw the line at racial epithets, but “Negro” certainly isn’t one.

Harry Reid wasn’t being humorous when he made his statement, but if he had been I would have laughed. If he’d use that other “N-word” I’d be as outraged as anyone, but I’m not about to beat up on the guy for using a perfectly good word. The thought Nazis have been destroying our vocabulary and our very sense of humor for 40 years, and it’s time we stop giving them the power to do it.

I reject any standard that allows a certain group to use a word with impunity, yet calls me a racist for doing the same. Anyone who has ever been to a 7-Eleven store after eleven o’clock at night knows what I’m talking about here. The same goes for gays – and that was my word first, by the way – Gays don’t get to call themselves fags and queers around me unless they expect me to use the same words.

Everything we do these days, it seems, has to go through a PC panel before we can know what is or is not acceptable, and I’m not buying it. I am not going to justify myself to anyone at the expense of free speech. This kind of thinking is hypocritical and borders on fascism. People’s lives are being destroyed for what they think! Just one foot over our border, in Canada, a minister can be arrested for preaching against homosexuality, and it’s coming here if we don’t tell these guys to put their PC crap where the sun don’t shine.

Goodnight from the Left Coast.