SO IT WASN’T AN ANGRY WHITE TEA PARTY CLONE OF McVEIGH!!! ROGER SIMON
Posted By Roger L Simon
If you were listening to Geraldo on Sunday night (okay, I apologize), you would have thought the would-be Times Square bomber was either the illegitimate son of Timothy McVeigh or an evangelical minister overdosed on steroids looking for an abortion clinic. Geraldo was practically fulminating at the mouth — it’s a white man, it’s a white man — in nostalgia for the good old days when the true enemy was some evil Ku Kluxer waving his hangman’s noose.
Well, it wasn’t. At least the man currently under arrest, Faisal Shahzad [1], a Pakistani-American, is no evangelical Christian and wasn’t seeking vengeance against our federal government. I’m willing to bet right now he is a believer in jihad and, if he’s seeking vengeance against anything, it’s Western Civilization — our way of life.
Yet only months after the Ft. Hood massacre, our government and leaders refuse to name our enemy. In fact, as a recent PJTV video [2] reminds us, they are running the other way. Words like “jihad,†“Islamic fascism,†etc. — the very ideologies cited by the 9/11 Commission as the causes of September 11 — have now been expunged from the lexicon of our government and even our military.
Times Square reminds us how dangerously self-destructive that is. Were it not for our concerned citizenry and smart law enforcement, our civilization would be on its way out. Many of our leaders are evidently ready to hand it over.
Two who are not are Senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins. They deserve our praise and encouragement. They should not stop. That is why in a my PJTV editorial [2] I called for them to expand their government inquiry into the whys and wherefores of this government censorship of Islamic terminology. What people and organizations are instigating this censorship?  And why are they doing it?
How can we begin to defeat this enemy if we are not even willing to name it?
QUICK UPDATE:  An example of the kind of mindset I am talking about when I say our leaders are prepared to hand our civilization to the Islamists is NY’s Mayor Bloomberg:
| Bloomberg told Katie Couric [3] he thinks it could have been a domestic terrorist acting alone: “If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.†|
Article printed from Roger L. Simon: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon
Comments are closed.
