This e-mail and any attachment is for authorized use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party without permission. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Please notify me directly and immediately by reply if you received this message in error. Thank you. http://www.usawakeu <http://www.usawakeup.org/> p.org/ http://www.opinione <http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/dsernoffsky_20061207.htm l> ditorials.com/guestcontributors/dsernoffsky_20061207.html December 07, 2006 Tolerance is not a virtue Dan Sernoffsky A couple of weeks ago, an incident at a Minneapolis airport drew considerable attention. It seems that six imams were removed from a U.S. Airways flight bound for Phoenix. When the news was first reported, there were the immediate outcries about discrimination and racial profiling and all the other popular politically correct buzz words aimed at castigating the intolerance of some Americans. But when some of the details concerning the removal began to surface, the story began to lose some traction. The imams, it seems, were behaving suspiciously. Among other things, once they boarded the plane, they didn't go to their assigned seats. Instead, they spread themselves throughout the plane in a manner in which they would be in a position to cover all potential exits. They asked for seatbelt extensions they did not need. Three had one-way tickets and no checked baggage. Still, although the immediate furor died down quickly, that didn't stop the imams and their sympatizers from staging a "pray-in" in Washington, nor from seeking out their sympatizers in Congress in an effort to promote legislation aimed at ending, once and for all, any attempts to stop other Muslims who might be deemed a threat to a flight any time in the future. Somehow, it wasn't surprising to learn that the six imams had been among those attending a conference for Keith Ellison, a newly elected representative from Minnesota who will shortly become the first Muslim member of Congress. Nor is it surprising to learn that Ellison, a Democrat, has announced his stated intention of taking his ceremonial oath of office with the Koran rather than the Bible. Interestingly, when the news of Ellison's decision was made public, a nationally-known conservative columnist and talk show host named Dennis Prager raised an objection. Which has since resulted in further outcries of racism and intolerance. In addition to his writing and his rad io show, Prager, who is Jewish, also serves as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. When he made his views about Ellison public, CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, immediately issued its latest version of an Islamofascist fatwah. CAIR has demanded that Prager be removed from the Holocaust Council because of his "bigoted, intolerant and divisive views." Were it not so tragic, it would almost be laughable to watch organizations like CAIR lecture Americans on tolerance, and to watch their useful idiots on the American left applaud those lectures, especially in light of what CAIR represents. Until and unless CAIR and other Muslim groups can stand up and universally condemn, and take action against, the Islamofascism bent on world domination, they cannot be considered anything more than a better dressed arm of al-Qaida. Consider, after all, what happened in the Israeli city of Acco last week. Islamic marauders broke into a Talmud Torah - a Hebre w school - and vandalized it, painting Arabic graffiti proclaiming "Hamas" and "Allah Akbar" and swastikas on the wall, destroying books and furniture, and stealing equipment. And consider the "letter" sent to the "people" of the United States by Iran's Mahmoud Ahmedinejad suggesting, among other things, that the U.S. abandon Israel. Of course, Ahmedinejad has regularly denied the Holocaust and called for the eradication of Israel while appearing bent on using him soon-to-be-developed nuclear weapons on Israel. It was less than a century ago, and still within the memory of many who are still alive, that a similar movement was growing in Europe, a movement bent on world domination. Political correctness wasn't in vogue then, but there was a willingness to follow those precepts, to tolerate what seemed only to be an effort to create an orderly society, an effort that was long on promises of peace. Those promises led to a negotiations by an honorable man who thought he was dealing with another honorable man. That Neville Chamberlain was an honorable man is a fact that now seems lost to history, and his reputation has been forever tainted by his efforts at appeasement. Those efforts with a less-than-honorable man, Adolph Hitler, turned out to be meaningless, and the world was eventually plunged into an horrific war that gave rise to the very word Holocaust. There are honorable men still, but the politically correct, the Islamofascist front groups operating in the United States and the American left shun them in their efforts to bestow upon the modern day Hitlers - the Ahmedinejads and the Bashar Assads - the mantle of distinguished leader. In reality, they are simply the latest incarnation of Hitler, and it may be only after another horrific war that the reality will finally be recognized. Unless there is a willingness to reject the Islamofascist demands for "tolerance," the reality of that war may be closer than anyone anticipate s. ### Dan Sernoffsky is an award-winning sportswriter and political columnist for The Lebanon Daily News in Lebanon, Pa. A career journalist, he is a graduate of Ottawa University, Ottawa, Ks., and attended graduate school at Central Michigan University. The father of four grown children, he and his wife reside in Lebanon. dsernoffsky@ <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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