Tom : I have tried to find a simple answer to your question but can't come up with anything like a magic bullet.But there are several parts to an answer which you can add up and it makes perfect sense. State Department --wants peaceful relations, therefore a policy of appeasement is desired so that Muslims states don't go berserk all the time Leftist ideology in which the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Left hates Christians and, in recent years, has become increasingly anti-Semitic. Muslims are often anti-Christian and very anti-Semitic, works out splendidly. Stupidity --ignorance of even the basics of Islam and politicos can pretend that Islam is similar to church on the corner Christianity and should be tolerated based on Enlightenment principles. There is also the role played by Left-wing religious groups, or similar groups who may not have Leftist views generally but have congruent views about Islam, like Theosophy and the Baha'i Faith. Call it the Unitarianization of Christianity. All are one under the skin, kumbaya, we all are brothers, etc, even when we're not. Ecumenist ideology, not ecumenical ideology, a different animal. Ecumenist ideology says that in the future all religions will blend and converge and we will live in peace and harmony, etc, and in the meantime, CRUSH anyone who dissents from this new orthodoxy. Oil --billions and billions are at stake. With Bush you had an "oil president" who was cozy with the Saudis and very protective of their interests. The wild card in this, is why the media goes along with such nonsense. Yes, the media is politically Left, but it is their journalists who get killed or, like the CBS woman reporter, Lara Logan, sexually abused by Muslim mobs. In many ways it is senseless for the TV networks, the NY Times, etc, to buy into this crap, yet they do. The unattractiveness of elements of the Right. There is a Neanderthal Right, and no-one among the high mucky-muck class wants anything to do with it. So, they disregard some of their best interests to oppose the farther Right. Think this about covers it, for Americans. For Europeans, I am not so sure. There seems to be more at work for them, but maybe you have some insights that are unknown to me.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billy: I can completely understand your skepticism. Had I not seen these things with my own eyes and heard the conversations that, for some reason, the MSM in the western world, wants to, for some ungodly reason, keep below the radar, I would believe exactly as you do. >From all indications it appears to me that a backlash from Europeans is gaining momentum. One can only hope that this comes to fruition sooner than later and puts the breaks on the extremist Islamic movements that have invaded Christendom. It would appear that their sole purpose is to destroy the Christian faith. I also cannot, for the life of me, see who the elitists can possibly consider Islam as an ally since a great part of the elitist life style can be considered haram to Muslim extremists. To ally one's self to these people is to put your head in the tiger's mouth IMO. but again that is another discussion I suppose Tom -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
