http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/24978.html Jihadist Feet Washing Just the Beginning
White guilt is a simple concept whose time has come and gone. Typically felt by people on the left who are of European decent - they feel guilty about things that their ancestors did (or did not) do to blacks or Indians. That guilt has pretty much been tapped since times are good for the vast majority of blacks and Indians so the left had to find a way to feel bad about a group of people. This time they found a doozy. Who better to feel guilty for than for a group of people that produced 19 men capable of killing 3,000 people and bringing down American landmarks? Once again they can overcompensate for alleged wrongs - this time for Muslims. It doesn't matter if people are Muslim by birth, choice or force because they were held captive by a government or a machine gun or knife toting masked man on a video tape. The left and by definition bureaucrats all over American can now feel guilty and overcompensate for Muslim guilt in ways that no other group would ever dreamed. Overcompensation for white guilt was pretty drab and easy: redistribute wealth, allow unqualified people to be promoted based on race and allow affirmative action programs in everything from college selection to government contracts. It is so much better with Islam because now there is stuff they can do that they never could under white guilt. Muslims have the benefit of forcing the left to throw out many of their previously held beliefs. It is especially true with the supposed wall of separation between church and state that liberals trot out every time Christmas rolls around or when Jews defend themselves against Arabs in Israel. It seems that because some Muslims feel bad that they are looked at suspiciously when they're praying at airports and collecting items before a flight that could be used as weapons that Americans should feel enormous guilt for them. Add to that fact that a few were mistakenly rounded up after 3,000 people were killed by Muslims who practiced their faith on airplanes on September 11, 2001 and all bets are off when it comes to that previously adored separation. Recently public schools and airports (forgive the irony) decided to install feet washing devices so that Muslims in airports, cab drivers who service them and Muslims at public colleges can wash their feet before they pray. The left is embracing the idea and there has been no outcry about spending public money on what is clearly a private religious ritual, but you can't blame people on the right for being confused about public money being spent to give one faith facilities that no other groups are being given. I suppose if the September 11th hijackers were Jewish the ACLU and groups of terrorists from CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) would jump to the front of the line to install Mikvahs in public buildings across the country - oh wait - they would do no such thing because these same groups become apoplectic at the site of a Menorah or Nativity Scene at Chanukah or Christmas. So what is it about Islam that allows the left to ignore the fact that the government sponsoring Islamic rituals is far more offensive to the First Amendment's Establishment Clause than a little town putting up a Christmas tree? Muslim-guilt. It was bound to happen because every mention of the word Muslim or Islam that comes from a politician or bureaucrat is followed or prefaced by the obligatory phraseology about Islam being a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Islamic people want to live in peace with the west. Of course there is no data to support this and the fact that the United States has a favorability rating of about 8% in the Muslim world the math proves the premise wrong. And who can forget the number of people in the Arab world who are willing to stand in line to chop the head off a Jew or blow up a bus - taught to them at the tender age of six courtesy of Arab government television and the use of a badly dressed knock off of Mickey Mouse (Palestinian television is paid for using the money supplied by Western governments and the United States). Minnesota has allowed publicly funded colleges to add the same foot washing devices that are being used in Kansas City for cab drivers to pray at the airport. It begs the question about how the ACLU, the left, the separation of church and state lunatics and Muslim groups would react if Jewish Mikvahs or fonts of holy water blessed by the Pope were installed instead of or before the Muslim feet washing equipment. It is probably not a stretch to say that the reaction would not have been friendly. The ACLU fought for decades for a cross to be removed from a war memorial on public land in San Diego and for crosses to be taken off of county seals in Los Angeles. CAIR gets bent out of shape every time a Muslim is portrayed on television as a terrorist - what happened to doing anything in the name of art - forget that most terrorists today are Arab. Americans need not feel Muslim guilt any more than they felt white guilt over the decades, but the left loves guilt and victimization. The government should not pay for Muslims to wash their feet nor should it pay to have children baptized or for a Jewish couple to hold a bris for their son. Editorial pages around the country have written about the fact that there is no harm in having feet washing stations for Muslims, but these are the same slippery slope loving folks who think a cross on a county seal is the beginning of a Christian rebellion. The whole dynamic would change if it were Christians getting special treatment or if Jews were getting special places set aside in public spaces. Now that the door has been opened to government sponsorship of Islam I would like to have a Mikvah installed at any airport I may be at and demand my Catholic friends get a font of holy water blessed by the Pope. There is a real slippery slope here and it begins with tax dollars going to a group of people who share an ideology with people who want to have the flag of Islam flying over the White House. It is bad enough that it is flying over airports and a few public colleges - where else do you want it? Elevating Islam because so many politicians are afraid of it above every other religion and using tax dollars to subsidize the practice of it is just as wrong and unconstitutional as taking away my gun. The only difference is that while we overcompensated for white guilt over the years the worst thing to happen was bad government programs. Overcompensating with Islam and having it practiced in airports and college campuses at public expense gives the Jihadist exactly what they want - America as an Islamic state. That - to be sure - is something to fear; much more than a Nativity Scene or Menorah at Christmas or Chanukah. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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