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I know that crowd. I've heard them jeer at all the values that most Americans still care about, laughing at religious people, at the middle class, at suburbanites, at the poor ignorant saps who don't think correct thoughts all the time. You know -- the citizens of Heartland. Those poor sentimental fools who stood in line to see The Passion and who like Adam Sandler movies and who get tears in their eyes when they see the American flag and whose hearts break a little when it burns.
And yet the irony is that the reason the radical Islamists hate the West so much is primarily because of the unchecked and uncheckable excesses of the Smartish. From Hollywood to newspeople to the soft-subject professors in our universities, the culture that makes people like Osama bin Laden want to blow us up or crush us into dust is the culture of the R-rated movie, the anti-religion intellectual, the glorified abortionist, the babies-without-marriage crowd, and the what-me-worry media elite.
Osama isn't much worried about Christianity. Why should he? If a Muslim converts to Christianity in a Muslim country, he'll just be killed. Christianity, despite our apparent numbers, has been reduced to nothing more dangerous to Islam than a swarm of gnats.
It's a lot harder to keep dirty movies and atheistic Western ideas out of Muslim lands. That's the established church of the West these days -- liberty without responsibility, filth praised as "edgy" and virtue despised as "bourgeouis."
If the Islamists ever ruled the world -- and only a fool thinks that history offers some guarantee against it -- then America's unpatriotic elite will realize ...
No they won't. Whom do I think I'm kidding? They'll still blame it on Bush or the Christian right or the oil companies, because the central tenet of their belief is that their side can do no wrong.
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i think he's going crazy. he's allowing the muslims who went apeshit over newsweek completely abrogate self-responsibility of their actions, and then goes further in blaming r-rated western movies as part of the root cause as to why this is happening.
never mind that they're fundamentalists, he'll just find some way to vilify his own personal enemies by applying a larger problem to them.
getting sentimental over under-acheivers simply because it serves as an opposition to his object of hatred is short-sighted and more than a little stupid. since when is lowering the bar for everyone supposed to be intellectually acceptable? people against freedom of speech and who watch adam sandler movies are supposed to be what we aspire to? this is real america now?
what new low standards should we push forward to establish what messages are acceptable and how we should support our government?
i love the ender books, but as a blog writer and someone eager to spout folk psychology about an entire nation and treat it as fact, he's a fucking awful writer