How, I ask are muslims being demonized? By pointing out the truth that the “harsh local culture” is in total accordance with mainstream islam? By saying another truth, that islamic scripture commands that islamic religion and law be spread wherever possible, by any and all means necessary? By stating the historical truth that, save few exceptions, islam has always been spread by the sword?

Islamic conquests of Christians since 1529: Lebanon, Balkans, part of Cyprus, part of the Phillipines. Not that it is relevant to the discussion because actions by individual muslims or even muslim societies do not constitute islam. Islam is what it’s sacred texts say and how they are intepreted by acknowledged islamic scholars. And it is, more or less, what I wrote above.

I’ve been a life-long supporter of Israel and her right to defend herself. I am no fan of the Mullah’s and think that the local culture in much of the Islamic world is harsh by modern Western standards. That said, it is clear beyond question that there is a deliberate and orchestrated campaign to demonize 1.3 billion Muslims.

There is a valid analogy to be made with Hitler, as one poster on this blog did, but he has it exactly backwards. The only difference between Hitler’s hate campaign against the Jews and the current campaign against all of Islam is the choice of religious targets. It won’t surprise me if the next sound we hear is herding American Muslims into “detention centers” as Japanese Americans were in World War II. It is especially unacceptable that many of the loudest voices in this campaign are descendants of Holocaust survivors. They, of all people, should know better.

List for me, please, all of the Christian countries that have been occupied by Islamic nations since 1529? How is it that until that fateful morning of 09-11-2001 it occurred to virtually no one that the West was threatened by Islam?

It reminds me of some TV Commercial by Lockheed with a 4th of July parade celebrating “our liberties” – and I made the ironic comment that burning a flag celebrates our liberties. The commies and Nazis were far superior than us when it came to parades and flag worship.

In any case, we’ve seen 2+ bad wars in a silly reaction to agression. We cannot fight something (violent Islam)by losing our principles.

Good that Geller had her own cameras there yesterday.

It isn’t as if Islam does not do terrible things (ask the forcibly exiled Christians of Iraq or the children of Sderot) but Moslems buying a Burlington Coat Factory down the street from a strip joint and 2 blocks from Rockefeller Eminent-Domain abuse does not top my personal list of Islamic offenses. It probably doesn’t make the top 100! The libertarian in me would prefer a world where all the sensitive busybodies would attend to the log in their own eye rather than focusing on dust in their neighbors (Matthew 7-3).

As far as insensitive Islamic community center builders, Pamela Geller, and Koran burners go, the Orthodox Libertarian in me says: Blessed are the insensitive, Praiseworthy are the vulgar, and Exalted are the obnoxious – for they dine at the Table of Liberty.

Further in Ms. Geller’s article, she mentions that ‘Geraldo At Large’ did a hatchet job on her. The Judge calls Beck and Geraldo ‘great libertarians’ I think Fox has totally turned.

[Fox has never been much good. Research this site for its documenting of Fox, from war to welfare.]