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March 14, 2006

Standing up to Kelo; Surrendering to Jihad

Contrary to the claims of Muslem rioters and apologists throughout the world, there is no "right" not to be offended. There is no "right" to forbid someone to say something. There is no "right" to murder someone or threaten to do so over something he or she has said or published. So why haven't we and our media taken the Muslim threat against our freedom just as seriously as we and the press took the governments threat against our homes in Kelo?

Gus Van Horn, writing at Capitalist Magazine, addresses this issue by asking if we are willing to take the Moslem jihad against our rights as seriously as we took the government's threat against our homes, and reminds us that the Moslems are no less serious than government bureaucrats, and they want to take much more from us than just the roofs over our heads. Our government wanted only our homes. The Islamists want our freedom:

Suppose I knew that one man was a magistrate and another was a terrorist, but I had to pick out the terrorist on sight. If I chose the man in the powdered wig over the man in the kefiyah, you would think me daft. And yet our news media have been making a mistake of the same order in their coverage of two very different stories over the past few months. In doing so, they have completely missed an important relationship between the stories that affects us all.

The two stories are the reaction of the American people to a hugely unpopular Supreme Court decision, and the reaction of Moslems across the world to a hugely unpopular set of cartoons portraying their prophet, Mohammed. Our media often frame the stories as if we have people from two very different cultures fighting for their rights -- but do we?

Now read the facts...

Posted by Richard at March 14, 2006 9:20 AM

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