It's not a pleasant job, but somebody has to do it...
I was looking through various right-wing/pro-Bush blogs - the most major ones - and the degree of outright racism, homophobia and utter lack of education is astounding. In effect, these blogs are now almost single-issue - that issue being Islam. There isn't a single story on websites like Free Republic or Little Green Footballs that isn't flooded with comments somehow tied into their perceived global war between Islam and the West. In fact, they've got a word for those, like us, who don't share their paranoid, racist view of Islam. We're 'dims' (from the Islamic word dhimmi, meaning a non-Muslim living in a Muslim state).
For a taste, read on...
These were posted on FreeRepublic in response to a story about how Tony Blair has been defeated over his plans to extend the time terror suspects could be held without charge, from 14 days to 90.
RetiredArmy believes he knows Islam's plan for domination:
Like the King in Braveheart, what was his name, Longshanks or something like that, said: If we cannot beat them, then we can BREED them out. This is what the arabs are doing in Europe. They will come in by the millions, breed by the millions and simply vote the Brits, French, Norway, Danish, etc. right out and take over. Then institute THEIR islomic law on those countries.
Victor compares the tactic to animals:
The scenario is chilling. It's not at all unlike a parasitic larvae that invades a hosts' bloodstream and then sets out to reproduce itself; eating out the hosts' innards as it does so.
Of course, in the end the host is dead, and so the parasitic organisms also die, not before sending out "breeders" to seek life in new hosts.
Happens in the animal world all the time.
USF is a crusader:
The Koranimals know what their breeding can do to demographics and have perfected the use of islamic wombs as a WMD...
In EUrabia, while the clueless EUro-dhimmis talk about "multiculturalism" and the hug-a-terrorist-crowd jump thru flaming hoops to enforce elements of sharia and as much tolerance of islamic intolerance that a Muslims imagination can conjure up, the Muslims quietly carry on with their plans to breed...
Dark Skies predicts the imminent takeover of a Muslim majority in France:
"The fly in the ointment this time is nuclear warheads and long-range delivery systems (France is reported to have 350 warheads and a delivery range of 3,500 miles). Who will be the first to challenge the Judeo/Christian world...France is teetering on the edge of dhimmitude and Iran threatening the annihilation of Israel while scurrying to produce its own warheads."
Cinnamon believes that this global war is a sign of the endtimes.
then we are in the last days. Armagedon is around the corner and there is nothing we can do about it. only God can sort this one out... aandf he won't be politically correct. his measure is good or bad.. you're bad you go to hell... you're good you come with me
I decided to have a look over on Little Green Footballs, see what their thoughts were in the latest terrorist atrocity in Jordan.
ibmkeyboard opines:
It is time to start destroying terrorists training and support sites.
they are called
Mosques.
Apparently, all Muslims are the same to jrabbit:
All this mayhem and death.....and Mohammad Ali is being honored by President Bush.
These kinds of comment are really on the tip of the iceberg. For a good idea of the obssessiveness of some of these people in regards to Islam, look at this thread, collecting any kind of negative story on Muslims: here.
To many American Conservatives - at least those that make up the netroots 'base' - there is a global war between Islam and the West (or more specifically Christianity, depending on who you speak to). In this war, the plan is to spread by breeding, taking first over Europe and then the United States. Its weapons are multiculturalism and tolerance, preying on witless 'dhimmis' who don't see the obvious Islamic threat. In this world, leftists actively support the terrorists, working in grand coalition with other anti-Americans like the French, the EU, the UN and international charities to weaken America for the final Islamic domination and the rise of the New Caliphate.
No, seriously. I scarcely need tell you how absolutely moronic and fantastical this worldview is. Based on ignorance and racism, and a desire to cast the world as a never-ending fight between good and evil with America as the white, straight, Christian protagonist, I believe it's a serious threat to all the accomplishments liberals have worked towards over the years - tolerance, respect, secularism, rationality.
It's gone too far. These kinds of blogs are now effectively dedicated to the spread of this kind of ignorant worldview, with almost every story in politics somehow cast in the greater light of the world vs. Islam (never mind that fundamentalist Islam predated 9/11, when apparently these guys only just 'realised' the threat). It only seems to get worse and worse. There is continual talk of using nuclear weapons against Mecca or Medina, of setting up internment camps for Muslims, of actually invading European countries and taking their weapons from them so they don't fall into the hands of Muslims. The racism and ignorance is overwhelming - what would have been shocking ten years ago is now acceptable political comment in American discourse.
I'd suggest it's gone beyond simply taking back the White House and returning sanity to foreign policy. The views these people hold must be met head on and defeated soundly. But on what battlefield? Where we can we ever put a stop to this?
Mephisto