Is that Muslims asserting their Humility, then?

“Until our mosques dominate this place
We’ll demonstrate in the public space
No prayers in private – too sincere -
We’ll pray in public – it spreads more fear.

You Westerners must move aside
We’ll pray in the street and show Muslim pride
So you see us, and show the proper respect
Due to the petro-dollar-funded-elect.

Our public displays of pious unity
And demands for tolerance and ecumenity
Do not mean that we must tolerate you
Or the un-Islamic things that you do.

After you submit, we’ll tell you what’s right,
And who’s your friend and who you must fight
And how to keep honor – just lie and cover up
Until then, don’t make jokes about belts that blow up!”

The answers to your closing questions are simple:

1. The media rely upon access. Publish unflattering stories about the sources, and voila, no access!

2. Surely you are acquainted with Threepenny Opera? The elites have always made excuses for people who should be hounded out of civil society.

The media and “intelligentsia” make common cause w/ totalitarians because the intelligentsia believe there is no Right or Wrong… only the pursuit and retention of Power. And, many of them are totalitarians in their desires, too. I should also note that they don’t want to upset the violent ones.

3. All that is required to connect the dots is a desire to do so.

A closing thought… be happy that many of the civil Republicans you encounter also are proficient at firearm usage. The effete snobs on the Upper West Side are not… though they may employ some folks who are.

“There is no logical explanation for why the mainstream media and the intelligentsia are so silent about anti-Israel racism.”

Actually there are several. As another poster beautifully stated, there is always a danger of fashion over content. Fashion is indeed a very powerful force.

But there are more reasons as well. For decades various groups have sought to create special status for themselves often for excellent reasons. But it really was a slippery slope. We moved from equal rights to special rights for groups based on race or even, as in the case of the Jews, on perception of race. This was still rational as Jews where widely discriminated against as if they where a race. So protection as such seemed necessary.

Two important shifts occurred, one which I already mentioned, from equal rights before the law to preferred status and rights at the expense of others. Affirmative action for example.

The second, the one which concerns me the most was the shift from defining a group based on a genetic tie that binds, one to which there is no choice and more importantly no other predictive quality other than gender or color to groups based on a tie that binds which is based on beliefs. In essence this means that a group can form, which is bent on the most abhorrent ideologies and get a pass from criticism or rightful prosecution and even persecution merely because it defines itself as a group, in the case of Islam, a religion. Somehow it became tantamount to racism to question or criticize it.

Typically I ask people where would Europe be now if Galileo had not ridiculed and published excellent works mocking the Medieval Catholic Church and its stance on scientific explanations of celestial mechanics? The irrational left is usually able to grasp that one.

In essence we created this problem by attempting to correct real and perceived historical injustices by sacrificing the most sacred core of liberal ideals. Free speech and true equality before the law and confusing the right to attack irrational authority be it religious or political with racial slander.

To attack Israel as a nation did not used to be the same as attacking Jews. But that distinction was blurred by the enemies of the jews looking for a rhetorical device to bring the question of the right of jews to exist in a manner that was acceptable to secular leftists. This worked extremely well.

It will not be an easy road back to reason. One could argue the Greeks never recovered from barbarian invasion.

Your feelings and thoughts are shared by plenty of Leftists, but unfortunately, only a few gather courage to express them.

“Jesse Jackson: American Zionists Will Lose Clout Under Obama
More hope and change and anti-Zionism for America…
Considering all of Obama’s mentors and spiritual guides including Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, and most of the socialists in his background are virulent anti-Semites, this news today really comes as no surprise.”

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/jesse-jackson-american-zionists-will.html