4 Jun 2009
Hugh Fitzgerald
"We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism."
Jesus H. Christ. What a remark. "The pretence of liberalism." Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, free exercise of conscience, and of course the freedom of women from an ideology that, in every conceivable way, every conceivable "liberal" way, oppresses them, and sometimes even makes them, in their brainwashed state, eager to express their thanks for the outward and visible signs of that oppression. Merely a "pretence of liberalism."
What a farce. How dangerous his particular blend of self-assured presumption, the result of decades of never having been challenged to think or to learn, but rewarded with so many glittering prizes for, it is clear, his "personal narrative" and his "personal journey" -- for Barack Obama takes an inordinate interest in, ana displays an exaggerated respect for, those narratives and those personal journeys, for that is most of what he has to offer, and that is most of what he has been so richly rewarded for, from his days at Columbia, and then at Harvard Law School, where being elected, on grounds other than those of merit, President of the Law Review set him on his ambitious path. Today Gannett House, tomorrow the world!
And there goes "liberalism" when it conflicts, or possibly even encourages hostility toward (and why shouldn't it?) the ideology, and the practices prompted by the ideology, of Islam.
4 Jun 2009
Artemis
"We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism."
He nailed it. He's got us extreme-right-wing-Christians-who-hide-behind-the-pretence-of-liberalism down to a T.
It turns out that we don't really care about the murder of rape victims, the hanging of homosexuals, the forced marriage of prepubescent girls, the beheading of Thai schoolgirls walking to school, the murder of former-Muslims for the "crime" of apostasy, the end of free-speech in the name of not offending Dar al-Islam, and all the rest.
No, our supposed horror and outrage is just an affectation that we use to cloak ourselves in the obviously inherent respectability of "Islamophobia" and "racism".
The longer this farce continues, the more twisted the logic becomes. Its exponentially-growing seething mass will eventually deform the space-time continuum to the point that it will collapse into a singularity and disappear, leaving only rational thought.
4 Jun 2009
Ole Sandberg
Rational thought will disappear into the black hole singularity with the rest of it. Actually, it may be the first thing to go. Most of it is gone already.
