30 Nov 2006
Reactionry
Westminster Town Hall Meeting, you're bringing me down......./ Perhaps I'm only bringing coals to "New Castile Review" or "The Jihad Watch Match", but the reaction of someone who knows, say, about .001% about Islam as does HF, might be worth noting: *Reza Aslan is very, very, good - and very, very slick*. I caught several minutes of his speech at the "Town Hall Meeting" held at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio on or about November 2, 2006. At first I didn't know who was speaking and thought I detected a hint of an accent. I even thought for a moment(maybe I've got something of a tin ear)that I might be listening to Dinesh D'Souza, before sputtering explicatives at the car radio(I do this often, and this may be dangerous, but at least one of my "nevers" is never using a cell phone while driving) As best as I could determine, the "Presbyterians"(presumably very liberal and very well-educated) seemed to be suffering from presbycusis with respect to history, if not common sense,given that those running-dhimmi dogs seemed to lap up RA's quips and assurances of Muslim moderation. My gut reaction to that Aural Exam was a wish to shove a very stiff No. 2 Bleistift into the ears of those Useful Infidels in order to improve their hearing in the manner of what Amerind women did in picking at the remains of Custer on Little Big Horn's plains. (Of course, unlike those Iraqis who revel in drilling holes in the living skulls of their fellows, I would never actually *do* such a thing) Now, I might be wrong, but I think that RA is a lying sack of Shiite. And even if RA believes his own twaddle, this might make him more, rather than less, dangerous. Both Robert Spencer and HF have written pieces about RA, but it might be worthwhile listening to his smooth-as-velvet voice, available online through MPR. -as I might, in its entirety, though, taking into consideration the safety of the driving public, not behind the wheel. I've also caught a bit of Keith Ellison on the radio. He seemed to be affecting the "Aw shucks" schtick mentioned by HF when he stated that his religion was "no big thing"(or maybe it was, "no big deal") FWIW, John Podhoretz, who has ties to Minnesota, seems to regard KE as an enemy, although Mitch Perlstein, of the "American Experiment" think tank, does not. The Minnesota Jewish World newspaper endorsed KE during his campaign. Then again, it also runs some over-the-kepaw(yarlmuke)pieces such as one in which an Israeli castigates his countrymen for continuing to somehow oppress the good people of Gaza even after the Israeli withdrawal. Unfortunately my wife threw out that copy which I had been saving, but I think one of the lines was, "We occupy them with our lifestyle." -reminded me of some very vague memories of what I thought, or at least construed, as Herbie Marcuse's view of Western prosperity as constituting some sort of aggression against the Eastern Bloc. In closing, if the (Red)StarTribune covered the story passed on by Bove about KE taking the oath of office on a Koran, I missed it.