In the Boston area, one of our talk radio stations is WRKO. This morning, Tom “The Felon” Finneran and his guest co-host Jennifer Something-or-Other were discussing the NY proposed Islamic Center issue. I’m getting so sick of this, and hearing these ignoramuses really makes me depressed about what kind of future our world will be. When Hans-Hermann Hoppe speaks of the process of decivilization, thanks to democracy, he ain’t kidding.
Both The Felon and Jennifer Whatever were agreeing that we need to continually repeat the showing of the planes crashing into the WTC twin towers and people jumping to their deaths, with Jennifer especially noting that “Muslims need to be reminded” with all the typical collectivist claptrap mindset that apparently Jennifer possesses. She’s literally saying that ALL Muslims are responsible for 9/11, which is pretty much what I’m hearing other radio talk show Archie Bunkers saying.
The Felon was pointing out how immoral it is for these Muslims to murder innocent Americans. And he leaves it at that. Is he unaware that the U.S. government has been murdering innocent civilians overseas? Is he aware of it, but thinks that’s okay, because those are Middle-Easterners and not Americans? Or, does he think that it’s okay for the U.S. government to kill innocent human beings but it’s not okay to kill innocent Americans? Does he know that the U.S. government and its military have been killing innocent women and children, wedding parties and school gatherings in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan (Iran is next) for many years now? This neanderthalish moral relativism is a direct result of majority rules democracy, that feeds the desire to define human beings by groups and not as individuals.
I am not with the mob rule simpletons, however.
It’s easy for these neanderthals to dehumanize the victims of State-committed atrocities, especially when those targets for annihilation are located in less advanced societies. That’s been my observation, anyway. It implies that the inhabitants of those societies have lesser value as human beings and makes their murders acceptable. I compare that to rationalizing abortion, as far as assigning to the unborn a status of lesser value as human beings based on their less advanced stage of development.
The Archie Bunkers out there have been talking about the “mosque” issue in terms of Muslims not really having rights as human beings, not really having First Amendment rights or other basic rights that are inherent in human beings, as the Declaration of Independence states.
As noted in yesterday’s post that referred to Glenn Greenwald’s post on this, the anti-Muslim hatred, anger and bigotry, blaming ALL Muslims for 9/11, isn’t to do with the Ground Zero NYC location, because the knuckle-draggers are foaming at the mouth about mosques in other cities. It’s no longer about 9/11, no longer about Ground Zero.
Will Grigg very well elaborates on the intolerance of the anti-Muslim crusaders.
This intolerance and these campaigns to block the building of Islamic mosques all across America is very dangerous, here in a country where the right of people of all religions was to be protected. At least, that’s what the Founding Fathers thought. So much for “original intent,” which is usually what we hear the conservatives screaming about.
Given how Barack Obomber, with the assistance of his predecessor, is turning our country into the Soviet Union, which showed nothing but intolerance toward religions and religious people, we better watch out. After the Muslims, the Jews are next, and then the Christians, I’m sure you’ve heard all that. The so-called “Christian” Archie Bunker bigots out there don’t seem to really understand what they’re really doing, in my opinion. The Soviet’s religion was the State. They worshiped the State, and in modern America, so do the warmongering conservatives, as much as the Obommunist ignoramuses. People have been wondering out loud whether Obama is a Muslim or a Christian. Obama’s religion is the State.
Like Soviet communists and their love for territorial expansionism, the warmonger conservatives believe in the expansion of the U.S. federal State across foreign lands, knocking over anyone who gets in their way. That is how true believing State-worshipers think. And with their collectivist mindset, as they blame ALL Muslims for 9/11, the warmongers who think State murders of innocents is a-okay now want to eradicate all the Iranians because of their one crackpot dictator.
Could all you Archie Bunker neanderthal ignoramuses out there please stop this anti-Muslim frenzy of yours? I’m sick of having to spend so much time on this issue here in this space, like this is still the 7th Century.
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