Sunday, April 25, 2010

Oh My Allah! They Killed Western Civilization!

Remember the days when anti-war protesters cried out that it was unjust to let Western contract security guards or US military personnel escape prosecution in Iraq by being brought to the US to face charges?

Yes, they said that was a case of modern day extraterritoriality that mocked the rights of Third World people of color to defend themselves with their own legal systems.

I guess it is OK for radical Islam to claim their religious views on the depiction of Mohammed apply to America and the rest of the non-Moslem world. Worse, yet another Western institution has accepted that jihadi interpretations of Islam can be enforced here.

Comedy Central has caved to jihadi demands that the South Park cartoon not show cartoon images of Mohammed. (Do the jihadis not read the disclaimer that the figures in the show bear no relation to reality and are, in fact, drawn badly?)

Comedy Central has gotten some push back, and justly so.

And for those who insist that Islamo-fascism is authentically Third World and so must be elevated higher than our own Western civilization, ponder this:

"The Arab language propaganda produced in wartime Berlin was a significant chapter in the longer history of radical Arab nationalism and militant Islam."

Islamic radicalism with waves of jihad predate Hitler, of course. But isn't it interesting that the shadow of Nazism lingers on to torment us both in the Baathist and other nationalist ideologies of the Arab world and Islamism itself? Can't you just feel the indigenous authenticity?

But until somebody can demonstrate Tea Party influences in Islamo-fascism, Islamist extraterritoriality will continue to exert influence in our upper class sophisticates. And they'll go along with jihadi efforts to kill our traditions of freedom of speech and thought.