Regarding the Bill O'Reilly/View flap over Muslims and the firing of Juan Williams from NPR over his comments about Muslims:
I am trying to figure out what is so awful about what they said. O'Reilly said that Muslims attacked us on 9/11. That is factually accurate, yet progressives are astonished and offended by the remark. He also said that there is a Muslim "problem" in the world. He's right. There is. Williams said that when he gets on a plane and sees people in Muslim garb it makes him nervous. Williams, though I disagree with him on many issues, is no bigot. And I'm willing to admit that if I get on a plane and see some obvious Muslims, I will entertain thoughts about whether that plane is in trouble. Given the fact that virtually all terrorist attacks over the past 20 years have been committed by Muslims, it seems to me that one would have to be obtuse to the point of being brain dead to not have the thought pass through one's mind.
But apparently giving voice to such a rational thought is a firing offense at NPR. And stating the obvious about who attacked us on 9/11 is sufficient for ladies on the View to storm off in a huff. I'm reminded of Jesse Jackson's comment years ago that when he hears someone behind him on the street and he looks back, he is relieved to see the person is white. That was Jackson's rational assessment of the odds of being mugged by a black vs. a white. Evidently such rational assessments are no longer tolerated.
It seems that for progressives Muslims are simply the latest group to be protected against anything that they deem to be "hate speech". Yet another example of how progressives are so much more enlightened. Might we one day have to refer to jihad as the "j-word"?
Maybe I'm just a knuckle-dragging neanderthal, but I don't get why certain folks cannot abide opinions that have a basis in empirical experience.
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