You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘The Rubin Report’ tag.

This was published by Barry Rubin at The Rubin Report

News that a crackpot minister at an incredibly tiny church in Florida may burn a Koran is a global story. The man’s plan is condemned by just about everyone, though some point out he has a constitutional right to do so.

There are several, all obvious, reasons for this universal criticism, mainly boiling down to two:

–It is disrespectful to another religion and inappropriate for our society, which is supposed to be tolerant, etc.

–Such a deed might endanger Americans and U.S. foreign policy goals by making Muslims angry and in some cases violent.

A lot of “properly thinking,” good-hearted Americans are feeling mighty guilty, unnecessarily I might add. One young man said, “Why do I feel the need to walk up to Muslims on the street and wish them peace and show them that Americans are not all bigoted racists?…What has happened to my beautiful country?…The day Americans start burning Korans is the day when Osama bin Ladin has won…”

Yes, this is what years of inducing and indoctrinating guilt has done. Simply another example of arguing that the tiniest blemish on Western society or Israel proves they are evil while elephant-sized warts in other countries are to be ignored.

One doesn’t, however, define a country by the most extreme, isolated individuals but by the mainstream. Muslims will only believe that Americans are all bigoted racists (mostly bigoted racists or have any significant number of bigoted racists) if they are told lies about America. Similarly, Americans are being very foolish if they believe this kind of disproportionte nonsense.

Nowadays, the United States can easily win any tolerance competition in the world.  On the other hand, a lot of Americans are very much in the race with the rest of the world about who can be the most anti-American.

See rest of the essay, here.

CiF Watch: A Technorati Top 100 “Politics” and “World Politics” Blog

Exposing the truth about the Global March to Jerusalem

Click image to go to site

CiF Watch Newsletters

Guardian's Israel obsession in one image

Gaza Rocket Counter

Watch videos at Vodpod.

Join our Facebook Page

Follow CiF Watch on Twitter

CiF Watch on Twitter Counter.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 6,340 other followers

http://www.wikio.com

Twitter Updates

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 6,340 other followers