tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post1133180758170700693..comments2023-10-06T08:53:14.731-04:00Comments on Eternal vigilance: Responding to Muslim influenceRicketsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579799843541826447noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post-19503045637137519122010-08-12T14:05:13.652-04:002010-08-12T14:05:13.652-04:00Adam:
I don't consider what you wrote a rant ...Adam:<br /><br />I don't consider what you wrote a rant by any means; there is nothing to apologize for.<br /><br />I certainly have no regard for Islam and view Wahhabist sunni Islam as an affront to liberalism; but, at the same time, I think western geo-politics bears quite a bit of the blame for the spread of Sharia fundamentalism. But it's not the United States that has to bear the burden of this, but the peoples of the middle east, northern africa, southern asia, etc.<br /><br />It's a flat out joke that "Sharia Law" would ever be imposed on the West. If, say, in a hypothetical, the Muslim world were to gain ascendancy, they would probably do to us what we did to them. That is, they would stoke a particularly virulent strain of Christian fundamentalism in the West as a geopolitical strategy to control the West.<br /><br />With the West's ascension, the West certainly never had a prayer to impose Christianity on the East or the muslim world. The same principle applies in the reverse.<br /><br />If there is a "nefarious intent" of the muslim businessmen that is behind the NYC mosque, it's certainly not any grand strategy to use the Mosque as a stepping stone to spread the tentacles of Sharia Law in the United States. Rather it would be to further radicalize a chrisitian fundamentalist influence on politics and liberalism in the US. That would do...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post-27951398632813572292010-08-10T20:53:01.052-04:002010-08-10T20:53:01.052-04:00"Most local zoning laws in the US typically p..."Most local zoning laws in the US typically preclude anything like gay bars or strip clubs being opened within a given vicinity of churches or schools."<br /><br />Good point. However, I'm guessing that any such ordinance would focus on the "bar" rather than the "gay", so maybe a non-alcoholic dance hall would be pass. Unfortunately for Gutfield, I don't think that many gays would patronize a venue that was erected as a shrine to conservative intolerance.<br /><br />"I'm not sure how what Greg Gutfeld is doing is any kind of test."<br /><br />He's clearly trying to antagonize people. I was just bringing up his plan because liberals should think about how they will avoid losing ground (literally).<br /><br />I also think that it is important for conservatives to fight their cultural battles in the cultural arena, rather than the legal/political arena.<br /><br />"...Fundamentalist Christianity and American Puritanism is much more of an issue than "islamic fundamentalism" in this country."<br /><br />The "Christian-ists" are definitely more of a threat to liberty than these advocates of <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20090721%2FNATIONAL%2F707209836%2F1138" rel="nofollow">Sharia</a>, if only because of their greater numbers/power. <br /><br />p.s. I originally linked to the wrong site to describe the Cordoba Initiative's views on Sharia law. The above link goes to the proper site.Ricketsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02579799843541826447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post-84480058046801989912010-08-10T09:52:32.700-04:002010-08-10T09:52:32.700-04:00Adam:
Most local zoning laws in the US typically ...Adam:<br /><br />Most local zoning laws in the US typically preclude anything like gay bars or strip clubs being opened within a given vicinity of churches or schools. <br /><br />I'm not sure how what Greg Gutfeld is doing is any kind of test.<br /><br />If Gutfeld was any kind of libertarian, as he claims, he might be more concerned about how anyone convicted of a "sex crime" in the US is being "legally zoned" out of the public sphere.<br /><br />Fundamentalist Christianity and American Puritanism is much more of an issue than "islamic fundamentalism" in this country.<br /><br />The "Freepers," who are all almost uniformly fundamentalist christians, would have a shit fit if some "leftist" made it a public campaign to open a "gay bar" next to a Christian church. They would cite the rule of law of "zoning laws" and the necessity of the public moral good.<br /><br />What a bunch of freakin hypocrites...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com