Two Views on Terror

Two views on terror. Emilio Karim Dabul, WSJ:

I am an Arab-American as well as a fan of "24." The two things are not mutually exclusive, despite what the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other such groups have to say about this season's opening episodes possibly increasing anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice in American society.

Most of the terrorists represented in "24" through the years have been Arab Muslims. Why? Well, probably because most terrorists today are, in fact, Arab Muslims. As a descendant of Syrian Muslims, I am very well aware that the majority of Muslims world-wide are peaceful, hard working, and law abiding. That still does not change the fact that the greatest terrorist threat to the U.S. today comes not from the ETA, the IRA, etc., but from one group: Islamic terrorists.

And this, from Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, via NRO:

In February 2006 I spoke at the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference in The Hague. After one of the sessions, one of the other speakers, Andrew Bostom, and I got into an animated conversation with a liberal writer from New York who is well acquainted with Islamic terror; she now resides in the Netherlands. The writer heatedly insisted that Christian fundamentalism was just as dangerous as the Islamic variety, and that equal attention should be devoted to defeating both. Shortly thereafter she told us that she had to be going, as she was on a bicycle and couldn’t be out after dark, or she risked being attacked. “Who is going to attack you?” asked Bostom. “Christian fundamentalists?”

Bostom’s reductio ad absurdum illustrated several points: first, although it was clear that this American writer in the Netherlands felt threatened by Muslim gangs that preyed on passersby, political correctness prevented her from saying this despite her awareness of the reality of jihad terror. Also, her own actions showed that her equation of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism was absurd. For indeed she had no fear that Christian fundamentalists would attack her on her way home, but about Islamic jihadists she could not be so sanguine. But that didn’t stop her from loudly protesting that the two threats were essentially equivalent.

Mr. Dabul in the WSJ has a few final questions for CAIR (read it all). They are protesting too much you see.

And for a little laugh so you don't cry, understated narrative of events in Britain and comic but no relief in La Belle France. The canaries of our coal mine. Via LGF.

UPDATE: How creepy is this, at UC Irvine. Daniel Pipes speaks on the danger of the destruction of Israel. Students at the university called for Israel to be wiped off the map, and basically said they were biding their time for violent action here. More unfolding at HotAir.

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