Oh boy. In a stunningly anti-climactic move CAIR announced it was suing US Airways over the Flying Imams incident of late last year. Now I really want to fly somewhere, just to throw some money at US Air. This is going to be one hell of a show. I absolutely can not wait until they put them on the stand. One of the aggrieved waxed at length in the press conference about how people were jailed in his native country for their religious differences and it made him sad to see it here in “It’s discrimination” said Omar Shahin. Absolfuckinglutely. My tolerance isn’t unconditional. Until somebody grabs the mike and starts denouncing things like child rape and wife beating you’re going to get the greasy eyeball. Because no one on Omar’s end has bothered to place that pause in our thinking. I think we can all agree that after 9/11 this country went out of its way to check itself before resorting to the lowest common denominator. Five years on Islam is by and large rubbing it back in our faces. This isn’t multiculturalism, this is myculturalism.
I’ve got a few talking points for Omar and his myrmidons. Before this country ever got around to writing a constitution it wrote a few lines that go something like “all men are created equal”. It took us a few centuries to work out the kinks, but we’ve taken the idea that those lines mean everybody to heart. That includes the women you beat, the children you rape, and the people you slaughter because they pray to a different god. Okay, you don’t participate in those activities. But your co-religionists do and you have yet to utter a peep in denouncement. That, and not your praying five times a day, is why you are not given the benefit of the doubt. One more thought: Freedom of religion does not equate to freedom to be a jackass.
Ares
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