WMAL Suspends Talk-Show Host for Comment on Islam

Voting patterns confirm that (on the sites that rank voting patterns).

I define “Mecca Assured Destruction” as follows: the US Government announces that it will use a nuclear missile on Mecca if:

(1) a nuclear weapon goes off on US soil;
(2) there are civilian casualties; and
(3) there is incontrovertible proof that Muslim extremists participated in the attack.

(To minimize casualties, the US would promise to provide at least two weeks warning to allow civilians to leave Mecca if they so choose.)

I don’t think a MAD policy would be right. I believe it would be extremely immoral. What I want to know is whether it would be EFFECTIVE.

Beware. John McCain lurks!

Both parties are to the left of center. Conservatives are centrists and to the right of center.

I often times fail to make that distinction well enough also. Just call me conservative.

If you were doing that then TRUE conservatives may have been annoyed. Now moderates would put up with you more easily.

Depending on where you are, most Republicans are moderates. Other than me an a few others out there, you have to look very hard to find a true, hardcore, America-loving, patriotic, Conservative. Everything wearing the elephant is not conservative. Beware.

Sorry you feel that way. There is no thinking conservative that I know that that statement is true for. There may be reactionary redneck types that fall on the conservative side of the fence on most issues but I venture to say they couldn’t debate/argue/convey why with any reason. And this is not to say that all rednecks “despise your presence”, in fact it would be a small minority that do. In fact such a small minority that I find so much more racism (100 times more) among liberals and the Democrat party.

Thanks for listening to that point of view.

You make a good point here. There may be fear of reprisal but there is probably another concern of moderate Muslims which is the fear of taking the side of individuals who they feel show disdain for them. In the process of speaking out against terrorism, many attack Islam the religion. A moderate Muslim may very well feel that being vocal against Muslim extremists is jumping on the bandwagon with folks who express hatred for all who practice the religion, and no one wants to to give applause to someone who seems to hate them.

It reminds me of how difficult it was for me to make the transition to supporting the Republican party when viewing so many non-constructive verbal insults thrown at the black community by some Republicans. It took much soul searching before getting over the feeling that by supporting the conservative party I was joining ranks with people who despised my presence.

I have several Muslim friends who have stated to me that they feel alienated; that they have problems on both sides. On one side there are the terrorists that misrepresent Islam and on the other side, those that dislike them simply because they are Muslims. They thus choose to keep quite and simply live their lives. I recall that the greatest expressed hatred for Saddam Hussain that I have ever heard came from a Muslim Iraqi immigrant.

P.S. I apologize for my original post not being appropriate. I am still become familiar with the standards of Ms. Barber’s blog and I meant no disrespect.