don’t kill people, Muslims do.

” “We should invade their

Public Domain countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.”
Pat Robertson, squinty diverter of storms (except those
God sent to punish gays or liberals): “This man [Muhammad]
by Steve Krulick, Senior Civics Columnist was an absolute wild-eyed fanatic, he was a robber and a
brigand. And to say that these terrorists distort Islam... they
Ignorance and Want, Part 3 are carrying out Islam. I mean: This man [Muhammad] was a
killer and to think that this is a peaceful religion is fraudulent.”
“Fear always springs from Ignorance” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Gary Bauer, bug-eyed Munchkin pancake flipper: “The
cause of this violence is an Islamic culture that keeps hundreds
Scapegoating in America is as American as apple pie. When of millions of people right on the edge of murder and
underlying Ignorance about a convenient underclass became mayhem... 24 hours a day… [9/11] was the first chapter in a
the conventional “wisdom” – “The only good Injun is a dead war with radical Islam. At this very moment, the reality that
Injun”; “No dogs or Irish allowed”; Blacks were only three- we all face is that there are evil men that worship death that
fifths of a person – those casual canards, or similar consensual want to bring us a day much worse than the morning of 9/11.”
dehumanizations, made it easier to treat the members of those Terry Jones, 15-minute-famer-would-be-Quran-flamer:
classes, or the class as a whole, as having few or no rights… “Islam is of the Devil.” (We should be listening to the real
so taking their possessions was not theft, attacking their Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame: “‘We will destroy
families was not violence, even killing them was not murder. terrorism’ is about as meaningful as saying: ‘We shall
That scapegoats often lack power to fight back, or even annihilate mockery.’… War on terrorism? You can wage war
defend against varied and repeated injuries and injustices, is against another country, or on a national group within your
often ignored, so as to paint them as a dire threat, whether as own country, but you can’t wage war on an abstract noun.
savage, inhuman brutes (yet with stealthy, deadly cunning), or How do you know when you’ve won? When you’ve got it
as an unstoppable tide of reproduction that will push the true- removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?… What is
blue Americans off the continent they “stole fair and square.” meant by: ‘We mustn’t give in to the terrorists’? We gave in to
Some bigotries were more regionally-concentrated, such them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.”)
as against Mexicans in the Southwest, Blacks in thethDeep Flip Benham of “pro-life,” anti-Islam Operation Save
South (and later in urban centers), or Chinese in 19 century America, called Islam “a lie from the pit of hell.”
California. Even today, you won’t find the same level of Newt Gingrich, philandering hypocrite amphibian, made
animus in Maine regarding “illegal aliens” from Mexico as is the bizarre proposal that “there should be no mosque near
found in Arizona. Others reach a more pervasive level, usually Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or
during periods of greater national stress, such as the anti- synagogues in Saudi Arabia,” (So, we should drop USA
Masonic and anti-Catholic virulence before the Civil War, or standards to SA levels?!!) and later compared building a
the “Commie Red Menace” during the Cold War era. Muslim community center near Ground Zero to Nazis putting
We’re now in one of those “greater national stress” “up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.”
periods; though some old standby bogeymen can still be Rev. Franklin Graham, Billy Graham’s son: “I understand
propped up to spit at, decades of constant demonizing can what the Muslims want to do in America. They want to build
deflate their scariness, particularly as promised dire impacts as many mosques and cultural centers as they possibly can so
didn’t occur. So, one of the oldest of “Others” was dusted off, they can convert as many Americans as they can to Islam...
given a fresh coat of warpaint, and lined up in the cross-hairs. And I believe... the majority of mosques in this country have
Where movies once pitted their heroes against Nazis & been hijacked by the radicals and Islamists who want to
Nips (40s), Russkies & ChiComs (50s-60s), and then (after the destroy this country. Islam is a very evil religion. All the
Cold War mellowed and the Chinese became our department values that we as a nation hold dear, they don’t share those
store) Latin American drug lords or greedy corporate tycoons, same values at all. I just don’t have the freedom to do this in
the past two decades’ action films have been rife with evil and most Muslim countries. We can’t have a church. We’re not
fanatical ragheads, camel jockeys, hajjis, and sand ni**ers able to build synagogues. It’s forbidden.” Bzzzzt! Nope. Other
from Libya, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan as the villains. than in Saudi Arabia (and that will soon change), experts on
And thus, by extension, 1.5 billion Muslims around the world. religion and government in Muslim lands concur there are
When the US (through the CIA) created and supplied the churches and/or synagogues in almost every Muslim country.
Mujahideen to vex and beat the Soviets in Afghanistan, it Bryan Fischer, American Family Association, called for
begat a Frankenstein monster which, depending on your view, “no more mosques” in the US. Islam is a “totalitarian ideology
either went power-mad and turned on its maker (the “official” that is anti-Christian [and] anti-Semitic,” and seeks “the
story), or became the stateless rogue operatives known as Al extermination of Western civilization… Each Islamic mosque
Qaida (which just means “the Base,” because it was “the is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government…
database” originally referring to the computer file of the Islam is not just a religion. It’s a subversive ideology. As a
thousands of Mujahideen militants) in order to serve the CIA subversive ideology, they can’t seek protection under the First
as the convenient new threat to American interests and “our Amendment… Muslims continue to have as their objective the
freedoms” that would keep the war machine and spies well- Islamization of the entire world, including the US, and are
funded and in charge in the post-Soviet era. Oh, and to justify taught by their god to use force where necessary to accomplish
our invasion of oil-rich and resource-rich countries (which we the goal. The current objective of Muslim activists is to create
reinforced by backing, then tricking, then boxing-in, then a brand new Islamic state – meaning a state like New Jersey or
bombing, then booting Saddam Hussein in what Bush Jr. Montana – out of existing jurisdictions and establish a virtual
insensitively dubbed a “crusade” and, embarrassingly first Islamic homeland in our midst.”
labeled as “Operation Iraqi Liberation,” or OIL). Mark Williams, Tea Party leader/radio host, wrote “the
So effective was the Orwellian morphing of anti-Soviet animals of Allah... are drooling over the positive response that
“freedom fighters” into “Islamo-fascist jihadists” responsible they are getting from New York City officials over a proposal
for nearly every attack or threat against the US or allies, that to build a 13-story monument to the 9/11 Muslim hijackers.”
trillions of dollars to war funding, covert ops, and government Mike Rosen, Denver columnist and Rush Limbaugh
expansion (and severe curtailment of “our freedoms”) has wanna-be, when asked whether an Islamic Center should be
been foisted on a terrified and (kept) ignorant populace. allowed to be built in Lower Manhattan, said, if one is built,
This is the geo-political and profit-driven strategy that he supports terrorists blowing it up. “I think they should be
grew into the broader cultural and social virus we now call allowed to build it, followed by the hijacking of an Iranian
Islamophobia. Opportunist demagogues and cranks latched plane right into that building and blow it to smithereens.”
onto this new scapegoat with a venomous fury unmatched for Houston-based radio host Michael Berry also called for the
decades. Here’s some of what they’ve gotten away with, as “mosque” to be “blown up.”
they’re still allowed to poison the airwaves and newsprint Ignorance, Fear, Hatred, calls for Violence; should we be
without the fate that would befall similar bile directed at, say, surprised that actual attacks on innocent US Muslims have
Jews or Christians: already occurred when these are the seeds being sown daily?
Ann Coulter, black-dressed anorexic doyenne of neo-con (As my research turned up more material than I expected,
bimbos: “Bumper sticker idea for liberals: News magazines the thrilling series conclusion has been pushed to Part 4!)