Friday, February 12, 2010

If you don't like my rules, I am going to take my ball and go home.

What happens when two opposing sides play by two sets of rules? If we're talking checkers, and say you get two moves to your opponents one, how long would it take to win the game? 5 minutes? Two? If we're talking basketball, and lets say one side gets to play 6, while the other only plays 5, I think the score might be 162-18. If we're talking elections, and one guy spends $2,000,000 while his opponent spends $2,000, well you get the idea. We have SEEN that at work. But what happens when one group of people demand to be treated different than the rest of us? And the rest of us cannot even say anything about let alone do something about it. I am talking about the unspeakable.

Muslim groups around the world, peaceful or fanatical, are demanding this of the rest of us. The whole Danish cartoon thing stands out as the brightest beacon of light. Draw a picture of our God and die for it? Why? Because some prophet hundred's of years ago wrote that it is OK to kill in the name of religion? How many jokes have started with, "So this guy goes to heaven and is standing before God...?" Substitute Allah for God and you have some Jihadist at your front door. I know, respect religion and all. But do we really have to die because of it? You can't be a devoted servant AND have a sense of humor?

In 2004, France banned the wearing of headscarves in the classroom to basically protect their secularism, trying to keep religion out of schools where it has no place. Students were expelled who refused to follow the rules. So in retaliation, 2French journalists were kidnapped. The ransom? Overturn the ban on headscarves, basically saying, "We refuse to play by your rules, so we demand the rules be changed." And this year, there was rioting in Malaysia because local Christian groups were heard using the word Alla, no "H", a literal translation of the word God in the Malaysian language in its services and brochures. The reason? Muslim leaders were worried it would lead other Muslims to convert to Christianity. Yea, riiight, like THAT would ever happen.

Fast forward to today and the upcoming furor: body scanners at the airport. Muslim American Groups are supporting a Fatwa, a religious ruling, that forbids Muslims, men and women, to go through these intrusive scanners. I can understand the need for this technology, in light of the ever growing and adapting strategies of the fanatical Muslim suicide brigade. Personally, if some security guard is going to get his or her ya-ya's off by seeing a digital replication of my penis, I say, "Have fun with that." But once again, here is the Muslim community demanding that they get to play but a different set of rules. It's only a matter of time before some suicide bomber throws a Burka over himself and walks into an airport.

I know the figures, OK? I know that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful, kind, and productive members of society. I am not worried about them. I am worried about the lunatic fringe that exists within that community. And when that community of people finally wake up and realize that we are doing this for all, not just for any one group, this country and the rest of the world will be a little bit safer.

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