Only in America

Submitted by Bill Goff (United States), Dec 18, 2002 at 04:00

Most intelligent American's are awaiting the next "911" disaster and don't expect PBS, the Washington Post, CNN, NPR or the NY Times to be any more in touch with reality then, than they are now. They don't understand that apeasement (ala the Clinton Years and former President Jimmy Carter's "We Are The World" attitude) doesn't work.

The PBS broadcast is another self-abasement practiced by this nations media. In 1933, when Nazi rule was just beginning, Churchill spoke of "the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals."

We (Those of us who pay taxes) are paying for PBS to present such praise to Muhammad. There was of course no critical analysis, that wouldn't be politically correct. The country's "most diverse" religious community would not tolerate such an outrage. Any negative criticism (for example comments about Muhammad marriages and other preferences) would have been met with an out cry. In less civilized countries Mr. Pipes for his comments and criticisms might find himself with gasoline soaked tires about his body and set on fire to atone for his sins.

Fortunately Mr. Pipes nor I live in Indonesia, yet.

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