What with the Fort Hood mass murderer, the Christmas Pantybomber and now the Times Square Bomber, you may have noticed a little uptick in attempted terrorist attacks on the U.S. mainland in the last few months.
Representative Lamar Smith did, and, at the House Judiciary Committee, was interested to see if the Attorney-General of the United States thought there might be any factor in common between these perplexingly diverse incidents.
“In the case of all three attempts in the last year, the terrorist attempts, one of which was successful, those individuals have had ties to radical Islam,” said Congressman Smith. “Do you feel that these individuals might have been incited to take the actions that they did because of radical Islam?”
“Because of …?”
“Radical Islam,” repeated Smith.
“There are a variety of reasons why I think people have taken these actions,” replied Eric Holder non-committally. “I think you have to look at each individual case….”
An excellent article by Steyn, as usual. He brings up several good points about the West’s creeping acceptance of Islamism. One thing he doesn’t mention is that the largest Middle Eastern nation in the “Organization of the Islamic Conference” has a significant Christian minority, and to treat it, as Obama did in his Cairo speech, as “the Muslim world” is to throw those Christians to the rhetorical lions. Are we allowed to talk about “the Christian world” anymore? Where have we put our spines?
I don’t seem to remember the current administration in Washington having any problems enunciating the phrase “right wing Christian militias.”
Someone wrote recently, “you cannot fight against that which you cannot name”. If this administration cannot bring themselves to name the enemy, then we are doomed.
These people are going to get us killed.
coward they name is Eric Holder.
Holder is only following orders from the real coward.
Ahem…that would be coward in chief, Mr. Upnorfjoel.