For CAIR Muslim sensitivities in matters of speech are more important than non-Muslim sensitivities about things like murder

by Clifford F. Thies

From KnoxNews.com:

NASHVILLE - Tea party organizers will not drop a speaker from a Tennessee convention this weekend despite calls from a national Muslim rights group that considers her anti-Islamic.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations had urged that Pamela Geller be cut from the Tennessee Tea Party Convention in Gatlinburg over her views on Muslims. Washington-based CAIR said in a release Thursday that it objects to Pamela Geller's presentation titled "The Threat of Islam."

Convention organizer Anthony Shreeve said in an e-mail today that Geller will speak despite those concerns.

"We will not follow any request from CAIR," Shreeve said. "We also believe in the right to freedom of speech as given to us by our U.S. Constitution."

Geller heads a group called Stop Islamization of America.

Am I the only person to notice that, to CAIR, anything considered to be an insult to Muslims is not to be tolerated, but Muslims don't have to consider the sensitivities of non-Muslims?

They want to build a Mosque at Ground Zero, which, of course, in this country, is their right. The United States is NOT a Muslim country where buidling a house of worship other than of the official state religion requires special permission if is simply prohibited. We are a western nation and believe in the separation of church and state.

Freedom of Religion includes Freedom for Christians and Jews

And, of course, we oppose the Islamization of the United States. We like freedom of religion, along with all of our other freedoms; and, we like equality before the law, not one status for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Or, excuse me, am I supposed to not know what "Islamization" means?

CAIR calls Geller a hater for her insensitivity to the sensitivities of Muslims for any depiction of Mohammed or of Muslims as violent or inspiring violence. No, you guys do not get to impose your silly ideas about images onto us. We had our Enlightenment.

In our country, a person can create the "Piss Christ," and the debate will be about the use of government funds, not the right of a pervert like Robert Maplethorpe to do such a thing. Same thing with political cartoons of Mohammed. Good-mannered people generally avoid offending the sensitivities of others. But, let's get real, there's a certain rough and tumble in the free market of ideas.

While being ultimately sensitive about depections of Mohammed and of Muslims, CAIR is totally insensitive to the sensitivities of non-Muslims to being blown-up, beheaded, burned or knifed to death, and otherwise being terrorized by people who call themselves Muslims, who quote the Koran, and who are treated as martyrs by the majority of Muslims world (actually, this looks to be changing, as global opinion polls indicate growing condemnation by Muslims of radical Islamic terrorism).

The incessant response of CAIR to violence perpetratwed by Muslims upon non-Muslims is that we non-Muslims should not "over-react." Yes, that's right, they try to shift the blame onto us. Now they have dumb ass politicians thinking that terrorists must be White People, because Islam is a religion of peace and only White People are capable of being evil. For example, the Times Square bomber must be a White Person. Hey, CAIR and your dumb ass political friends, White People have no problem calling terrorists what they are, no matter their race or religion. Now, let's say it together: KKK, terrorsists. Nazis, terrorists. Radical Muslims ... can you say it? .... it starts with a "t" ... Can't quite get the word out, can ya? Can't quite say that anybody other than a White Person can be a terrorist.

CAIR talks in vague generalities about "all who commit violence," while NEVER naming names. We know that many Muslims do not consider the slaughter of infidels (such as us) to be violence. Therefore, we know the word game that CAIR is playing. They are trying to appear to be non-violent to mush-braned liberal westerners, and ALSO to not offend the many Muslims who believe that Muslims have the right to enslave or kill infidels because the Koran says this and because Muslims have been doing this since Mohammed turned evil on non-Muslims.

It's time for CAIR to join with the rising number of Muslims in the world who do not distinguish among acts of violence based on the religions of the perpetrator and the victim, and stop trying to placate the extremists within the Muslim world. (By the way, a large number of Muslim scholars, perhaps the majority, have a very reasonable interpretation of the parts of the Koran that sound so awful, considering those verses as employing exaggeration, along with requiring reconcilation of those verses with the totality of the Koran and with what we know through reason. These scholars are, nevertheless, conlicted between fully joining with other men and women of good will who are not Muslim and breaking off from their throw-back co-religionists.)

In the meanwhile, we notice that CAIR calls Geller a hater even though she has not bombed, beheaded, knifed, burned or otherwise murdered anybody, and refuses to identify Muslims who do such things as terrorists. Different strokes for different folks? That's not the way we do it in America.