O'Reilly blew it on Terry Jones and the koran burning: Diana West - Cultural Weakness: Attacking Jones and defending the koran.

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Odd, isn't it?

When the fringe left (who would be among the first to be slaughtered under sharia law) complain and aim verbal arrows at Terry Jones, the pastor from Florida who barbecued a copy of the koran, it's almost laugh-out-loud funny.

Militant islam kills us. Militant islam slaughters their own. Militant islam blows up churches, slaughter Christians, manufacture heroin.

Militant islam burns bibles by the railroad car full, and the leftists keep their mouth's shut.

At the end of the day, the only scum responsible for those deaths last week are the scum who perpetrated the acts.

There is no moral equivalency here. These sewer dregs don't need an excuse to slaughter each other, let alone Christians.

Jones had precisely and exactly as much right to fry a koran as O'Reilly does to make the millions off his show. He had as much right to fry a koran as any of the many fringe-left nutters have to burn our flag.

O'Reilly is stuck on stupid on this issue. He's played directly into the hands of the fringe-left nutters who not only never want to be held accountable for what THEY do, but who also don't want to hold others accountable for their acts.

Here's the Memo, Bill.

You want to hold someone accountable for spilling blood?

Hold Harry Reid accountable for telling the world we lost the war in Iraq before the surge. Hold Dick Durban accountable for comparing the US Army to Nazis. Hold Barack Obama accountable for kissing the ass if everyone he can on his US apology tour. Hold the entire left accountable for sending our troops overseas, and then not fully and entirely supporting their mission.

Diana West at Big Peace lays it all out.

And O'Reilly?

You blew it. And so did GEN Petraeus.

Cultural Weakness: Attacking Jones and Defending the Koran

Posted by Diana West Apr 8th 2011 at 6:53 am in Featured Story, Islam, Islamic extremism | Comments (0)

What happens when Everyguy Icon Bill O’Reilly pushes the calamitous absurdity that Pastor Terry Jones “has blood on his hands,” and Hezbollah puts a $2.4 million bounty on Jones’ head?

We don’t know.

We do know the epic scale of invective hurled at Jones the world over has helped turn this American citizen who has broken no law but Islam’s into a moving target. But it has also objectified a human being. When Jones is gratuitously disparaged as a “kook,” a “nut,” an “insane Christian” (as O’Reilly said), and much, much worse for his (perfectly logical) symbolic act of putting on trial and burning a copy of a book that codifies conquest and enslavement, supremacism and bigotry, Jones is making a statement. Just as Fitna made a statement. Just as the Pope’s Regensberg Address made a statement. Just as the publication — and particularly the re-publication — of the Danish Motoons made a statement. These statements vary but none of them violate legal, peaceful means of expression. None of them caused the murder and mayhem many Muslims engaged in in illegal and violent and Islamically sanctioned reaction. Geert Wilders is no more responsible for the murders of two Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan following the release of Fitna than the Pope is responsible for the murder of an elderly nun in Somalia following his Regensberg Address than Pastor Jones is responsible for the murders of UN personnel and others in Afghanistan following his Koran-burning act — heretofore unnoticed, by the way, until Hamid Karzai publicly denounced it and called for Jones’ arrest. (It would be most interesting to know the hidden chain of events that drew Karzai into this.)

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