by Jerome du Bois
While updating our moribund blogroll, I dropped Dean's World, and here's why.
Dean Esmay has blinders on when it comes to Islam. When I read his recent "Fisking The Islamophobes" piece, I was appalled at the lowball. He chose some bozo from Pluto to go after. Dean Esmay, binary genius, picks on a guy even Keith Olberman could handle. When I was done reading it I asked myself, Hasn't this guy ever heard of Robert Spencer?
Bingo. Not long after that Spencer posted a response, and Spencer whupped him. Then it went back and forth in a typical blogospheric roundelay, and readers may follow the links at their leisure; but let me get back to that first posting.
Out of all the postings by all the anti-Islam commenters in all the world, including me, he picks the easiest target of them all.
Them's some cojones, Dean Esmay. And that's a tell.
Sad to say, I think he's afraid of Muslims. Afraid of misunderstanding them. Afraid of offending them.
They have a word for that nowadays, don't they? Islamophobia. Fear of Islam. Oh, wait, Dean Esmay wants to slap that label on people like me.
Let me be clear. I am not afraid of Islam or any Muslim. After watching thousands of my fellow innocent Americans murdered on live television by Muslims --after much reading and research and study --and beheadings-- I rationally concluded that this religion and millions of its adherents hate every way of life which is not theirs, and theirs is anti-freedom, anti-life, and dreadfully misogynistic. These true believers are strangers to reason. So it is rational, in the name of free life, to hate them right back. And I do.
And, Dean Esmay? There's nowhere to run to, baby, no place to hide.
Ask Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Then ask Theo van Gogh.
Posted by Jerome at May 19, 2006 08:50 PM | TrackBack