Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Dorothy Rabinowitz

Dr. Phil and the Fort Hood Killer
His terrorist motive is obvious to everyone but the press and the Army brass.



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For years I maintained a subscription to the WSJ for, as much as anything, Dorothy Rabinowitz columns.  I will describe her as someone with common sense (a none too common attribute today) who writes good. Tenacious too. Her 1995 story [A Darkness in Massachusetts] about the insane prosecution of the Amirault family in the Fells Acre Day Care case, sparked a nine-year crusade to win their freedom.   To read that saga today will help us understand how, if not why, a national hysteria can lead to an Obama. Here's a snippet of the bitch slap she lays on the Dr. Phils who've Oprah-nized a whole society.
A shocked Dr. Phil, appalled that the guest had publicly mentioned Maj. Hasan's Islamic identity, went on to present what was, in essence, the case for Maj. Hasan as victim. Victim of deployment, of the Army, of the stresses of a new kind of terrible war unlike any other we have known. Unlike, can he have meant, the kind endured by those lucky Americans who fought and died at Iwo Jima, say, or the Ardennes?

The quality and thrust of this argument was best captured by the impassioned Dr. Phil, who asked us to consider, "how far out of touch with reality do you have to be to kill your fellow Americans . . . this is not a well act." And how far out of touch with reality is such a question, one asks in return—not only of Dr. Phil, but of the legions of commentators like him immersed in the labyrinths of motive hunting even as the details of Maj. Hasan's proclivities became ever clearer and more ominous. [Article]

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, remember when they hung the Rosenbergs? Time to get back on the horse.

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Anonymous said...

The Rosenberg's were given the Chair not the Rope. I hope this Hasan guy gets the same.



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B....... said...

Well, I see that journalists raise funds for troubled Fort Hood shooter. I don't expect this to end with Hasan buried alive in pig guts.

OK, the article is by Scrappleface Scott Ott, but just wait.......

Ron said...

I've shotgunned this to several places, so why not here?

:otta chatter about how this guy Hasan was a good American and that he couldn't possibly have been associated with any extremist Muslim groups. Also see stuff in the British newspapers that the Pentagon fears a "backlash" against Muslims serving in our military. Geraldo Rivera, very predictably, has taken the stand that Hasan simply snapped and the shootings weren't premeditated. Janet Napolitano is "working with Muslim groups" to "facilitate mutual understanding" and "prevent any repercussions or reprisals."

Sheeeeeessssshhhhh!!!! What the HELL is WRONG with us??!!

The term "American Muslim" is an oxymoron, a contradiction in logic by two diametrically opposed concepts locked in eternal conflict with each other. To be an American is to prefer freedom to submission; to choose free will over blind obedience; to favor individual achievement over drone compliance; to support free enterprise over hive slavery; to dream of a better future rather than to long for a medieval nightmare.

To be an American is to raise your daughters with the attitude that they can do anything a man can do, not to subjugate them as chattel to their fathers and husbands. An American daughter is given an education, not an indoctrination. American girls are allowed to make choices and mistakes, not just meals and babies. American fathers love their little girls and treat them like princesses; they don't slaughter them like goats in the name of fragile male honor.

A true Muslim gives himself completely to a selfish, jealous, petty, vengeful god. A true American gives his devotion to a loving, caring, understanding, forgiving god. A true Muslim considers himself responsible for converting infidels to Islam and killing those who reject his faith. A true American considers himself responsible for protecting his family and killing those who attack his country.

A Muslim can no more be a good American than a lemming can be a wolverine. The concepts are irreconcilably inimical. Although a Muslim might live his entire life in America, be a good citizen of America, and never cause a moment's trouble for America, he can not ever be a true American unless he is a non-practicing Muslim, for the rules of behavior and decision making are totally incompatible.

"American Muslim" will forever be a deceptive misnomer, much like "alone in a crowd" or "nearly pregnant"; it simply cannot exist in nature. One is either a Muslim or an American, never both simultaneously. And those absurdly politically correct pantywaists among us who fear a backlash against "American Muslims" as a result of the lunatic Hasan's amok spree at Ft. Hood are only borderline Americans at best.

Why would a resentment, suspicion, even a backlash directed at an enemy in our own back yard be a bad thing? I think Joe Liebermann just may be onto something.

Gayle Miller said...

Ron, we've let political correctness and "Kumbaya" rot our brains!

Anonymous said...

Joe Liebermann just won himself an early re-election. IMHO....

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Anonymous said...

They didn't hang the Rosenbergs. They fried them like fritters!

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