Why Is This So Hard To Understand?

Islamic terrorists brought down an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Islamic terrorists flew two jets into the World Trade Center buildings.

Islamic terrorists flew a jet into the Pentagon.

Islamic terrorists tried to fly a jet into the White House.

An Islamic terrorist tried to set off a shoe bomb during a flight.

Islamic terrorists tried to blow up as many as 10 airliners over the Atlantic.

(Are you seeing a trend here?)

Six Muslim men start performing some ritual, in Arabic, in an airport or on an airliner sitting at the gate.

And somehow it's unreasonable that other passengers might be a little concerned? Other passengers are completely out of line for being a bit anxious?

I think it would be truly unreasonable to expect the other passengers to be aware of the facts regarding Islamic terrorists and airliners, and NOT be concerned when a group of men start chanting in Arabic.

Let's get something straight here: Over the course of the last 20 - 30 years there has been a group of people that have perpetrated heinous acts of violence and evil on innocent people, solely because they don't like the way the innocent people behave or what the innocent people believe. Those people have been followers of specific religion, have generally been from a specific area of the world, have been male, and have been of a certain age group. It is NOT racism or profiling or bigotry to be nervous when a person fitting the description just given starts chanting in Arabic. It is self-protection.

The Islamic fascists have a well-documented history of violence against innocent people. THEY are the ones who have established their own reputation. THEY are the ones that have exhibited a specific pattern of behavior. People are not being suspicious because of their skin color. People are not keeping an eye on them because of their religious beliefs. People are sensitive to them because of factual, documented, repeated deadly behaviors in which members of their religion and ethnicity have engaged. This isn't a bias, it isn't a prejudice, it's a reaction to actions taken. It is unreasonable, dangerous, and just plain stupid to ignore that history and act like nothing has ever happened.

People calling themselves Christian have shot abortion doctors and blown up abortion clinics. Throughout history people who called themselves Christians did horrible things. We routinely see leaders who call themselves Christians bilking people out of their life savings or hiring male prostitutes and doing drugs. We see people who call themselves Christians spewing hatred for homosexuals. We see leaders who call themselves Christian sexually assaulting little boys. So am I surprised when people look at the documented, factual behaviors of people calling themselves Christians, and have doubts about the integrity of my message? Absolutely not. Their doubts are well-placed, and it is my job to show them that the evil behaviors of others calling themselves Christians are simply not acceptable, and that true Christianity is all about something else (namely, love, grace, mercy, and salvation).

So why is it so hard for some people to understand that when people calling themselves Muslims establish a well-documented, factual behavioral pattern of violence and death, we recognize it and react to it?

I am simply fascinated by the fact that Islamic leaders, instead of acknowledging and combating the evil in their midst, expect the rest of the world to simply ignore the facts and act like nothing has ever happened.

This Just In:

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers absolutely suck, especially the defense. As in stink the joint up. As in really, really bad.

I'm okay with the offense. Gradkowski is a rookie with a fair amount of promise. The offensive line has two rookies on the right side. Clayton is only in his 3rd year, and his 2nd year was mostly spent being injured, so it's only his second healthy year. Cadillac Williams is in his second year. All this to say that we have a young offense that is gaining experience and I believe will be improving over the next couple of years.

But the defense... We had a dominating defense several years ago. Those days are long gone. We gave away a lot of picks to get Gruden, and what we've had has been spent on the offense. Now it has caught up with us. We can't tackle. We can't defend the pass. Offenses are pretty much having their way with us.

So what to do? Well, this year is toast, trying to win is a waste of time. The rest of this season should be dedicated to giving the young guys, especially on defense, as much experience as possible. Seriously, sit the starters. Let the up-and-comers get some valuable experience.

Derrick Brooks, I love you, man, you are the ultimate role model. You are what is good and right with professional sports. Announce your retirement at the end of the season.

Smack Juran Bolden up side the head. He can be brilliant on one play, and blow chunks 20 seconds later. He needs to get his act together or get out of Tampa.

It is time for Monte Kiffin to go. It has become clear that a great deal of the coaching skill lay with his assistants, and they are gone. Monte has done a magnificent job over the years, if only in picking great assistant coaches, but it's time for a change.

Jon Gruden had better show something next year, or we will need to switch head coaches as well. He took a team that was taught discipline by Tony Dungy and fired them up enough to win a Super Bowl. But once he was truly on his own, he has sucked royally. Last year was a fluke - we should not have won many of the games we did win, and now we're seeing what a fluke last year was.

You know, if we had just kept Tony, and brought in a true offensive coordinator, and made Tony let him run the offense...

Let's Go Over This One More Time

Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Air flight just the other day, here's the USA Today article. Seems while sitting at the gate, the 6 stood up and started going through their evening prayers. This concerned a passenger enough that he/she passed a note to a member of the crew. The pilot asked the men to step off the plane, they refused, security was called, blah blah blah.

Needless to say, the imams are screaming discrimination, the Council on Islamic-American Relations is promising to get to the bottom of it, and everyone is generally up in arms. But no one is saying the obvious, so I guess I'll jump in there.

If you would just turn in the terrorists, we'd stop being suspicious of every one of you.

There. I've said it. Not every Muslim is a terrorist, but every terrorist is a Muslim. Those of us outside of that religion have no way of telling the difference, so we tend to err on the side of NOT GETTING KILLED, know what I mean?

Look, we all know that silence implies consent. As long as all the "peace loving" Muslims out there allow their terrorist brethren to run around killing innocent people without making a single move to stop them, I (and a whole lot of other people) will hold them ALL responsible. You want the suspicion to end? TURN IN THE KILLERS AMONG YOU. Really, it's quite simple.

But let's look at a couple of quotes from the article. I really find some of these attitudes to be quite amazing. How about this one: "They took us off the plane, humiliated us in a very disrespectful way," said Omar Shahin, of Phoenix.

Really? Were you humiliated in the same way that the Americans whose burned bodies were dragged through the streets were humiliated? Were you humiliated kinda like the people who were savagely beheaded were humiliated? Was it along those lines?

Here's another: "I never felt bad in my life like that," he said. "I never. Six imams. Six leaders in this country. Six scholars in handcuffs. It's terrible." Yeah, six leaders who should be doing everything in their power to help the authorities catch and imprison the lawless, soul-less killers within their religion, but who instead do nothing. Wow, I feel for ya, bro. It's absolutely tragic. You went out in public in a nation that has been attacked by members of your religion and you put on a display, flaunting your religious membership, and then you're amazed that people reacted? Or is that what you wanted?

Listen, brother Omar, if you want to understand what it means to "feel bad", why don't you go talk to the families of the people who were beheaded? Why don't you chat up the husbands and wives and children of the innocent people on those four airplanes that members of your religion used as WMDs on 9/11/01? I bet they could school you on "feeling bad."

And now from CAIR: "CAIR will be filing a complaint with relevant authorities in the morning over the treatment of the imams to determine whether the incident was caused by anti-Muslim hysteria by the passengers and/or the airline crew," Hooper said. "Because, unfortunately, this is a growing problem of singling out Muslims or people perceived to be Muslims at airports, and it's one that we've been addressing for some time." WELL, DUH! Muslim terrorists flew jets into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and were trying for the White House, and just a couple of months ago they tried to take down as many as 10 trans-Atlantic flights out of London. (BTW, let's not forget Lockerbie.) You better believe there's a little anti-Muslim hysteria involved, especially at airports! Once again, if you would just turn in the killers, prove that you don't agree with them, maybe some of these things would go away.

And my favorite: Shahin expressed frustration that — despite extensive efforts by him and other Muslim leaders since even before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — so many Americans know so little about Islam. "If up to now they don't know about prayers, this is a real problem," he said. So, members of your religion kill thousands of innocent people, you do nothing but give a little lip-service to pooh-poohing what they did but don't take any real action, and somehow it's MY responsibility to understand YOUR religion? That I'M wrong for not understanding YOU? Uh, I don't think so. I don't expect any non-Christians to understand my faith, and I don't see where it's my job to understand Islam's rituals and requirements. Until your religion engages in some serious self-cleansing, if you stand up on an airplane and start chanting in Arabic, you're going down, it's just that simple.

I will not stand idly by and allow your nutjobs to kill me or my loved ones. If you don't want me to take action, you will need to take action - namely, turn in every one of the terrorists (and the religious leaders who spur them on, and the financial backers as well). Stop brainwashing your children with anti-Semitic, anti-American, "death to the infidels" crap. STOP HATING AND KILLING US, AND WE'LL NO LONGER HAVE A REASON TO DISTRUST YOU.

Geez, it's really that simple.