Ishmael
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I'm just suggesting that you and other Western reactionaries make an appropriate distinction between, and an accurate acknowledgement of, the relative numbers of what you call "sheeple" and "those willing to act" who make up the population within Islam. I fail to see why that should be a "problem" or why treating any person with "proper compassion and dignity" who is NOT a terrorist would be "suicidal."
Is it because, as BusyBody loves to squawk, "we can't tell the innocent from the guilty"? What a bizarre affront to our American legal tradition and mandate of innocent until PROVEN guilty. For all you know you come into contact with criminal elements on a regular basis. For all you know you routinely walk the streets, shake the hands and return normal civil courtesies with non-Islamists who would rob you of your possessions, rape your wife and daughter and kill you in your sleep for the $8.64 in the change jar sitting on your dresser. Do you ever give such potential coincidence a moment's thought?
Had you served in the military with Timothy McVey, lived next door to John Wayne Gacey or served a cup of coffee to Ted Bundy, would you have castigated yourself in any way for having failed to discern their criminal proclivities in advance?
If Islam is a religion of hate, is our criminal justice system also lax for having allowed the Ku Klux Klan to exist for decades knowing full well that its members were responsible for all manner of criminal assault and murder throughout the South? What responsibility do we have as a society to repress the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church before one of those nutbags goes offline and actually kills a "fag member of the military in uniform" simply because -- well, you know, he or she was IN uniform?
I fully share your frustration that President Obama and many others fail to identify "radical Islamists" by that appropriate label. But at best, it is a PR irritation. If avoiding the label does nothing to deter the motivations or actions of "those who are willing to act" criminally, where is the evidence that failure to call the enemy by the wholly accurate characterization increases their number? Incorrectly assuming that future criminals who have yet to commit a crime are "hiding under the radar" among a greater population of innocents and that such evasion alone and long before any criminal conspiracy begins formation somehow represents a "moral" failure of government and tactical incompetence of law enforcement is the biggest lie that your own "false equivalency" (i.e. every Muslim is a potential terrorist fully worthy of the most discriminating suspicion) propagates.
That is YOUR "shame" born from YOUR "immoral relativism" which you and far too many others have nonetheless chosen to wear so arrogantly. Such a posture bewilders the minds of normal people who can only attribute such odd beliefs as an inexplicable mutation of biology or sociology which itself is inadequately (but not inaccurately) characterized as "mere ignorance."
You make a strong case except for a few facts.
We know that at least 10% of them do believe that violent acts of terror are condoned by their religion and are willing to act on those beliefs. We know that 50% (+/-) of them are sympathetic to the beliefs and goals of the 10% aforementioned. We are also aware that in spite of assurances from the grand prevaricator that there in NO WAY to properly vet those 'refugees' being foisted on us. It's not as if we have diplomatic relations with Syria and the willing cooperation of that government in the vetting process, do we? Or that we have perfected a "terrorist detector" machine. Not to mention the financial and law enforcement manpower that is going to be consumed 'keeping an eye' on these people. And make no mistake, they ARE being targeted for surveillance.
So while it's nice to sit back and intellectualize the whole "innocent until proven guilty" notion, or the notion of human compassion does that not also apply to your fellow countrymen, friends and neighbors? The very people that would become the victims of these religious fanatics? Fanatics that are in reality not all that fanatical at all when viewed from the context of their own religious teachings and tenets. And as it turns out it is the "peaceful" minority that turn out to be the radicals within the religion.
There being here serves no legitimate national purpose beyond making some few individuals in the halls of power feel better about themselves and to hell with the rest of us.
Ishmael