Obama and the Media's Muslim "Fear" Meme
Obama and his media allies have responded to the latest Muslim terror attack in America by condescendingly lecturing Americans about their "fear". Fear is their argument to anyone questioning their policies.
Don't want to bring 1,300 Syrian ISIS supporters to America? It's just fear.
Do you think we need to get serious about fighting Islamic terrorism? Stop being so afraid.
Maybe it's time to talk about Islamic terrorism? Stop with the FEAR already!
The message is that law enforcement (in its current crippled politically correct form) has this covered already and anyone who disagrees is speaking out of fear.
The New York Times headlined its editorial, "Fear Ignorance, Not Muslims".
While ignorance, such as the kind that leads the Times to refuse to address the Islamic basis for the violence, is a problem... ignorance does not walk into a room and open fire. That's what Muslim terrorists do.
Ignorance does not plant bombs on planes. It doesn't behead screaming hostages. It doesn't stab children in the middle of the streets. It doesn't plant bombs at marathons.
The New York Times' favorite new oppressed pets do all that.
The media doesn't want us to be afraid of Muslim terrorism. Instead we should be afraid of a phantom backlash against Muslims. "A bullet-riddled Quran had been left at a mosque in Orange County, and violent threats were phoned in to the Islamic Center of Southern California."
Even assuming either of those are real, and considering the history of fake Islamophobia scares there's reason to wonder, it's not quite up there with 14 dead bodies. Never mind 3,000.
There's no equivalence between Muslim terror and the so-called anti-Muslim backlash that the media screeches about to the exclusion of actually addressing the Islamic terror threat.
Attorney General Lynch has announced that she is most worried about anti-Muslim rhetoric. That would explain why the San Bernardino massacre happened. Our top law enforcement figures are too busy trying to censor criticism of Islam to fight Islamic terrorism.