Thursday, November 12, 2009
"Jihadi Denial Syndrome reaches epidemic proportions"
It seems to me that we have lost the ability to discern "benefit of the doubt" from "to err on the side of caution."
The cause is "politically correct" behavior, which (if you really think about it) often prevents the statement and publication of the truth.
I have no objection to hoping for the best; however, there comes a time when "denial" is contradictory to our well-being...
The cause is "politically correct" behavior, which (if you really think about it) often prevents the statement and publication of the truth.
I have no objection to hoping for the best; however, there comes a time when "denial" is contradictory to our well-being...
Melanie Phillips writes on the Spectator UK website:
"While the vast majority of its Muslim citizens appeared to be people who really had come to the US to get a slice of the good life and had signed up to American values, there was a growing element amongst US Muslims which was becoming steadily radicalised. Worse still, the FBI and other counter-terrorism agencies had been influenced by their appeasement-minded British cousins in the security world peddling their wholly false analysis of Islamic terrorism as having nothing to do with religion, encouraging US officials similarly to downplay or passively allow the rise of US radicalisation."