Palm Beach Post Editorial. Agree with me or you are a hater. Fear and loathing at the PBP.

Rick Christie, PBP Editor

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County GOP tone-deaf with anti-Islam invite 

   The only other detail left for Palm Beach County Republican Party leaders, as they seek a new venue for their bash-the-Muslims dinner, is to invite the Quran-burning pastor down from Gainesville to do the introductions. 

Dutch politician Geert Wilders, a prominent critic of Islam, and who was keynote speaker at the Muslim Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas, will be coming to Palm Beach County this summer.

According to an event listed on the Palm Beach County GOP website , he is scheduled to speak at the Republican Party's annual Lobsterfest fundraiser in Boca Raton.

The right-wing Dutch politician is on an al Qaeda hit list for his short film, "Fitna," which pairs disturbing images of terrorist acts with text from the Quran and recordings of incitements by extremist Islamic authorities, according to CNN.

Lobsterfest will be held August 15 at the Boca West Country Club.

Tickets are $125 per person.

A man who is on a Mahometan hit list for telling the truth about Mahometanism is described as a Muslim-basher while the Mahometans who have him on a list of men to murder is not mentioned.

   The Boca West Country Club, citing security concerns, has canceled the county GOP’s $125-a-plate August Lobsterfest dinner featuring right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders. 

Hmm, who could possibly present a security threat? Mormons, Methodists, Catholics...

   Wilders’ inflammatory claims, such as that “Islam and freedom are totally incompatible,” belie the thousands of Muslims who love freedom enough to serve in the U.S. armed forces. 

One hopes this is just a typical example of the ignorance of the western media and not a willful ignorance. The black man who wrote this editorial could cite a country that is subject to Sharia Law and illustrate the putative freedoms existing there, but, why do that when an easy non sequitur is more useful as a way of shamefully fearing to write the truth? 

   When he says “Islam has declared war on us, on our Judeo-Christian civilization,” he’s counting on a lack of familiarity with Islam, which reveres the prophets Abraham, Moses and Jesus, including his mother Mary, and in fact is rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition. 

Lord have mercy. Has he never heard of the Muslim Brotherhood who has done precisely that?He appears to be serious that this evil and violent religion is part of the western tradition.

   The obvious reality is that among the more than 1.6 billion people claiming to practice Islam, in societies around the world including Palm Beach County, violence is anathema except to the relatively minuscule murderous element who kill even Muslims as political strategy. 

Yes, Virginia, he sounds like Karen Hughes who worked for Dubya and was, similarly, ignorant of the truth about Mahometanism despite an ever-growing number of books and websites which document - with direct quotes from the Koran and the Sunnah - the malign nature and intent of Mahometanism.

   But count on Wilders to note that his criticisms of Islam have made him a target of violent extremists such as the two men shot and killed in an attack shortly after Wilders’ speech at a “Draw Muhammad” cartoon contest last week in Garland, Texas. 

   Wilders was invited there by virulently anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller, who likes to promote herself as a champion of free speech, but is simply hiding behind one of the great pillars of our democracy to promote hateful speech that incites violence. 

Yes, a man threatened and identified as one who has been targeted for death is likely to note that fact. 

He bravely insults a woman whose he knows would never threaten his safety and so we know our liberty is in safe hands with a man like the one who wrote this editorial. 

   Here in America we should, and do, protect her First Amendment right to do that, too. It’s in the name of free speech that the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups still rally today to promote their brand of hate. 

Hate, hate, hate. Was Dave Chapelle a professor at the crummy journalism schools these girls graduated from?

However, far from protecting free speech, this entire editorial is devoted to undermining it because this free speech is directed against the one religion the left will not criticise. Obviously, this is being done out of fear; the left knows the Mahometans will kill them and their family if they tell the truth about Mahometanism and so they - the left, the cultural marxists - keep hold of  their tongues, so they won't be cut-out. And who says terrorism isn't effective?

   It is shameful, however, to see the local Republican Party standing with anti-Muslim bigotry, especially given the violence already going on in our cities. So much for bridge-building. 

There is no bigotry and, in fact, a democracy took Mr Wilders to court for his putative hate speech and it acquitted him; well, so much for the man who wrote this and his putative love of democracy.

Trial schmial. Even a man who has been acquitted in court is considered guilty by the extremist marxists if he dares speak against the ever-changing speech codes of the cultural marxists.

   As an African-American, Michael Barnett, the county’s new party chairman, might be expected to be less tone-deaf to Wilders’ thinly disguised racism. 

Excellent, an appeal to black tribalism; if all blacks don't think like the black cultural marxists, then the one who doesn't is guilty of hate.

Love your democratic free speech values there...

Racism?

Well, why not; this inane piece was written by an extreme leftist and thought is not a necessary condition of employment for such a one.

   “I’ve heard him speak before,” Barnett said of Wilders, “and with everything in the world going on with regard to radical Islamic terrorism, I thought it would be good to hear his perspective.” 

   Actually, it would be good to hear from some of the innumerable local Muslims, and others elsewhere, who not only condemn violence, but who have suggestions for deterring the violent extremists who, they note, act in obvious contradiction of their faith. 

Hmm, quite. Who is that black man man to think differently than the black man who wrote this piece? Thought crimes must be punished publicly.

O, and the jihadists are those who most faithfully actualise the violent commands of Allah as recorded in the Koran and the jihadists are those who most faithfully imitate the putative perfect man, Mahomet, who was, as Serge Trifkovic memorably described him part David Koresh, part John Gotti,

   As much as some of us might like to hear those messages, however, it apparently isn’t what the county GOP wants to hear, much less promote. The Wilders invitation is good fodder for the political base. But purposefully inciting the extremists on the other side    — and putting people’s live at risk for political gain — is not what the First Amendment is about. Wilders, Geller and other professional haters want to provoke a fight between the forces of good and evil as they define them. 

But, that was not the purpose of the scheduled speech but that is the result but who expects an extremely fearful leftist not to get this entirely ass-backwards?

   Again, there is no question that images depicting the Prophet Muhammad or any other religious figure, no matter how offensive, qualify as free speech in this country. Those images are also no justification for murder — period. 

   But let’s not kid ourselves that the event in Texas was really about free speech. It was about hate. It was about intolerance. It was about divisiveness. 

See, Cultural Marxists not only know what is best for us, they know our secret motivations and they know those motives are always evil.

Cultural Marxism is an easy life for the intellectually indolent.

   Palm Beach County doesn’t need that. 

   For our Republican Party leaders to want to bring this type of vitriol to our neighborhood, much less advertise and charge to be a part of it, sends a painful message of exclusion rather than inclusion. 

Look, this poor editor has not the first clue he is stuck on stupid - he is a hypocrite who demands we exclude Mr. Wilders as a way to support inclusion...

   We’re better than that. 

No, you are not. You are riven with hatred for those who think differently than you and you have a despicable fear of Mahometans even though we outnumber them in great proportions.

   Aren’t we?