Islamophobia? Absolutely!

Not surprisingly the media and all of the pundits are missing the critical element in this whole Qur'an burning thing by the pastor in Florida. What most people don't know is what justification this pastor has. Why would anyone want to burn a holy book?

The justification he has is exactly the same justification Muslims around the world use when they burn Christian Bibles. Their fundamentalism prohibits them from allowing another view of religion. Their way is the only way, and any other view is heresy and is not tolerated.

Now you know that may be the justification, and it doesn't make it right, but there's also a lot of human emotion clouding the judgment of those doing the burning. My guess is Pastor Jones might also believe this is a pretty good PR device for his church given the visceral reaction of a majority of Americans to the proposed Mosque site in lower Manhattan.

All of that belies the real issue here: that America is now a country that operates out of fear of Muslims. The Mosque people want to call us Islamophobic. Damn right we are! Because every time any little thing happens like this some crazy radical Muslim straps a bomb onto their teenage daughter and blows up a bus full of people. These people are f*cking crazy! Meanwhile, they are allowed to burn Bibles and American flags and our Presidents in effigy and chant, "Death to the Great Satan!" and elect leaders who openly do the same on the world stage, and we're just supposed to passively sit by and hope to God they don't ever get the Bomb because we all know what will happen next. Of course they are not afraid of retaliation because Bama has already said nukes are off the table as long as he's in charge.

That's pussy-diplomacy, courtesy of Bama and Hillary, where the USA is always wrong regardless of what atrocities other societies commit. President Bush was absolutely right. The Bush Doctrine scared the crap out of the Muslim world, but then Rumsfeld and the Free Press combined to make a mockery out of what could have been a resounding victory.

So yes, burning Qur'an is stupid, or as Governor Palin put it, "Unnecessarily provocative," but we shouldn't allow ourselves as a free society to be ruled by fear.