Boston Bizarre

I am livid about events this past week in Boston.  In fact, I am spitting mad.

Let me start with law enforcement. OK, OK, lots of praise out there for the law enforcement agencies that nailed the two SURPRISE Muslim terrorists who killed and maimed innocent people for no reason at all, except one -- and we will get to that one. Praise? Yes, I praise the FBI for their amazing forensic abilities. I have worked with the FBI on bombings before in Indonesia, South Asia, and Central America and they are outstanding at going through a bomb blast site, collecting evidence and making good use of it. If the full force of the FBI is unleashed on you, you will not get away. No other police or intel agency in the world can match the FBI on that score. I had no doubt that once the FBI got fully mobilized the Boston bombers would get nailed. The other law enforcement? I don't know. I lived three years in Boston and the cops there never impressed me as particularly smart, well-trained, and professional. Maybe, however, they were brilliant this time round. I withhold judgment.

The problem in Boston is Boston and the mentality that it so ably represents. This is perhaps the most tolerant, liberal, and accepting city in the world. It is a solidly Democrat voting bloc. The people, with the exception of the Chinese student, killed and maimed in the blast were almost certainly solid, tolerant, liberals who hate George Bush and swoon over Obama. Bomb blasts are what they got in return for their kindness, tolerance, and embracing of diversity.  I am also troubled by the sight of some one million-plus persons cowering like weak Eloi in their homes, businesses shut, transportation systems on ice, while ONE mad Muslim Morlock runs amok. Somehow I don't see that scenario playing out in, say, Dallas, or Tucson, or, well, you get the idea. What we saw in Boston with the Mad Muslim brothers gang was not exactly a replay of the reception accorded the James brothers gang in Northfield.

Next of course we have the media. OK, we all know they get things wrong: it is understood that there is confusion, the cops don't give out all the information, etc. But even simple things are still unclear. From where exactly are these two brothers? Not clear. How did they support themselves? Not clear. How did they get visas? Not clear. If a "foreign government" already had warned us about the older clown, and he had an arrest for domestic violence, how was he not deported? Why was he allowed to become a US citizen? Not clear. Did they arrive as asylum seekers? Not clear, especially since the father still lives in Russia and the mother, a shoplifter, seems to have disappeared and likely gone back. The younger clown either arrived a "year ago" or did his high school in the States. Which is it? Not clear. They had no friends or they had lots of them? Not clear. When did they become Mad Muslim Bombers? Who indoctrinated them? And on and on.

What we have is not only the standard confusion and expected media incompetence, what we have in addition is that everything gets run through an ideological, political correctness filter that limits inquiry and puts certain topics out of bounds.

Let's target the big elephant, the one reason people died and were maimed, Islam. When are we going to learn that we get nothing good by allowing thousands upon thousands of Muslim immigrants into the US, immigrants imbued with a political ideology that espouses hatred for us? We need to treat Islam today as we treated Communism and Nazism in the past, to wit, as a hostile ideology that advocates the overthrow of our government and destruction of our way of life. Period. All religions have their absurdities and contradictions and other foibles. Islam, however, at its very core is a belief system that preaches hatred for non-Muslims, disregard for their suffering, and demands that Islam be recognized, by force if needed, as the one and only faith. Islam is a deranged way of viewing the world. It detests intellectual inquiry; sees women as no better than cows; and advocates violence, yes, violence. It is not a religion of peace. You can be a good person or be a Nazi; you can be a good person or be a Communist; and, sad to say, you can be a good person or be a Muslim. It is a choice. I repeat, you cannot be both.

If Muslims object to this characterization then THEY must do something about it. Not just the perfunctory statements after these events to the effect that "Islam is about peace." No. The Muslim communities in London, Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, New York, Boston, Detroit, etc, must stand up and unequivocally denounce the preachers of hate, turn in those who practice it, and make clear that they have no place in those communities. The advocates of terror must be denounced, arrested, jailed, deported, shunned, etc. Until Muslims in the West do that, then we must treat them with suspicion and as potential enemies of the nation just as we did Communists and Nazis.