CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

Also in the opinion of THE NEW YORK TIMES.... Geez, don't get so defensive! Are you Williams' mother, or what??

Unfortunately, Wendy Williams is so biased in favor of Cape Wind that it's hard to take anything she says seriously. Even the New York Times in reviewing her book and said the book lost credibility by it's blatant pro-Cape Wind stance and lack of fair consideration.

Now we're going in circles. Try Googling JUST "Islam Europe," if that's your approach. Far less threatening, isn't it? And that IS the point, isn't it? That the radicals are the problem, so why should every single Moslem suffer or be suspect? Because that would be bigotry.

You know what? I say tomato and you say ... toss them all out of the country.

You're entitled to your views, and I'm entitled to mine. Bush won the last election with your views. But let's call a spade a spade. It's nothing less than bigotry. Fearing radicals of any kind isn't a bad idea; fearing an entire GROUP because of its radicals is an emotional response and maybe even a human response but it is NOT a rational one.
This ends my 2 cents. Tomato/tomahto, we're stuck.

You said it yourself -- extremist. Which is NOT the vast majority of Moslems.

So -- taking your point to the next step, I guess you are OK with racial profiling in airports? How about on Route 28...?

We can call my comments an analogy. Clearly, they were tongue-in-cheek meant to show the absurdity of your arguments. That you can't see your own racism is shocking -- or is this the Hollywood form of liberalism -- where you support Obama but it's okay to always make Arabs the bad guys?

You're right -- NO ONE should look aside at racism, or terrorism. But your method argues that I should hold ALL African-American men responsible for gangs, inner city violence, the high incidence of unwed black women raising children without fathers ... In fact, I'll start right now, by writing the Sox's David Ortiz to start placing the blame. It is, you argue, his responsibility to keep other black men in place. I'll tell him in this country (or in Yarmouth) it's not enough to be decent, hard-working, a good family man and a great ball player. Black men scare me, and I stare at each one suspiciously -- and he'd better do something about it or I'll know he's a viable threat to me.

Is this your point? ;)

'Nuff said. Thank you for raising an interesting issue.

Peter:
"You would do well to read some of the current scholarsghip available on fundamentalist Islam. You might also read and contrast the Koran with the Cheria (the Muslim code of laws that rules Islamic nation states)." You mean like my Masters from Georgetown? ;)
Your call to all Moslems just isn't fair. Do you think they LIKE getting a bum rap, having extra scrutiny at airports -- or by Cape Cod blogs? By being suspects by virtue of their religion -- one of the world's largest, I might add? I'll repeat MY analogy. It would be as unfair as calling upon all Catholics to stop attacks on abortion clinics. They simply aren't responsible and it's not like there's a secret meeting place or special hotline to get the message across.
We're ALL frustrated by the malignancy of terrorists, trust me. But it's unfair to suspect or lump all Moslems together. We erode our own identity as Americans as soon as we qualify another people as lessor, or assign them blanket blame. Do you cross the street in fear every time you see a African-American man coming?

The enemy is a group of so-called fundamentalists that bastardize their religion because they're nuts and sadists. It takes a special brand of crazy to take glee from the destruction of the towers and the deaths of thousands of innocents (just like, as a compasionate person, I mourn the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens following our invasion) -- but these are not the acts of the millions of decent, law-abiding Moslems that are part of the fabric of this country, and to say otherwise is a witch hunt. I'm just shocked at the small-mindedness on exhibit here. And the funniest part is that in your fear and prejudice you could honestly see Cape Cod as an ideal target for a terrorist's mission statement: "Yeah, let's take out Seafood Sam's - that'll teach the imperialists and send a message to the world!" The fear hiding behind that kind of bloated self-importance is not even close to rational.

This frightened, narrow-minded prejudice is just wrong. Maybe the "good" Moslems are living their lives the way we wish the fundamentalists were. It's wrong to make them responsible for what is, realistically, a small radical number. Just like moderate Christians are not and cannot be responsible for the far right that chooses to firebomb abortion clinics, you can't throw this responsibility on the majority of fine, law-abiding people because they're under the same too-broad umbrella. It shocks me to find this kind of narrow-minded fear-mongering in the heart of the most liberal state in the nation.