Don't hold your breathe for that outrage over Molly. Did you forget that it's more important to appease the terrorists than to uphold our Constitutional rights? You have to be nicey nice to them or their feelings might get hurt and when their feelings get hurt, something somewhere goes BOOM.

I find it surreal that the president and the sec of defense found it necessary to call a pastor of two dozen, then send in the FBI to harass him into not burning a Koran (a act I personally find silly BTW) but nary a word when one of our citizens is threatened to the point of having to give up their identity. Rather than protecting her freedom of speech our government washes their hands of it and tells her to go int hiding. Sick on so many levels.

Well, at least the courts got it right with this asshole:

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Life-in-prison-for-Times-Square-bomber-688243.php

From the article: "No release is permitted," Senior U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum sternly ordered. "You repeatedly expressed a total lack of remorse and a desire to repeat the crime."

"I welcome that," Shahzad remarked defiantly. "I am happy with the deal God has given me."

He then angrily warned those in the courtroom to "brace yourself because the war with Muslims has just begun ... Consider me the first droplet of the blood that will follow ... We will defeat you with terrorism."

The judge imposed the maximum allowable sentences on all of the 10 terrorism charges Shahzad pleaded guilty to during his June 21 arraignment. This includes six life sentences, two 20-year terms and two 10-year terms, all of which will run concurrently.

"This is all but one life," said Shahzad, most recently of the 200 block of Sheridan Street, Bridgeport, and previously of 119 Long Hill Ave., Shelton. He said if he were given "a thousand lives I would sacrifice them in the name of Allah."

It is expected that Shahzad will be transferred to the supermax prison in Florence, Colo., where several other convicted terrorists, including Richard Reid, the shoe bomber; Ramzi Yousef, who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and Zacarias Moussaoui, a member of the group that masterminded the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, are housed.

Swell, ain't it? And in the meanwhile, this poor woman is fearing for her life, the imam in New York is getting POLICE protection, of all things, and Terry Jones is being fined after cancelling the Koran-burning.

Wonderful. Just wonderful.

/sarcasm

What will they do when Terry Jones refuses to pay for something he didn't ask for in the first place?

It is odd that it hasn't been talked about much.

Does anyone know if there is a fund for her protection?

I have a post and discussion about the Molly Norris matter, and the general trend of surrender to radical Islamist intimidation, here.

The level of concern shown about intimidation such as that directed at Norris seems to be very low, not only on the part of this Administration and its congressional supporters, but also on the part of the various “progressive” and “human rights” groups who are normally so quick to raise issues about all kinds of things.

Excellent point by david foster at the link.

Ahhh! Islam the religeon of peace

I think the lack of news is not some sort of kowtowing surrender to the terrorists, it's just that the news cycle for this item is over.

Also at Foster's link, interesting mention of Churchill's concern about British PC in the 1930s, as regarded Nazi Germany and their documented atrocities, even at the time.

Makes me wonder whether, just as 70 years ago, it'll take a world war, with the attendant millions of deaths and unimaginable devastation, to bring Islamists and their apologists to heel, and to make us safe from their murderous designs. The longer we don't deal with them on the front end, the more likely it'll take something extreme like that when the time comes.

This is a whole 'nother discussion, but I doubt our present society's ability to successfully fight and win such a war, should it come to that.

I'm interesting in knowing if anyone did actually post pictures on Facebook as Molly Norris suggested. I'm not clear what she said. No one seems to want to quote her.

Was she threatened for the suggestion or for actually putting up a picture of Mohammed?

I'm going to see if I can find an answer to this question. I think I might put together my own sketch while I'm at it.

The LA Times did publish an op ed by Ayaan Hirsi Ali on this recently.

Her book "Infidel" is both compelling and appalling.

I've just about concluded that journalists are basically hedonists. The one and only thing they care about in life is to party like it's 1999. Someone being threatened by Islamic extremists? What a buzz kill! Where's the cocktail party tonight?

A journalist friend of mine here in Canada wrote a blog about this too.

In my workplace there is definitely a tendency for people to bend over backwards to be nice to Muslims. I've really noticed it over the last few years.

It's fear, pure and simple. Hard to defend in a situation like this, but it IS fear.

The thing is, I lived in a Muslim country for two years, and I experienced no difficulty at all. I felt very safe and was touched by how friendly and curious many Muslims were about me.

I know this is a cliche, but it is the extreme segment of the Muslim population that seems to be the problem. I remember being very impressed by a young Toronto imam who was actually responsible for turning over 18 members of a terrorist cell there. His explanation of why he did it, televised for a half hour on a CBC news program, was reassuring. But then something like this--the Norris situation--happens and I don't know what to think.

The problem is not whether its a minority of the Muslim population or a majority. There are a group of people agitating and intending to cause the deaths of those who do not agree with them. All they have to do within their own religion is intimidate those who don't agree with them into shutting up and lure enough of those who are fence sitters (within their religion) to come to their side.

One way of doing this is to agitate the more easily riled of the non-Muslim communities and get them to react in inflammatory ways. Then they can try to claim persecution.

That doesn't mean I think we should take this lying down, we just need to make sure that our reactions are fair, reasonable and firm. That being said I am young enough and inexperienced enough to know that I don't have the answer as to what fair and just reaction is. Ideas? Sure. But not a definitive solution.

Doesn't seem like anyone has a definitive solution, Katebo.

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