March 29, 2006

Muslims and PC

By J.R. Dunn
The major problem facing American Muslims today is not active prejudice or government harassment; it's political correctness. PC has been the governing force in relations with the American Muslim umma since 9/11, if not before. It is the sole reason why dubious and litigious groups like The Council on American—Islamic Relations CAIR), have become the chief representatives of the Muslim community, why 'racial profiling', the sole rational method of preventing terrorist infiltration, has been effectively banned (Arabs and Persians being Caucasian, it would have to be 'ethnic profiling', but... ooh never mind), why any critical or even debatable reference to Muslims or Islam in general has been carefully excised from public discourse — at least as far as the antique media are concerned. So it's no surprise PC played a major role in the three latest collisions between Muslims and American society at large. Umar Abdul—Jalil is the prison chaplain who made a series of...(Read Full Article)