Reflections From a Murky Pond

Sometimes silence is golden; Duke University’s decision to retract permission for the Muslims, who make up a little less than 5% of Duke’s 15,000 students, use of the university’s Methodist chapel’s bell-tower to broadcast and amplify their adhān – call to prayer – is one of those times when silence is indeed golden.

Duke University’s Methodist Chapel

A sane person would think that Duke University’s long-standing tolerance of allowing Muslims to use rooms inside their Christian chapel for prayer services would be enough pluralism, especially since Duke is and has always been a private, Methodist University. This is, of course in these degenerate times, not the case. Liberals and Progressives have shown their allegiance and rally with the ever-outraged Muslims to protest not being allowed to broadcast their adhān far and wide.

It’s ironic – or, it would be if these Leftists didn’t do this with such regularity – that these same Liberals and Progressives who are claiming this is religious bigotry are the ones who like to rant, rail, protest, and wage lawfare against any public or pseudo-public displays of the Christians’ faith. Even more so, is the absence of any protests by the Atheists such as the Freedom From Religion Foundation against the Muslims’ adhān being broadcast from church’s bell-tower.

This is hypocrisy at it’s “finest” since such a broadcast would inflict portions of Islam on far more people and in a far, far, far more intrusive and unavoidable manner than just about anything Christianity or other faiths have ever sought to do in the modern age.

As someone who lived and worked in MENA for years, I can and do tell you that nothing says the you’re in the Caliphate like hearing the adhān being screeched and wailed.

Yes, sometimes silence is golden and silencing the adhān is worth a imam’s weight in gold. Silencing those inside America’s borders who side with Muslims in this is, or would be, priceless. 😉

Tread If You Dare

There comes a point when you just have to accept things and let personal responsibility rule the day. Past certain tipping points it’s no longer useful to keep saying, “Don’t Tread On Me!” You just have to accept that some people won’t heed such warning and that you and yours must be the consequence the of their action.

Do I think we’re at that point? No, not in an overall sense. We’re likely at or past it in certain more localized contexts though, and it’s also possible – not likely, but possible – that a few well-placed object lessons on the consequences a “misstep” will engender might save lives in the long run.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. 😉

Ice Princess
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It seem that not all ice princesses are frigid, nor are they all made of sharp angles and planes. Some seem to be both warm and delightfully soft. 😉

Various angry, jabbering Islamists, especially those in America who have suborned our laws for their own agenda, repeatedly claim that “Islamaphobes” have given Islam and Muslim a bad name and harmed the cult’s image in the Civilized Word.

If The Truth Harms Your Image You Deserve To Be Harmed

It’d be more funny if it weren’t for the Muslims’ propensity for paper terrorism and lawfare against Americans since, as far as I can tell, the only thing harming Islam’s image and giving its adherents a bad name is the Muslims themselves.

It’s All Israel’s Fault

I really don’t know why Obama is so worried about the MSM occasionally publishes some article or airing some peace that might just possibly be construed by some as being anti-jihad. It’s not as if that same MSM doesn’t, whenever the Muslims commit another atrocity, always dutifully go to Jimmy Carter so that the senile anti-Semite can blame Israel.