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. 😉

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.

Silence, Kuffār!

On Tuesday, January 13 2015, when questioned about both Obama’s refusal to attend the Anti-Jihad Unity March in Paris and the boy continued and unflagging support for Islam, often at the cost of American journalistic freedom, the Regime’s mouthpiece defended such actions.

The President will not now be shy about expressing a view or taking the steps that are necessary to try to advocate for the safety and security of our men and women in uniform” whenever journalists’ work may provoke jihadist attacks.

There was a genuine concern that the publication of some of those materials could put Americans abroad at risk, including American soldiers at risk.

I will say that there have been occasions where the administration will make clear our point of view on some of those assessments based on the need to protect the American people and to protect our men and women in uniform.

I wouldn’t rule out making those kinds of expressions again.

— White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest

It says a lot about the POTUS’ loyalties and general outlook when, immediately in the wake of the brutal jihadist massacre of the staff of a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, he and his regime “double down” on pressuring the American MSM to not offend the Muslims by publishing anti-jihad articles.

If France Were Jewish…

Face facts; If France were a Jewish nation, Liberals and Progressives would be saying that the Muslims’ massacre of the Charlie Hebdo staff, combined with the recent Muslim riots and looting, shows that France must be divided into two states – one Muslim, one otherwise.