A Silence Broken, Because It is Time To Speak About Willful Ignorance

OS took a break a few weeks ago, concluding that he had tired of tossing words onto the foam, and sensing so little resulting from them. He had run out of things to say, really. Better, perhaps, to focus on matters closer to home, and calm down a bit. 

A week ago, when the first images of the terrorist attack in Boston appeared, OS tuned into ABC, only to hear the 'journalist' on duty opine that this surely must be the work of right-wing militia crazy-types, since after all it was near the date Adolf Hitler's burthday, and the Oklahoma City bombing, and after all the real threat to the nation are all those crazy people who oppose the Progressive agenda, etc etc etc...

OS heard the news of the two bombs placed some 100 yards apart, and blurted out: It's Madrid all over again, it's an Al Qaeda technique, pure and simple.

Then we were treated to The Manhunt. The identities of the two young monsters planted amongst us, their life stories, their images, their brutality. OS wondered how long it would take for the apologists for Islam to begin singing their tune about these exemplary young men, what was it about life in America that just so alienated that they felt compelled to express themselves in this manner...

It did not take long...and it will continue, have no doubt.

Mark Steyn's pithy essay, 'Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chechens' addresses it all.

These mooks were known to the FBI, to INS, to the vast array of drones who spend our money, disrupt our travel, monitor our internet usage, purchase enough guns and ammo to outfit a separate army, and simultaneously leave our borders open to a flood of illegal immigrants and bless the immigration of persons from the world's most dangerous regions to live amongst us. Any suggestion that this is not safe or sane is met with cries of 'Racism'!! 'Bigotry'!!, and the script is read that the real danger to the country are middle-class folks who work their tails off and refuse to vote for Obama.

This approach helped get those innocent people killed last Monday, to the murder of that young campus policeman, to firefights on the streets of Boston, to Heaven-only-knows how much cash burned to track them down, and the shutdown of one of our biggest cities.

So, it's time to say it: OS thinks there is something seriously twisted about Islam as it is practiced in the 21st century.

The local mosque is not the same as the local Methodist chapel.

The local imam is not the same sort of guy as the local Presbyterian minister. He is a different cat altogether, and he likely does not wish us well.

We have the right to defend ourselves. And we expect those we pay to defend us to concentrate their efforts upon the real and obvious threats, like radicalized Chechens, not disgruntled Baptists.

The time for willful ignorance is over. Despite what Massah Obama sez, Al-Qaeda is not on the run.
They may have just been biding their time, waiting for this convenient fool to be re-elected. Things turned awfully quiet after the Benghazi debacle, which, had it been properly reported, might have spelled the end of the Obama presidency.

So, do we take the law into our own hands, burn down mosques, harass the Muslims among us?
Absolutely not. No, no, no, no, no. This is the road to anarchy, chaos, and random bloodletting. No.

But we do get to speak up, and elect people to office from county sheriff on up who will not engage in willful ignorance. And we do get to finally find our voice, and call out the apologists and their allies in our government, and name for what they are: Enablers of the bombers who would blow up small children at public events in the name of a false and murderous religion.

The Moscow Subway Mass Murders: One Question For Us Here In The US and UK To Ponder

The supply of ink, words and emotional outrage about this sort of thing ran out a long time ago.

The most horrifying aspect is that we have come to expect this, or at least are no longer surprised by it.

"It was a terrorist act carried out by the female suicide bombers," said Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, in reference to the first and most lethal explosion, citing the Federal Security Service. "They were specifically timed -- for ... the train was nearing the station -- to make the most damage."

So, to The Question: What are the odds, once the Russian security services run the perpetrators to ground, that they will be read their Miranda rights, housed safely with Halal meals and Muslim chaplains, provided lawyers and tried as civilians at the courthouse closest to the scene of the crime?

And, while we're at it...

What are the odds, also, that these murderers are traced back to Pakistan via Chechnya?