(Video) Bill Whittle: Tolerance or appeasement?
Bill Whittle of Pajamas Media has long been a sharp, uncompromising, and eloquent advocate for the defense of America and the West against both the armed and the cultural jihad. His series at PJTV, Afterburner, is worth the price of subscription just for itself. In this latest episode, he places our reaction to the proposed Ground Zero mosque in the context of earlier Western failures to resist totalitarianism and the heavy price paid for that failure:
While I don’t agree with him wholly (although our differences are de minimis), and while one can perhaps fairly accuse him of painting with too broad a brush, what Bill has to say is important and needs to be heard. I’ve often remarked myself that our fecklessness in the face of an aggressive Iran, the biggest sponsor of jihadist terror in the world, shows a civilizational lack of confidence and a willingness to appease all too reminiscent of the 1930s.
And we all know how that ended.
Back to the mosque at Ground Zero, regardless of the intentions of the builders (and those are suspect, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt for the sake of argument), there is no doubt that its construction in that place will be seen in the Islamic world as a sign of Islamic supremacy and victory. For that alone, it must be exposed and opposed.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets)