The new privileged class.
- Virgil Lassiter
- May 15, 2019
- 3 min read
The Johnny come lately Muslims, are claiming something all of the predecessor immigrants have never; special treatment, broad accommodations, changes of language and rhetoric that is permissible in the public discourse, workplace rules, etc. Never before has any group of immigrants been treated to such an overwhelming capitulation of the norm.
Is there even a scintilla of the same deference to the Christians and Jews that built this country? Can prayers be said in schools? NO. Can Muslims have set aside times to do their multiple prayer times? Yes. Are uniform allowances being made for hijabs in police departments, the military and other places that have dress codes and specific rules about attire? Yes. Are there phrases and words that are now disallowed from the government and journalistic style guides? Yes.
You have to ask yourself why?
I believe that the over zealous progressive left in much the same way as they proclaim the moral high ground in terms of the crisis at our southern border, that they are only protecting a victim class. Hogwash. The southern border aside, the trend is to place our citizenship to the back of the bus. All things immigrant, legal or otherwise, are premiere and top causes for the left.
By bending over backwards they are throwing history, culture, tradition and yes, even long held values, under the bus for the newest lot of immigrants. Even the illegal Mexican aliens were not given the same treatment in such short order.
They refuse to believe that these waves of immigrants, namely Muslims, are different from all the other many diverse ethnic groups who have arrived in our country.
Fourteen hundred years of history tell us that Islam is as much political as it is a religious organization. Supporters claim that Islam is a peaceful religion, when history paints a different picture. From the times of the Ottoman Empire and through the centuries Muslims sought expansion, domination and conversion of huge swaths of territories. The Barbary Coast Pirates were Muslim marauders. Al-Qaida , Isis, Hamas, The Muslim Brotherhood are focused on continuing to build a caliphate from the conquered. The means to their goal is through infiltration, transformation and ideological dishonesty and barring that working violence is an accepted tool.
Ideology can be a two edged sword. The naïve left in America want to create an America that the founders never dreamed of. The Islamists through their strident religious claims for autocracy of any civil constraints pressures the liberal left to acquiesce to their victim status. It is being seen in the halls of our very own Congress, public schools and the streets of many cities. Anti-Semitic rhetoric is tolerated, excused and even defended. The Congressional leadership on the Democratic side has lost control and are fearful to take any action or even speak out against the Muslim representatives who continue to spew open and veiled commentary that goes directly against the American support of Israel.
Fast forward 3 to 5 years, if nothing is done, Congress will be overrun by many similar representatives voted into office from the districts that house the Islamist core. It is no accident that Muslims do not assimilate into our culture. They are in complete disagreement with the way Americans lead there lives. They object to female rights, to our diets, to our chosen religions. They have nothing but intolerance, ridicule and disrespect for anyone other than Muslims.
Unless the naïve, progressive left ever get a true statesman in their party to back off the acquiescence or the elitist, academic and very high up apartment dwellers have a change of heart and recognize what is going on right under their noses hope will be lost.