More proof liberalism is cowardly.

Lib Pols and Media Are Just Plain Cowards

By Alicia Colon 

Published Jan. 9, 2015

Anyone with a brain in their head knows that the killers who attacked the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo in Paris were Muslims. Whether they were fanatics or not, the killers believe they are Muslim when they commit acts of violence while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' to avenge slights against their prophet Mohammed. Cowardly politicians, however, and the craven media refuse to call a spade a spade and consequently encourage these acts of savagery against civilization.
Columnist Ben Shapiro wrote recently and I agree:
"The true rationale for the attack is obvious: for years, Western politicians and media have cowered in the face of Islamic assaults on the exercise of free speech. The hallmark of Western civilization is freedom of the speech and of the press. The threats against, attacks on, and killings of journalists and satirists who attack Islam, combined with the despicable multicultural cowardice of the West, have destroyed freedom of speech and of the press."
Howard Dean, former Democrat Governor of Vermont and candidate for president, was on MSNBC and said, "I stopped calling these people Muslim terrorists. They're about as Muslim as I am. I mean, they have no respect for anybody else's life, that's not what the Koran says."
I strongly suggest that Gov. Dean do some further research as to what the Koran says and doesn't say. There are over a hundred verses in the Koran exhorting the killing of non-believers. This, however, is only supposed to be allowed in a war. Well, guess what? The Islamist jihadists are at war with the Western World to establish a caliphate so they feel their actions are justified by the Koran and I don't think the imams in the mosques are discouraging this conclusion.
Dean and other cowardly Democrat politicians are taking their cues from President Obama who back in 2012, told the UN, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam." Former MSNBC correspondent Lawrence O'Donnell when asked by Hugh Hewitt if he would criticize Mohammed the way he spoke of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism. He answered candidly, "I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I'm afraid for my life if I do." He then went on to say that Mormons were the nicest people in the world. "They'll never take a shot at me. Those other people, I'm not going to say a word about them." An honest coward.


An internal memo at CNN reads: ´We are not at this time showing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons´. Of course not, because they are afraid. They are cowards.
In 2005, after the brave newspaper I wrote for, The New York Sun published a picture of the Danish cartoon that incited beheadings and riots, the NYPD set up security in front of our office on Chambers Street. Only two newspapers in the country dared to do so and I was proud to be a columnist there. After I wrote a column objecting to an Arab language public school, I received hate mail on the order of what Martin Bashir was fired from MSNBC for wishing on Sarah Palin. Mayor Bloomberg did not see the outright disrespect this meant to the city still reeling from 9/11 nor did he think it was an outrage to erect a mosque thisclose to Ground Zero. Another coward except when attacking smokers.
Did you know that since 9/11/2001, the most horrific terrorist attack on civilians in our history, the number of mosques in the US has grown by 75%? Before then had you ever heard the term 'Islamaphobia'? I live in NYC and in a borough that was hard hit by the loss of life in the World Trade Center. Staten Island has a large Muslim population, and immediately after the attack, I would not have been surprised if there had been reprisals against these residents. But aside from dirty looks and a few harsh words from passersby, most were spared deadly harm. There were incidents of students being attacked by schoolmates but considering the traumatic state of the city it was incredible that these never resulted in fatalities.
Once it was clear that we were not a vengeful sort, the Muslim community felt emboldened to expand its influence and once it was noted that politicians and the media would bend over backward so as not to offend, the die was cast. It became routine for Muslims to flaunt their newfound power by laying their prayer rugs wherever they choose. My husband worked as a bell captain at a major midtown hotel but it wasn't until after 9/11 that he had he stop Muslims from setting up prayer rugs at the top of escalators or in areas that impeded foot traffic of guests. Needless to say, he met a lot of resistance and hostility for daring to interrupt the devout from praying wherever they chose.
Meanwhile, public schools around the country are celebrating Be a Muslim Day with children dressing up in Arab dress. Universities across the nation are installing footbaths for the Muslim ritual washing of their feet. Michigan is a hotbed of radical jihadism which is being ignored at the moment as even our FBI is being told to be more sensitive to Muslims. We have not yet, however, reached the level of Islamization as Paris and other no-go areas in France where Sharia law is in place and French non-Muslims are not allowed.
France may be lost but my concern is that we're not far behind as long as we have politicians and a craven media that are too timid to face the fact that we are at war with Islamists who want to kill us. The moderate Muslims are as irrelevant as those German citizens who were not Nazis in WWII. They are not in charge.
An Egyptian friend of ours was as livid as we were after 9/11 but after condemning the hijackers in the next breath he said, 'Maybe if the US wouldn't side with Israel….." Always, it is this virulent hatred of Israel that has been ingrained in the Muslim world.
Ironically it is the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, who is proving to be the most courageous of world leaders. Addressing a conference of religious clerics, he spoke passionately about the need for change: It's inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma[Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible...I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move… because this umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands. " 
Dear Lord, keep this man safe.