By Andrew L. Jaffee

There goes the Washington Post again, wringing its hands over whether Islamic radicals are being treated fairly. During the Danish cartoon controversy, the Post called Islamist hooliganism “a rare moment of empowerment among Muslims who have felt besieged,” and opined, “On one side is a defense of freedom of expression, on the other an unforgivable insult to a sacred figure.” Here’s the Post today, worrying about the prosecution of terrorists in our great nation’s capital:

Muslims in the Washington area, even those unconnected to the defendants, wonder and worry about the implications of these cases for their community. Some feel that the prosecutions could increase the stigma Muslims have faced since Sept. 11. And many Muslims say the aggressive law enforcement has been far out of proportion to the offenses, which harmed no one.

Hmmm… And why should we not be on guard against Islamo-fascists in our own country?

Poor, besieged Muslims. In truth, it is the civilized world which is now besieged — besieged by an angry hoard of intolerant Muslims.

Islamists massacred 344 civilians — half of them children — in Beslan, North Ossetia. They killed 174 in Mumbai, India; murdered 50+ in Turkey; and have killed tens of thousands in Indonesia, Algeria, and Nigeria. Al-Qaeda slaughtered 88 innocent Egyptians last July 23.

1,095 innocent Israelis have been killed by Palestinian terrorists since September 2000. Thirty-thousand Iraqis, mostly Muslim, have been slaughtered by Islamist terrorists since the country’s liberation.

9/11 (3000 dead). Madrid (200 dead). London (50 dead). Bali (200 dead). Amman (57 dead). Three-hundred trampled to death in this year?s Hajj; 1,426 killed in the 1990 Hajj; 251 in 2004; etc. Sudanese Muslims have slaughtered 180,000 black Africans. Kuwaitis ethnically cleansed 400,000 Palestinians in 1991.

In countries like Iran, there is no figuring things out through consensus. There is the (Orwellian) Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He has ultimate control over all decisions. His thugs banned Western music in December (no more “George Michael’s ‘Careless Whisper,’ Eric Clapton’s ‘Rush’ and the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California…’” and “…tunes by saxophonist Kenny G.”). Iran’s theocracy hung two boys for being gay last July. Last month, the mullahs banned access to the BBC’s website. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged that Israel be “wiped off the map,” has denied that the Holocaust ever occurred, called for Israel’s Jews to be moved to Europe (ethnically cleansed), and has planned a conference to “prove” that Hitler’s extermination of Jews (and gypsies and gays) was a “myth.”

Anyone see a pattern here?

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Related: United States, Islam, War Against Islamo-fascism, Political Correctness, Media/Blogsphere

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