The New York Times doesn't get it

So The New York Times finally realized that the world is full of nasty people, nine of whom murdered a Dutch filmmaker for making a film spotlighting Muslim maltreatment of women. And it's worth noting that he was not the first man to die on a Dutch street for offending Muslims. (Hat tip: The Power Line.)

Hey, you at The New York Times, don't you get it yet? You prattle on about "multicultural societies" and cite, as the greatest danger, the idea that Mr. van Gogh's murder might provoke an anti-Muslim backlash. Hey, pal, I've got a bigger threat for you: that Muslims elsewhere in Holland and all over Europe will draw the moral from van Gogh's "execution" and cut off a few more heads. You should read the Koran before you are so quick to flap your gums. Surah 9:5 clearly states: "Then when the sacred months have passed, fight and slay the infidels wheresoever ye find them; seize them, besiege them, ambush them with every stratagem."

Wake up, America. Wake up, world. It is high time--and way past time--that the United States Senate empanel a Select Committee on Religious Ideals and their Consequences, and charge it with a mission to recommend any measures, including Constitutional amendments, that are necessary to protect our republic against a political movement in religious dress (for that is all that Islam is) that is dedicated to destroying not only our republic but also every other form of representative government in the world.

The Dutch, and indeed all Europeans, have an even worse problem: they believe in nothing, and don't know how to deal with someone who believes so strongly in something that he will kill for it. We at least have enough people left in this country who believe in the One True God. Romans 13 tells us that a government exists to protect people from wrongdoers. Unless we care to see similar religious murders in this country, we have to act--now!

Terrorism is, of course, nothing new. The MIddle East has been a hotbed of terrorism even before Muhammad was born, and was a problem even for the Roman Empire and for every officer of it who tried to govern any part of the Middle East, beginning with Pompey. (Witness the senior tribune Lucius Claudius, commander of the garrison of Jerusalem, whose first question to Saint Paul was along the lines of, "Say, aren't you that Egyptian who raised a riot and led four thousand terrorists out into the desert?") [Acts 21:38] But what is new is the spectacle of those who are supposed to be journalists who, while not exactly apologizing for murderers, are definitely refusing even to investigate the clear motive for murder--obviously because they are totally unwilling to face the implications.