Every American Needs to Read Books to Understand Islam - PJ Media

How can I get organized to read and understand all these books? Here are 6 new rules added to the revised first four in version 1.23 of the Radical Reading Regimen.

On April 10 I published the next step in my developing self-improvement program, an application of Charlie Martin?s 13 Weeks method to my problem of better organizing my research. I looked forward to diving back into a deep reading routine filled with novels and culture while blogging my results here at PJ Lifestyle so all the wiser, more enlightened souls who make it their business to fill the comments section with their manifestoes could tell me what an idiot I was for not seeing the world exactly the way they did.

But then on April 15 ? Patriot?s Day ? bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, resulting in 3 deaths and 264 injuries. The real world had intruded on the Wonderland of Books I?d constructed for myself. As Charlie has pointed out from time to time in his 13 Weeks series, life has a way of throwing off our plans.

For days the country sat in nervous panic as police searched for the killers. Partisans of every persuasion speculated about the motives of the evil monsters who would load pressure cooker bombs with shrapnel to mutilate the bodies of innocent human beings they had never met. David Sirota of Salon longed for the murderous act to serve as fodder for his goal of demonizing his political opponents. I liked the way PJ columnist Roger Kimball put it on on the morning of April 18:

One of the curious, but also most predictable, responses to the Boston Marathon bombings from the Left has been the fervent expression ? amounting nearly to a prayer ? that the perpetrator or perpetrators of this act of mass murder be ?homegrown,? preferably white, male, Christian, and conservative.

Why? Why does the Left prefer to have its terrorism served up by Timothy McVeigh rather than?Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad? It?s an interesting question.?That the Left exhibits this prejudice is, like Falstaff?s dishonesty, ?gross as a mountain, open, palpable.?

David Sirota, writing at Salon, gives almost comic expression to the genre in an essay with the really special title ?Let?s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.??Why does Mr. Sirota wish that the Boston murderer of 8-year-old boys be a white American? Because a spectral quality called ?white male privilege? operates insidiously behind the scenes. If Timmy McVeigh blows up a government building, says Mr. Sirota, only he is blamed. If Mohammed does it, Muslims are likely to be ?collectively slandered and/or targeted with surveillance or profiling (or worse).?

What do you think of that argument? I think it?s hooey.

But how can intellectual and cultural warriors do battle with hooey level arguments? PJ Media?s Legal Editor, J. Christian Adams, offered advice on Monday to the Benghazi whistleblowers that is just as applicable to every American striving to fight for these issues in their own way:

I know a thing or two about being a whistleblower. I appeared on the?Huckabee?show this weekend (see video below) and explained how simply telling the truth is the way to shield yourself from the sinister deceptions from places like the Huffington Post and the George Soros-funded Media Matters. They can try to smear you, but the truth of your testimony will rise above their smears.

All we can do is present the Truth about the nature of the enemy. If that doesn?t work, then what else is left?

Source: http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/05/08/every-american-needs-to-read-books-to-understand-islam/

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