TheDC Analysis: A letter to Michael Moore

Dear Michael Moore,

After reading your open letter to Juan Williams published on The Daily Beast, I thought I would write one of my own to you. While I take you as a man who prefers pictures to prose, unfortunately I am not much of a drawer so words will have to suffice.

While criticizing Williams in your letter for the comments he made about Muslims on Fox News, you find an area of agreement with the former NPR analyst over the suggestion that political correctness is obscuring an important debate on why America is under attack by extremist Muslims, even if you don’t phrase it that way.

I’m glad you’re concerned about the terrorism threat, Michael, though I should note that this seems like a new found interest considering you once preposterously (though surely level-headedly) wrote “THERE…IS…NO…TERRORIST…THREAT!” Since we are reliving your greatest hits, I feel compelled to remind whatever voyeurs are reading my not-so-private letter to you of this brilliant piece of commentary you provided during the height of the Iraq War: “The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the Revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win.”

Let it not be said you do not take iconoclastic positions – even if they are supremely moronic.

So having stood up for those noble murderers of innocents and oppressors of women who sought to impose a cruel totalitarianism on Iraq, you now have decided in your letter to Williams to take up the cause of the attempted Time Square bomber Faisal Shahzad.

This is where, you say, political correctness has come into play. The American media, you suggest, are obscuring why Faisal Shahzad and other terrorists have attacked us. In making your point, you quote Shahzad extensively in your letter. For instance, you include this statement he gave during his recent sentencing :

“[Saladin] liberated Muslim lands … And that’s what we Muslims are trying do, because you’re occupying Iraq and Afghanistan… So, the past nine years the war with Muslims has achieved nothing for the U.S., except for it has waken up the Muslims for Islam. We are only Muslims trying to defend our people, honor, and land. But if you call us terrorists for doing that, then we are proud terrorists, and we will keep on terrorizing until you leave our land and people at peace.”

You conclude from this and other Shahzad snippets that “Terrorists aren’t trying to kill us because they hate our freedom. They’re killing us because we’re in their countries killing them.”

Of course, if one actually reads the writings of the modern theorists and adherents of offensive jihad, from the late Said Qutb to Osama Bin Laden, this is not the primary reason they give for targeting the West, at least at the most fundamental level. Sure, Bin Laden once spoke of the American presence in Saudi Arabia (hardly an occupation) and now speaks of the American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But the ultimate goal of Bin Laden and his collaborators, after liberating Muslim lands from infidels — lands that include, by the way, Spain and Israel, according to the jihadists – and  overthrowing “apostate” Muslim regimes, is to create a worldwide caliphate ruled by Islamic law. Think theocratic dictatorship. They don’t just want the United States out of Iraq and Afghanistan. They want the United States out of the White House.

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