This is how it’s done

Here’s a recent exchange from the Washington Times comments:

From a “proud Iranian Muslim” (excerpt):

You deliberately and erroneously try to imply the world infidel which initially Osama Bin Laden used to describe the Americans stationed in Saudi Arabia, to project what Muslims use to describe Americans. That is incorrect. However, Osama correctly used that word to label the Americans in the holiest lands of Islam. The Americans had no right to be in Saudi Arabia except for mere self interests and profiteering.

Now here’s the response:

Why is it ok to label Americans in the holy land of Islam? Isn’t that a supremacist notion of what is correct and what is wrong? It seems disingenuous to expect Americans to bend over backward to understand Muslim concerns and consider how not to offend Muslims, but then find it correct to “label” Americans anything but the freedom fighters and food providers of the world.

Honestly, it no longer shocks me that every other terrorist in the world is named Muhammad. So, with respect Muslims, I reject your right to label me in your holy land or anywhere else…Why? Because America is my holy land…it is a land that allows individual rights and individual freedom to innovate and utilize reason and reject violence that we might live to create rather than aspire to destruction. In this holy land of America, we don’t seek to label you, Muslim…but your supremacisms know no bounds…you seek equality while calling us naive…you call us naive while seeking understanding.

My holy land, this city on a hill, this land of an American Spirit and Dream…in this holy land, we have an establishment clause. That clause in our constitution is far more advanced than your Koran could ever be, for it protects citizens from the clerical fascisms possible when the ulema type organization wrangles power and forces your empty mind to accept its “Correct” reading of things. Indeed, the rights of the individual are primary in America…the rights of ALLAH will always be secondary in this holy land. So, think on that Muslim – friend. Think on that Islamic Supremacist. Think on the fact that in this land, in this land of liberty, the right to be a Muslim is restricted to the Mosque – the State and the people have the right to drive Islam’s advances back over and over as a matter of reason. If it is correct for Americans to be called “infidels” when in Saudi Arabia…then it is correct for Muslims to be called “Supremacists” whether in Saudi Arabia or not.

Gary H. Johnson, Jr.
http://unitedagainstislamicsupremacism.wordpress.com