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I don't believe Muslim-coddling Liberals are that much of a problem.

1) There's not that many of them.
2) Their influence on actual policy is minimal, if not non-existent.

What I do believe is that the theme that Muslim-coddling Liberals have a great influence on our policy is exactly the kind of propaganda fascists like to spread so that they can exploit fear of Muslims for their own political purposes and to promote their own agenda; an agenda that has nothing to do with national security against terrorist attack, or even promoting modern humane values and democratic regimes in the middle east. Stoking domestic fear of foreign enemies and demonizing them as congenitally evil is a favorite tactic for fascists. I'm not saying America doesn't have real foreign enemies, just that we shouldn't let fascists decide who they are and what we need to do about them.

Liberals have been accused of being soft on crime.
They are condemned for being soft on Communism.
Now they are supposedly soft on terrorism.
They are attacked for promoting profligate fiscal policies, such as deficit spending and high taxes. They are supposedly against free enterprise and want to give money away to shiftless, lazy welfare cheats. They hate the middle class. They are said to not believe in family values and
that they are lazy, cowardly, indecisive, unpatriotic, anti-religious, sexually perverse and immoral. Liberals are supposedly opposed to self-reliance and hard work, ambition, competitiveness, freedom, and liberty. The latest slur is that they are making excuses for and covering up the crimes of Muslims for some unknown, probably traitorious reason.

I'm not saying its impossible for Liberals to be guilty of any of these misdemeanors, just that they are no more likely to be responsible for them than Conservatives are.

We have a Liberal President now, and he is waging war on radical Islam in general and ISIS in particular, real war, with real weapons as well as intelligence, finance and diplomacy. Now perhaps he could be doing a better job, that's a matter for valid debate. But he is certainly not deliberately trying to help them or otherwise make things easier for them. And his policies are not guided by Ben Affleck, even if he refuses to say the words "Muslim Terrorists" in public. Personally, I think that is extremely wise on his part. I don't want my CIC pissing off potential allies, alienating our own Muslim citizens, provoking redneck vengeance and bigotry against them and creating more Jihadists just to give the knuckle-draggers a warm fuzzy feeling.

I'm not picking on you, Buck. Its just that I've heard too many variants on this theme before and I'm quite familiar with it. Cultural relativism, as you have defined it, an irrational looking the other way when faced with barbarism, may indeed exist in people like Ben Affleck, but it simply is not a problem. It just doesn't matter.

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