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Islamic affirmative action: Why America is rejecting the liberal left?s response to 9/11.

By Alliance Alert

James Taranto writing in The Wall Street Journal: "The real problem here is that the liberal elite has responded to 9/11 in a totally inappropriate way. When the only tool you have is a hammer, the cliché goes, every problem looks like a nail. To American liberals, every problem looks like the civil rights struggle, the original one of which was their last real moral, cultural and governmental success. That is why the liberal elite sees 9/11 less as a national security challenge than as an imperative for a kind of affirmative action aimed at ensuring that 'inclusiveness' extends to Muslims . . . But whereas white Americans collectively had a great deal to atone for in their historical treatment of blacks, it is perverse and offensive to suggest that 9/11 leaves Americans with an obligation to atone to Muslims."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).