Is the Right Really Racist?

Last Friday night, during the eve of the Jewish New Year, I had to sit through a rabbi's sermon that demonized conservatives for being hate-mongering racists. The three examples that were brought up were the following:
1) People who discriminated against Muslims after 9-11.
2) Calling Obama a Nazi. (This, of course, was a reference to a poster during the 9/12 protest in DC)
3) People being racist against Obama, and how this perpetuates racism in America.

In short, this rabbi lectured his congregation about not bringing about hate via negative stereotypes, although he manages to do so in the same breath. It doesn't matter if it's a professor, politician, clergyman, or layman, I never cease to be amazed at the Left and double standards. I'm not even going to lecture about Jews putting the Democratic Party before Judaism--that would take at least a three-parter post. What I want to do right now is answer the charges put forward. Are conservatives really ignorant, racist S.O.B's? Needless to say, the answer is a resounding "no!" But what fun would it be just to answer with "nuh-ah" like a five-year old? Let's take the charges, one at a time.

1: People are anti-Muslim because of post-9/11 paranoia. Yes, 9/11 was a very traumatic event for the American psyche. It was the first time since the War of 1812 since foreigners made an attack on American soil. It makes us feel more insecure. I will quote Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, a Muslim, to adequately prove my point:

"It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims."

I couldn't have said it better myself. It is not the Amish or the Jews that are causing this agony (although I'm sure there are enough conspiracy theorists who would fall for the latter out of sheer stuipidity), but rather it's the Muslims. The 1972 assassination of the Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics, the Palestian suicide bombers, the Pan Am flight in 1988, the USS Cole, 9/11, the bombings in Madrid, London, and Chechnya, the attack in Bombay. The common link between just about every single terrorist act in the past 40 years is that they have been committed by Muslims who are driven by a certain interpretation of Islam that seems radical to those in the West. Obviously, every Muslim in the world doesn't want to strap a bomb to themselves and kill innocent civilians. That's absurd! But at the same time, we cannot ignore that the "world's fastest-growing religion," has a deadly fundamentalist strain to it, which, sadly enough, is becoming more and more mainstream as the West acts complacent. When it comes to our own life and liberty, are we really supposed to ignore the sole identifiable commonality about terrorists in the 21st century? This isn't racism--it's about preventing such agregeous acts from re-occurring. Not only should non-Muslims all be on board, but so should any non-Jihadist Muslim who believes that their religion should be protected from such contamination.

2: We need to stop comparing Obama to a Nazi. He never killed 6 million Jews and millions of others. What I would like to point out in this scenario are a few things. First of all, this was one poster out of hundreds of thousands. Second, I never heard any liberals, especially any Jewish ones, bemoan the Hitler mustache on Bush posters at anti-war rallies. And that's when they were being nice to Bush! Finally, hating on the President is about American as apple pie, baseball, or wearing red, white, and blue on the Fourth of July. As loathsome as it is, this sort of demonization goes all the way back to George Washington. Lincoln got his fair share of public criticism, which was an important lesson I learned at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield. FDR was portrayed as a Bolshevik, and Clinton a draft-dodging, sexual predator. And we all know Bush (43) was definitely insulted and demonized enough.

3: Stop hating on Obama because he's black! This is something I've gotten from liberals all the time. I couldn't care less if Obama were white, black, green, or purple! What I care about is his socialist policies and his delusion that Keynsian economics is going to solve everything, when it's only going to exacerbate the current state of the economy, American health care system, and environment. I don't care about the race of the president. I just care that he does what needs to be done to ameliorate the problems that currently plague America.

Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that we would be judged by the content of our character, rather than by the color of our skin. Obama is held up to the same standards as any other man is. A majority of Americans are angry with Obama, it's true. But his skin color has no bearing on that. They're royally ticked off because the amount of government intervention, spending, and inefficiencies are a tangible wake-up call to most Americans. If we don't take a more active role in politics, Obama is going to tread on my rights, as he will with other American.

In all honesty, playing the race card is a last-resort effort used by those Obamaniacs who cling onto cognitive dissonance in hopes that their Messiah brings redemption. It just goes to show which side is truly obsessive about race. Rather than worry about immaterial externalities, let's make MLK proud by examining the merits of our President rather than the look of him.