Just when I think that I’m not such a stranger in a strange land, i.e. the liberal academic environment, I get jolted back to reality. I feel like Klaatu without Gort. Like Han Solo without Chewie, or the chick with the sticky buns on her head. It’s like being an alien getting dipped into a vat of formaldehyde somewhere deep in the recesses of Area 51. For a conservative making observations from the liberal beast there is no better fodder than to write about what is said during the ‘art critique’.
My own work of art was an installation inspired by an international group of women who have spoken out against radical Islam. While not formally associated these women, have written books, lectured and given interviews about the ill treatment of women and gays under the ‘iron Aladdin shoe’. If you are not familiar with Melanie Phillips’ “Londonistan”, Oriana Fallaci’s “The Rage and The Pride”, Brigitte Gabriel’s “Because They Hate” and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Infidel” you must read these books. They lay out an overwhelming case against the activities of radical Islamists as they reject Western values, incite violence and oppress women and gays. Members of the ‘religion of peace’ are now threatening these women for speaking against radical Islam. Well, not Ms. Fallaci anymore as she has recently died from cancer, an event celebrated by her Muslim enemies and like thinking liberal useful idiots.
After presenting my work to the rest of the class, they looked at me like I had a third eyeball on my forehead. How could I not know that the real enemies are President Bush and the rest of his conservative, white, war-mongering, brown-people-torturing, gay-bashing, domestic-spying, lying, cheating, election-stealing haters? It is politically incorrect to say anything derogatory about Islam. The Islamists have both minority and victim status as far as my fellow students and instructors are concerned. Suicide bombers in Israel who blow up buses, schools and pizza parlors are misunderstood freedom fighters, while the Jewish occupiers are no different than the apartheid South African regimes. Just ask that successful ex-Pres and Nobel Prize winner, Jimmah Carter. Christians and Jews, especially white ones, are the real evildoers.
One of my fellow students had a piece called the “The Divided States of America” which included a cut up American Flag that had flown over the White House during President George H. Bush’s presidency. He was given the flag after becoming an Eagle Scout. He said that the nation became divided after 9/11 and that our Founding Fathers would be considered terrorists by today’s definition.
Let’s see, our Founding Fathers issued fatwa’s against the King, traveled to England and bombed banks, markets and other defenseless civilian targets. I guess I missed that class on American History. In my class they told us how British troops were forcibly quartered in civilian homes and the Crown imposed onerous taxes without any fair representation. How Britain suspended colonial legislatures, burned towns, sunk colonial ships, recruited Indians and foreign mercenaries to impose their will on the New World. Since most kids today don’t know squat about the real history, or get it from Jon Stewart, or read revisionists like Chomsky and Zinn, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
So now, who’s the brave one? The guy who cuts up a flag to bash Bush, or women who speak out in the face of death threats and fatwas issued by medieval fanatics? You choose.
