Abu Wabu

I didn't even get past the second paragraph of Jack Kelly's Sunday column before I was almost floored by British health secretary Patricia Hewitt's profoundly idiotic utterance: "It was deplorable that the woman hostage should be shown smoking," Ms. Hewitt said. "This sends completely the wrong message to our young people."

In an act of war by a criminal regime, your soldiers have been kidnapped from Iraqi waters while fulfilling a UN mandated mission, after which their rights under the Geneva Convention have been repeatedly violated, and your government is worried that images of one of its illegally imprisoned soldiers smoking a cigarette sends the wrong message.

There's a wrong message here, alright, but it ain't about cigarettes. That is so profoundly, unimaginably stupid that it is no wonder the Iranians, whose stock-in-trade is embarrassment-by-kidnapping, targeted the British for its latest provocations. That monumental stupidity also perfectly illustrates the problem with today's brand of leftist idiot/terror-apologist moron, as Kelly points out:

Some liken liberal appeasers to those Britons who wanted to make a deal with Hitler after the fall of France in 1940. That's unfair to those appeasers. Their attitude was not honorable, but it was reasonable. The Nazis then possessed a substantial advantage in military power. Today's liberal appeasers embrace dhimmitude even though it's the West that has a huge military and economic advantage.

This extent to which liberals are willing to accept inferior status to Muslims even in their own countries is mind-boggling. In Britain, schools are dropping references to the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims, the Daily Mail reported. In Minneapolis, some Muslim cab drivers reject passengers carrying alcohol, and Muslim clerks in a grocery store have refused to wait on customers who want to buy pork products. In several Western countries, some Muslim cab drivers have turned away blind passengers with seeing-eye dogs. (Many Muslims consider dogs "unclean.")

Liberals are not so much terrified by the threat radical Islam poses as they are oblivious to it. A recent poll indicated a majority of Democrats are more worried about global warming than Islamic terror. While many liberals do indeed need to have backbones surgically implanted, more need to have their heads examined.

One dummy dhimmy is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is under the mistaken impression she was also elected secretary of state. She was unwilling to bring up for a vote a resolution supporting the British in the hostage crisis, but was eager to suck up to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

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The infidels Allah is about to destroy, he first makes mad. I suspect that Mahmoud the Magnanimous (as journalist/blogger Jules Crittenden has dubbed the president of Iran) believes this. And with liberals taking his side against their own governments, who can blame him?