In our zeal to bring the world to America, we not only bring the interesting aspects of the world’s many cultures we bring the dark side of the culture as well, [I guess that is the ‘multi’ part of multiculturalism]. One of America’s greatest strengths is our freedom of speech and most of the world has little experience with that brilliant and beautiful concept. Silencing us is one of the primary strategies being employed daily by Islamic organizations gaining increasing power in the US.
Just this week the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) objected to a cartoon in the Columbus Dispatch depicting Iran as a sewer with cockroaches crawling out into the surrounding countries. So what! Is NIAC making the illogical leap that by suggesting that depicting the Ahmadinijad regime in an unfavorable way, in a political cartoon no less, the Dispatch is racist? And thereby is propagating hate against Iranian Americans? Whah? Yes, that is exactly what they are doing (they must be using the Democratic party play book—ten easy steps to victimhood). Here is what NIAC says about the Dispatch:
By publishing this racist cartoon, the editors of the Dispatch have insulted and propagated hate against the Iranian American community.
NIAC Board member Dokhi Fassihian sent a letter to the Editors of the Dispatch protesting their action. She wrote: “The bigotry demonstrated by the publication of this cartoon not only betrays the mission to inform your readers, it endangers our country at an extremely sensitive time in our nation’s history by serving to further divide us at home and thrust us toward further conflict abroad.”
According to statistics compiled by Center for Immigration Studies, we have allowed 331,000 Iranian immigrants to come to American through 2005. The latest available statistics on refugees (Appendix A) from Iran put the number of refugees through 2005 at 63,979. That number places Iran in the top three Muslim countries sending refugees to America. What are we thinking?
For more on NIAC, go to Center for Vigilant Freedom here.