James Pinkerton In Newsday seems to have grasped that England isn’t Arabia, which is something that neither the Wall Street Journal nor the President of The United States seems to grasp.He quotes the President as saying: “I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a great British company.” Well, that’s simple; only some of the British are Arabs, while all of the Arabs are Arabs, and after recounting all the sins of the UAE, (which are numerous) Pinkerton adds:

So in challenging critics of the port deal, the president actually put the issue the wrong way. The critics aren’t holding the U.K. and the UAE to a different standard; they are holding the two countries to the same standard. And according to that single standard, Britain and the UAE look different: The British look sterling, while the Arab Emirates look mottled, at best.[Bush won't fight ports deal By James P. Pinkerton Feb 23, 2006]

In the meantimed, via Mickey Kaus, I see that Grover Norquist is saying “The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.”

Grover Norquist thinks bigots ought to be registered? He would.

Three Toledo men were indicted on terror charges Tuesday, another instance of foreign sleeper agents who have burrowed into the heartland [3 indicted in terror plots]. Those immigrants’ American Dream was to kill Americans.

(Last May it was reported that the Justice Department had “charged 375 persons in terrorism-related cases, 195 of whom already have pleaded guilty or been convicted, and removed from the country more than 500 people linked to September 11. “ ["Terrorists will fail, official says"])

At the Toledo Blade, editors published the standard sub-genre of sob story in response: you can’t have a terror arrest article without a fear-of-backlash story among local Muslims ["Toledo-area Muslims ask for justice, fear backlash."].

Dr. Mahjabeen Islam, co-founder and board member of the United Muslims Association of Toledo, said she fears that persecution of American Muslims is on the rise. She said she would not be surprised if some U.S. Muslims end up in internment camps like Japanese-Americans during World War II.

“It’s worse than 9/11,“ said the Toledo physician. “I think this is just the beginning.”

Nothing has happened to these whiners, yet they are crying up a storm. There has been very little backlash against Muslims living in America, yet they continually squawk like they are the victims.

On the contrary, the 3,000 dead Americans of 9/11 are the victims, while Osama and his henchmen threaten to nuke U.S. cities and kill millions. It would be nice if the press and the “Muslim community” remembered these little details.