House of Eratosthenes

Earlier this month the mosque’s leaders called a meeting with [owner Ken] Friedman at The Ace Hotel, where The Breslin is located, and asked, “Can you move the bar?” Friedman’s response makes us want to hurry over to The Breslin right now for a dram of Laphroaig to show our support (and drown out the voices):

I laughed. And the guy said, “Oh, you think that’s funny?” And I said, “Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because we’re not going to move the bar just because you discovered we’re serving booze.” Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesn’t serve booze? I said, “This is the United States of America and we’ll do whatever the fuck we want.” He said the mosque had suggested it couldn’t control the behavior of “a few bad eggs”; i.e., we could get a brick through our window.

It is, of course, a virtue to show sensitivity to the religious doctrines and taboos of others. But not to the point that such sensitivity erodes the structural integrity of your own culture, on the soil of your own nation. That’s a crime against your countrymen.

Got an e-mail from one of my older acquaintances. It shows signs of being a quote from something else…perhaps here…

Why is it that if you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get thrown into prison and get 12 years of hard labor.

If you cross the Iranian border while out supposedly leisurely hiking in the hills you get arrested and imprisoned.

But if you cross the U.S. border illegally you get a drivers license, Social Security card and free health care?

You’ll see lots of answers under that, but I like mine the best:

Simple prejudice. The crudest kind. Judgments are made about individuals…what kind of story is behind each individual…based on what dirt is under that individual’s feet, and which direction he’s heading.

The guy going into North Korea is thought to be a spy.

The guy going into Iran is thought to be a spy.

The guy heading here from down south is thought to be a hard-working, law-abiding (in the very moment in which he is not doing it), oppressed manual laborer with a hungry family and he’d do just about anything to support them.

All of these things are true in some cases, not true in others. But it takes a whole lot less effort to judge thousands and thousands of people, into the millions, as if they’re part of a single organism with a single story.

“This is the United States of America, we do whatever the fuck we want” is not a diplomatic statement to make, of course. It is lacking in humility. It is cocky and vulgar, bordering on rude.

All of those are better qualities to have, though, than to be so acquiescent toward foreign sensibilities as to participate in one’s own cultural destruction. And singling out a single nation to be held up to some phony standard of civilization-by-self-destruction, is the most deplorable behavior of them all.

The Breslin could use some support. Something to keep in mind if you should happen to live nearby.

Hat tip to The Jawa Report.

Incidents like this one are only going to increase in frequency (and in severity) as Muslims continue to infiltrate our culture and nation, bringing with them their own religious values. Which they try to impose on everyone else. This is already well underway in Britain and at least one attempt has been made in Michigan. It’s a phenomenon known as “sharia creep.” Muslims are notorious for believing that society at large must conform to the way they believe.

Coincidentally, yet another story about this clash-of-culture is on the front page of the foxnews.com website today:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570685,00.html

A muslim woman is upset because her employer won’t let her wear her traditional headdress on the job as part of a “no hats” policy.

I don’t know about you, but I’m already tired of people coming in from foreign countries and then demanding that we change our ways to accomodate them. If you or I tried this in China, Brazil, or even Poland, we’d be laughed at at best, thrown in jail at worst.
- cylarz | 10/31/2009 @ 15:38
Laphroaig is my favorite scotch by a long shot.

I may need to raise a toast with it tonight. It’s not the cheapest scotch in the world — it’s some of the most expensive I’ll buy, so for everyday drinks I drink much cheaper stuff. I save this for special occasions.

And besides, this is America, and I’ll drink whatever the fuck I want! 😉 For whatever reason I want.
- philmon | 11/02/2009 @ 08:43
A muslim woman is upset because her employer won’t let her wear her traditional headdress on the job as part of a “no hats” policy.

I don’t know about you, but I’m already tired of people coming in from foreign countries and then demanding that we change our ways to accomodate them. If you or I tried this in China, Brazil, or even Poland, we’d be laughed at at best, thrown in jail at worst.

Precisely.

Enforced “diversity” means loss of freedom to associate. Private businesses should be able to hire whoever the f*ck they want and enforce any policies they’d like.
- philmon | 11/02/2009 @ 08:54

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