A good friend brought this to my attention yesterday, and I just couldn’t let it go without some extended comments. This link to some coverage on a recent speech Newt Gingrich made caught my attention for about the same reason as it did my friend’s – the fact that it seems on its face to be a perfect oxymoron.
Since this was posted on Facebook, I took a moment and replied, stating essentially that I understood Gingrich’s logic in this speech. Secularists and atheists (yes, Virginia, there is a difference!) tend to marginalize the potential threat of Islam as an ideology or system of governance. Either it’s distaste for the loudest groups crying about this all of the time (Radical Christian Right), or it’s a matter of not taking any religion very seriously. Motives don’t really matter in this, since the bottom line is that if secularists and atheists ended up taking over this country entirely, they would be unlikely to worry very much about followers of Islam.
So, if they’re not worried about Islam, let alone considering the possibility of its followers attempting to take over the country, it’s unlikely they would do much to prevent it. Our country would be ripe for takeover by radical followers of Islam. And that is why (I hope) that Gingrich linked these three totally different groups together.
Now, if that wasn’t his train of thought…. well, I might be forced to overtly campaign against him regardless what he planned to do going forward on the grounds that he’s either mentally unstable, or just plain losing his ability to think clearly. I’m leaning toward the concept that either he was thinking as I’ve outlined above, or he was merely pandering to his audience. If it’s the latter, while I wouldn’t bother saying much against him, wouldn’t say much for him either!
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