Now here’s a boycott I can support

Those whiny Imams want a boycott of US Air.

Now, I don’t know about you, but if Jihadists start avoiding a certain airline, that certain airline suddenly becomes more attractive to me.

I don’t see a down side to this. At least not for US Air.

Prejudice, Fear and Profiling

There are many people who think those are bad things. Well, they aren’t. It should go without saying, but nothing does with so many PC folks out there: If white, Christian women in their seventies had made several violent terrorist attacks, then the wanding and pat-down my mother got on her way to visit us would make sense. Since nearly all terrorist attacks in the last several years have been made by Muslim men, it’s clearly provoking when they complain about this kind of treatment.

But U.S. Airways, and those passengers, did exactly the right thing. Their prejudice, fear and profiling were all quite rational responses, and should be applauded.

Perspective

Pop quiz: In terms of your risk of being murdered goes, which is safer, Chicago or any city in Iraq that isn’t Bagdhad?

OK, it’s a trick question.

Turns out it’s about a wash.

Update:

Thanks to those who left comments pointing out the arithmetical error at Powerline. John forgot to multiply by 12 to get the rate for Bagdhad. So it is about an order of magnitude worse there than in Washington, D.C. in a bad year.

But that still leaves the main point I was trying to make: If you don’t count Bagdhad, the rest of Iraq averages out about the same as Chicago. So it’s still important to have perspective.

Useful Idiot Watch

Hard to know if it’s stupidity, hypocrisy, or both. They must be very comfortable living with their congnitive dissonance.

In the end, though, I think I have to call it cowardice. They know that Israel won’t kill them, at least not on purpose. And they must know that their “hosts” would. So they get to make the self-hating part of them “feel good”, while knowing they’re taking no risk at all.

Perhaps Buzz Lightyear said it best. “You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity.”