Now If We Take Green Alarmism as Alarmism About Islamism...
GLOBAL warming alarmists actually make a great deal of sense. That is, once you imagine that every time they open their mouths they're talking not about the environment but about Islamic terrorism.
Put that particular informational adjustment in place and suddenly even Tim Flannery begins sounding wise. Bob Brown? You'd vote for him in a heartbeat.
And Al Gore's hard-hitting documentary about the Islamist threat - An Inconvenient Faith - might face the occasional bombing attack, but would otherwise be crucial viewing for those wishing to be informed on the great menace of our age.
Let's work through several typical greenoid statements to see this process at work, whereby formerly irrational and fear-mongering comments on global warming (confirmed kills: exactly zero) become entirely reasonable and defensible when framed as statements on Islamist terror (confirmed kills: many thousands and counting):
"It doesn't make sense for us to sit back and wait for others to act. The fate of the planet that our children and grandchildren will inherit is in our hands, and it is our responsibility to do something about this crisis." - former US president Bill Clinton.
For the rest of this article 'Just swap the weather for terrorism' by Tim Blair in The Daily Telegraph (Australia) go here.
Peter C Glover
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