This is a continuation of one of my favorite rants. Don links to .
Here's a puzzle: Why is it so frequently the case that the people who have the
most at stake in the battle against Islamic extremism and the most to lose when
Islamism gains--namely, liberals--are typically the most reluctant to fight it?
Don observes:
I can cut to the chase on why this is so. The Blame America First crowd
believes that teh enemy of mine enemy is my friend. They did this 35
years ago with the Blank Panthers and were saved by good police work.
The Blame America First crowd (which now includes the Pat Buchanan
types) can either wake up and join the fight, or someone will wake them
up someday with a burqa over their pointy heads.
That's pretty succinct, yet the vast majority of the liberal/left just don't get it. Denial is not all that unusual, I'm afraid.
I rant about this every couple of months, and have for several years. The irony is lost on those who stand to lose their lives. Picking a specific quote for emphasis:
Consider, for instance, QUIT!--Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism--a group
that, in its hatred for Israel, curiously fails to notice that Tel Aviv is the
only city in the Middle East that annually hosts a gay-pride parade.
Go figure?
[Update below.]
There is another article related to the above.
But my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that liberalism has grown
dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with
what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about
the ultimate ascendance of their faith.
On questions of national
security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious
demagogues on the Christian right.
This may seem like frank acquiescence
to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are.
A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world — for reasons that are
perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad.
The truth is that we are not fighting a "war on terror." We are fighting a
pestilential theology and a longing for paradise.
This is not to say
that we are at war with all Muslims. But we are absolutely at war with those who
believe that death in defense of the faith is the highest possible good, that
cartoonists should be killed for caricaturing the prophet and that any Muslim
who loses his faith should be butchered for apostasy.
Contributed by Zero Ponsdorf on September 17, 2006 at 05:29 PM in , , , , |