What is it like to go about life thinking like a liberal/Democrat?
Last year Florida Pastor Terry Jones merely threatened to burn a Koran. The result? Days of murderous Muslim violence. This time, Jones actually burned a Koran. The result? Days of murderous Muslim violence.
But only to a liberal is it not remotely obvious that these days Muslims are always inflamed, as Aaron Goldstein at American Spectator correctly notes:
… So once again the Muslim world is inflamed. But then again when isn’t the Muslim world inflamed? Of course, most of us remember the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie following the publication of The Satanic Verses. While Rushdie is still walking this earth more than two decades after the fatwa was issued, the same cannot be said of Hitoshi Igarashi. If his name isn’t familiar it ought to be. Igarashi was the man who translated The Satanic Verses into Japanese and because of it he was stabbed to death in July 1991. And in case you think the Muslim world has forgotten about Rushdie, there were renewed calls for his death in 2007 when it was announced he would be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Remember when authorities in Sudan accused an English schoolteacher named Gillian Gibbons of blaspheming Islam because the children in her class named a teddy bear Mohammed? She was sent to jail and was due to receive forty lashes until international pressure was brought to bear against the Sudanese government, which released her from jail and deported her back to Britain.
Remember the Danish cartoon controversy? In January 2010, nearly four years after the cartoons of Mohammed were published in Jyllands-Posten, a Somali man broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard, the man who drew Mohammed, with the intent of killing him. Fortunately, Danish police were able to thwart the attack and Westergaard was unharmed.
Theo Van Gogh wasn’t so lucky. In November 2004, he was murdered in broad daylight in the streets of Amsterdam because of his documentary film Submission,which documented violence against women in the Muslim world. Remember what Van Gogh’s murderer,Mohammed Bouyeri, said to his mother in a Dutch courtroom? Bouyeri said to her face that he felt no sympathy for her because he deemed her a non-believer. Van Gogh collaborated on this project with former Dutch Member of Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali who to this very day is under 24 hour protection?
Speaking of violence against women in the Muslim world, it was in January of this year that a 14-year-old girl named Hena Akhter was executed in Bangladesh for having been raped. Yet in the eyes of Sharia law and the Muslim village council who upheld it she was nothing more than an adulterer who brought dishonor to both her family and to her village. …
To this list, Arnold Ahlert at JWR reminds us, we can add former Seattle Weekly cartoonist Molly Norris, who became the target of a death threat following her satiric “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” idea. Ms. Norris is currently in hiding in our own country because of Muslim death threats.
Despite all these facts, the liberati have all blamed Jones for this latest incitement of violence. Some are even intent on violating his First Amendment rights to stop him. On Sunday’s Face the Nation the loathsome Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) said:
Ten to 20 people have been killed. We’ll take a look at this of course. As to whether we need hearings or not, I don’t know.
Um, excuse me, Mr. Reid, but you might want to reread the First Amendment. It’s in the Constitution, that document which you swore to uphold a number of times already.
To make matters worse, RINO Lindsey Graham-nesty (R-SC) joined in the Jones-bashing:
I wish we could find a way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war.
Imagine if this was said when Bush was president! You could people like … well, Harry Reid, screaming that the Bush administration was trying to squelch people’s First Amendment rights!
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t approve of what Jones is doing. But I’ll be damned if I approved of opportunistic politicians (as well as the increasingly feckless Gen. David Patreaus) blame him for extremist Muslim violence and then try to infringe upon his Constitutional rights.
Secondly, I am sick and tired of animals known as “radical Muslims” being absolved for murderous violence while Christians and Jews (particularly in America) are being blamed for inciting violence halfway around the world. You see, both Richard Cohen of the NY Times and Joe Klein of Time Magazine argue that Jones’ burning of the Koran is the moral equivalent of the murder of innocent human beings! As Allen Estrin writes at Dennis Prager’s website, this is what passes as sophisticated liberal thought. (In fact, Prager talked about this yesterday on his show; I believe he said it will be the topic of his next article.)
OK, libs. Let’s apply your utterly convoluted logic to other situations:
When a deranged fundamentalist Christian murders an abortionist, then by twisted liberal logic, it is the act of abortion that is to blame for this completely understandable act of murder. But when such despicable acts occur (and believe me, a vast vast majority of pro-lifers disapprove of murdering abortionists), the Democrat-media complex chastises the murderer and even campaigns for bigger protection for abortionists!
In this country there are lots of things done that are offensive to Christians and/or Jews. Remember the taxpayer-funded work of “art” called “Piss Christ”? Or the one with elephant dung smeared all over a the Virgin Mary. When Christians merely complained—no one murdered anyone and no one set anything on fire or bombed any buildings, just complained—it was the “artists” with whom the liberati sided. Offended Christians were told to get over it, that this was a free country and that the religiously offensive pieces of art were protected under the First Amendment.
With Jews it’s kind of a PC-determined craps shoot. If some artist, celebrity, or college speaker offends the sensibilities of Jews (especially if it’s an anti-Israel message), then the liberal left will be among the first to support the rights (if not the actual sentiment) of the offending party. But if righty Glenn Beck says something that liberal Jews don’t like or Sarah Palin invokes—gasp!!!—“blood libel,” the liberati will be first in line to slap a gag order on them, citing First-Amendment-violating “hate crime” laws.
This curious double standard even applies to non-religious situations. When violence is committed upon the right (e.g., the recent violent protests in Madison, Wisconsin), the liberati will circle the wagons around the perpetrator and believe (either privately or publicly) that the victim deserved it. But when a liberal/Democrat merely faces opposition from the right—think Tea Party rallies—the reaction is completely the opposite: You think for one second that had there actually been Tea Party violence or racist attacks after the signing of the disastrous ObamaCare bill last March that the liberati would have blamed Obama, Reid, and Pelosi for inciting the violence? Hell, no.
So, why in the (very rare) instances of Christian violence do the liberati blame the perpetrators and excuse/support/protect the victims, but in the (very frequent) instances of Islamic violence do they excuse or support the perpetrators?
Why in the (very rare) instances of right-wing violence do liberati blame the perpetrators and excuse/support/protect the victims, but in the (very frequent) instances of left-wing violence do they blame the victims and excuse or support the perpetrators?
Because liberal logic is not based on principle, but on politically correct dogma and politically-motivated result. Only in the twisted liberal minds of Richard Cohen, Joe Klein, Harry Reid, and Lindsey the RINO is a Christian’s symbolic burning of a book responsible for or even equivalent to the wanton Muslim murder of innocent human beings. As long as Muslims are the liberal victim du jour, they will excuse every possible horrific act, from bombing to beheading to stoning to genital-mutilating to raping to burning and—for some college professors and even Obama’s longtime pastor and friend Jeremiah Wright—hijacking planes and flying them into buildings. Everything will be explained away as being our fault.
For this reason alone we must ensure that liberals of this mindset must be prevented from occupying the remotest posts of power.
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