An anonymous writer at PJ
Media said this after the Islamic terror attack at a gay club in Orlando:
“I
also now realize, with brutal clarity, that in the progressive hierarchy of
identity groups, Muslims are above gays. Every pundit and politician – and that
includes President Obama and Hillary Clinton and half the talking heads on TV –
who today have said ‘We don’t know what the shooter’s motivation could possibly
be!’ have revealed to me their true priorities: appeasing Muslims is more
important than defending the lives of gay people. Every progressive who runs interference for
Islamic murderers is complicit in those murders, and I can no longer be a part
of that team.”
At first glance, the liberal approach to Islam makes no
sense whatsoever. Generally, liberalism dislikes
anyone who has a strong religious conviction that conflict with liberalism …
which certainly describes every radicalized Muslim on the planet.
Liberals go on-and-on about a ‘war on women’ while Islam
treats women as property. In many parts
of the Islamic world: women are forced to wear burkas or veils; are given
clitoridectomies to take the pleasure out of sex for them; can’t leave the
house or drive without a male relative; and may be raped or beaten with
impunity.
Liberals are obsessed about gun violence (in the U.S.) and often
trash our troops when they accidentally kill civilians in war zones. While in a large minority of the Islamic
world (and a majority in many more fundamentalist countries), innocent women
and children are considered fair game; and terrorists who murder them in large
numbers in places like the Palestinian territories are considered to be heroes.
The Left has gone so insane over imaginary violations of
“gay rights” that liberals are in favor of driving Christians out of any
profession that caters to weddings; and they insist that women have to use the
bathroom with men because the less than .2% of men who “feel like” women would
be uncomfortable using the men’s bathroom. Meanwhile, there are a number of Islamic
countries where being gay is a crime with jail or even death as the penalty.
So, how can liberals continue to turn a blind eye to all of this?
According to Evan Sayet, it has to do with the liberal
emphasis on “indiscriminateness.”
Liberals believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative; that the
only way to be moral is to not discriminate between right and wrong, good and
evil, better and worse, truth and lies … because your act of discrimination (discriminating
between these things) might just be a reflection of your personal
discrimination, your bigotries. They
believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative because its opposite is
the evil of having discriminated. They
believe that indiscriminateness of thought does not lead to indiscriminateness
of policy … which often leads the modern liberal to invariably side with evil
over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those
that lead to success. Why? Very simply: If nothing is to be recognized as
better or worse than anything else, then success is de facto unjust. There is no explanation for success if
nothing is better than anything else and the greater the success the greater
the injustice. Conversely, and for the
same reason, failure is de facto proof of victimization; and the greater the
failure, the greater the proof of the victim is, or the greater the
victimization. Once you understand this
facet of liberal thinking, many of the illogical things that liberals believe
make more sense.
This worldview makes it extremely difficult for liberals to
deal with Islam in a rational way. They
are unable to admit that among religions, Islam has a unique problem with
terrorism, violence and rape. They are
not capable of admitting that there is a particular risk to bringing in Muslim
immigrants. Even when a Muslim tells
everyone he’s killing people because of his religion, liberals can’t
acknowledge his motivation … because to do so would mean that they’d have to
admit Islam has issues.
Until liberals can get past their “indiscriminateness” blind
spot when it comes to Muslims, we can expect them to keep blaming anything and
everything other than religion for the horrible things radical Islamists do.
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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