Saturday, November 10, 2007
Judging an Ideology by its Friends
Before the advent of pop-Islamo-Jihad I knew I could always count on those I conversed with on the left to belittle and chastise conventional western religious practices. The Catholic church was their favorite. Often passionate references were made to the horrors of some witches being burned three or four hundred years ago. A close second object of the left's scorn was held for the ignorant clowns of tele-evangelism. People like Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson (total idiots to be sure). I had often heard of the emerging fascist threat posed by some narrow-minded preachers. They didn't cut anybody's head off or fly planes into buildings, but the great danger was always there. They were the religious wing of those other great threats to the establishment of socialist paradise; people who wanted less taxes, a free economy, and adherence to constitutional self-government.
So, what's up with the "tolerance", and often outright sympathy, for the backward violent cult of rigid fundamentalist Islam? This isn't a groundless accusation, one can find such sympathies everywhere, everyday in media, "entertainment," and "education." Among most on the left, Islam is the most chic thing to ally oneself with since the advent of the Che Guevara t-shirt.
What could be more ironic in the left's history of bizarre hypocrisies than their recent sympathies for a religion based on the hallucinations of a 6th century sexist, warrior, businessman? (His relations with a nine year old girl don't count in the analysis because many leftists would consider that a "choice of lifestyle").
I might also add; Does any rational person really believe that the creator of the Universe would "tell" a guy how many wives he can have, what food to eat, and to spread these rules and others "by the sword," killing or torturing random innocents so some backward angry savages can gain and hold power?
Welcome to the Jacobin mind in all its splendor; a stance dedicated to "justice, equality, progress," and tolerance for the greatest threat to civilized open society since the advent of their own failed project -- Marxist-Leninism.
...total fools.
