The Left

The chorus of lefties coming forward in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and saying "but, but, but..." is illuminating. "They provoked them. What about the West's violence against Muslims?" This sort of thing. We've read the script already. Did the Jewish grocer also provoke Islam? Were the Pakistani school children massacred in Peshawar also provoking Islam? I don't think so.

These folks are Fascist apologists. Plain and simple. Islam has a Fascist wing that believes anyone anywhere who "blasphemes" the prophet can be killed legitimately. The peaceful Muslims, who we are all told are the key to defeating the fascists, are doing an incredibly lousy job at it. For going on 30 years. They lost in Lebanon, they lost in Iran, and they lost in Afghanistan. Now, they are losing in Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria, Afghanistan-again, and Yemen. Probably in other places as well. 

I don't think the Fascists should be under-estimated. They are devoted. They are bloodthirsty. They are resourceful and clever. But their IDEAS and REASONS do not deserve our respect. Their ideas have no legitimacy. Let me repeat that: NO LEGITIMACY. They deserve mocking. They deserve to be laughed at. If you believe killing a cartoon publisher for blasphemy is legitimate, you are wrong and evil. Period. You cannot hide behind religion. We are under no obligation to understand the lunatic theological underpinnings of Fascist murder. This is absurd, self-flagellation. One need go no further than to an insane asylum and speak to a madman. You could spend your whole life debating with him, it would teach you nothing and you would convince him of nothing except that which you already know: he is insane. There can be no compromise or lack of clarity on this point. There can be no "but, he may have a point," "but we may have provoked him," "but, our policies are to blame." These are ignorant points, reflective of knee-jerk Lefty intellectual laziness and a complete and utter lack of historical knowledge of modern Islam or political history. It is, taking the lunatic at his word.

From the article:

But fears of such a backlash need not be an alibi for paralysis, and the longer it takes for the West to find ways to combat the Islamist cancer in its cities, the harder it will be for the vast majority of law-abiding Muslims who live in the West to distance themselves from the poison of a rabid few. Writing in the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, the British anthropologist Theodore Dalrymple observes that "there is more to fear in one terrorist than there is to celebrate in 99 well-integrated immigrants." The fear he refers to isn't merely the fear that the host communities have of home-grown terrorists, but the fear, also, that Muslim immigrants ought to have of them. For the terrorists have it in their power to destroy the societies in which they live, and with it the dreams of those tens of thousands of Muslim men and women who fled to the West from their own benighted lands in search of a better life.