Tuesday, February 14

Dissecting the corpses of cowardice and capitulation

There have been two main reactions in the non-Muslim West to the Cartoon Jihad: defiance and submission. Unfortunately, many of those in the mainstream media in a position to warn the public about the inspiration, nature, and goals of Qur'anic Islam are afraid to challenge its obviously barbaric and irrational overreaction to what are benign illustrations.

Without a shot being fired (at them), many have cowered in silence, hoping to gain the approval of their new masters.

Even worse, many of these craven dhimmis aid the Jihad against their own civilization by employing the same false arguments used by the jihadists and their apologists to try to discredit the truth-tellers. One of those refusing to capitulate to the intimidation of the Not-So-Tiny Minority of Extremists, Robert Spencer again skillfully dissects a false attack by The Quardian (I mean, Guardian) at his site:
Since the cartoons were first published last year, all sorts of people with an axe to grind have muscled in on the row. A posting on the notoriously Islamophobic website, Jihadwatch, for instance, describes it portentously as "a struggle between exponents of a free society and organised thuggery". Meanwhile, several Arab governments - for their own political reasons - have busily fanned the flames in the opposite direction.

OK. So my observing that cartoon rage a struggle between the exponents of a free society and organized thuggery, which it most certainly is, is equivalent to Arab governments inciting their people to burn embassies, kill people, and issue murderous threats to just about every country in the West?

All right. Let's explore that question. How many Muslim cartoon ragers have been killed, or beaten up, or had their homes burned by angry Jihad Watchers?

"Notoriously Islamophobic"? Strictly speaking, "Islamophobia" would be defined as fear of Islam. Which is more fearful -- Jihad Watch, which published the Muhammad cartoons, or The Guardian, which succumbed to knee-knocking fear and didn't? Yes, that's right: I'm accusing the Guardian of Islamophobia.

What's that? Islamophobia doesn't mean fear of Islam, but hatred of Islam? Ill-chosen word, in that case. But anyway it's a false charge. To claim that those who oppose the ideology that led to 9/11, 7/7, 3/11, the Bali bombings, and hundreds of other terror attacks are just "haters" is to have the telescope the wrong way round; the real haters are those who are perpetrating such attacks, and planning new ones today, in the name of Islam. I am not going to be cowed by The Guardian or anyone else from exploring what motivates these attackers, and why they are doing what they are doing.

The resistance to jihad is a struggle to defend the human rights of those who would lose equality of rights under the kind of regime jihadists would like to establish -- particularly women, non-Muslims, and ex-Muslims. The Guardian wants to call that "Islamophobia"? More fool they.