Calling a Spade a Spade

Dennis Prager on Why the Left Doesn't Blame Muslims for Muslim Violence:

There's a certain consistent pattern regarding the worldwide Left's assessment of culpability for Muslim terror. It is the fault of the murdered.

When largely Muslim rioters burned and looted for a month in France, who was blamed? France, of course -- France doesn't know how to assimilate immigrants, and, as the BBC reported on Nov. 5, 2005, "[Interior Minister Nicolas] Sarkozy's much-quoted description of urban vandals as 'rabble' a few days before the riots began is said by many to have already created tension." Calling rabble "rabble" causes them to act like to rabble.

In fact, one way to describe the moral divide between conservatives and liberals is whom they blame for acts of evil committed against innocent people, especially when committed by non-whites and non-Westerners. Conservatives blame the perpetrators, and liberals blame either the victims' group or the circumstances.

We Americans are used to this. For decades, liberals have blamed violent crime in America on racism and poverty, i.e., on American society far more than on the murderers, rapists, arsonists and muggers themselves. Conservatives blame the criminals.

It would be easy to quote the rest , but I'll just say, "Read the rest here."

In the article, Mr. Prager writes of the absolute hypocrisy of the left in journalism toward the recent Muhammed cartoons published in Denmark. Apparently, religious sensitivity is now a tremendous concern of theirs, except when it comes to publishing articles and cartoons that defame and disrespect the Christian or Jewish faith, of course. Why? Because Christians and Jews aren't going to avenge the artwork (term used loosely) by murdering innocents or members of the newspaper.

And yet. And yet, one of the claims I hear frequently from liberals is that Christianity is responsible for murdering hundreds of thousands of people every day. (When asked for evidence of this, there is an unsurprising lack.) They have no problem laying blame at the feet of Christians, if indeed Christians were murdering people by the droves, but when confronted with the truth that it's Muslims that are responsible for murdering thousands of Christians and Jews every day, silence becomes them. But that's only for about two seconds, until they get their bearings and say, "It's Christians' fault. They murdered a bunch of Muslims in the Crusades." Or, "Well, if our policies in the Middle East were more tolerant, that wouldn't happen."

There is no defense for the false accusation made about Christians. Apparently, if they were murdering thousands, they have no reason to do so. But when hard evidence is given that Christians are in fact the ones being slaughtered, in Africa and the Middle East, there's good reason for it. Why else isn't there an uproar over the recent, brutal torture and murder of a Jewish boy by Muslims, who shouted scriptures from the Qu'ran over the boy's screams?

Liberals will mock people of faith for being just that, citing their belief that we don't live in reality. And yet, they're so quick to dismiss actual events and flippantly excuse murder because they either don't want to admit it's going on or they believe it's fully justified. Most liberals also cling tightly to a moral relativist and cultural relativist worldview. Their claims that one culture is wrong in committing fictional murders not only betrays them because of lunacy, it also renders their worldview impotent by contradicting the central tenet that all things are relative.

So, who's living in reality?