Free Speech? Free Press? Who Needs It?
February 3, 2006, 5:53 pm |
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By Donnel Jones
Courtesy of Andrew Sullivan, I find this sickening acquiescence on the part of the U.S. government, particularly the Defense Department. It is so outrageous I fear it more than the terrorists who could attack us at any time. When you lose faith in your core convictions (like, you know, free speech, free press, the right to marry a Jew or Muslim, the right not to get buried up to your neck and be stoned to death, the usual rights we take for granted in the land of sanity), then weakness within goads the prowl of circling vultures.
Let me give you some snippets of the eunuch reaction to the Arab world’s denunciation of a free press in Europe.
“‘Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images, as anti-Christian images or any other religious belief,’” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.”
Yeah, but, when anti-war protestors on our own soil hold up placards that compare Israel to Nazi Germany, you don’t hear such qualms about the sensibilities of Jews.
Then this foul morsel of moral collaboration with the enemy.
“Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations, told Reuters he welcomed the U.S. position.”
Then Reuters, which never fails to disappoint, has this to say about it all:
“The United States, which before the September 11 attacks was criticized for insensitivity to the Islamic culture, has become more attuned to Muslim sensibilities.”
Wait a minute! If anything, September 11 has awakened some (and I do mean “some”) Americans to the fanatical horror that is currently the Islamic faith. If we are more sensitive to “Muslim sensibilities,” then it is in the most politically incorrect light as possible: that we are fighting the most dangerous phenomenon of our time, radical Islam.
How painfully ironic that the Europeans, usually so craven, are standing up to the wild demands of an incipient Eurabia while the U.S. caves in to political correctness of the worst sort.
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