WaPo refuses to run article “too critical of Islam”
May 09th 2008Political correctness and dhimmitude combined into one.
Left-leaning journalists don’t just pull their punches when it comes to criticizing liberal politicians, they also seem paradoxically inclined to do so when it comes to discussing radical Islam. This curious phenomenon (curious in that modern liberalism is highly secular and radical Islam decidedly is not) has repeated itself many times over the years and is really one of the most bizarre behaviors I’ve seen in politics.
As strange and morally obtuse that we on the center-right believe the western liberal press to be on this issue, surely the more frustrated people have got to be clear-thinking liberals like Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens who face the task of trying to get their ideological compatriots to stand up for rationality and civil society. It’s a difficult task made even more frustrating by the high degree of self-censorship among liberal media elites. Writing earlier this week at the Huffington Post, Harris (an equal opportunity critic of all religion) recounts how the Washington Post refused to run an article he wrote on the “Fitna” movie that the paper deemed “too critical” of Islam.
Such behavior originates in not just the usual double-standard westernized religion faces but in a very real fear among left elites that criticizing Islam is a physically dangerous endeavor. Unfortunately, as Harris writes, this behavior just exacerbates the problem:
…..In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of the very essay you are now reading was originally commissioned by the opinion page of Washington Post and then rejected because it was deemed too critical of Islam. Please note, this essay was destined for the opinion page of the paper, which had solicited my response to the controversy over [Geert] Wilders’s film. The irony of its rejection seemed entirely lost on the Post, which responded to my subsequent expression of amazement by offering to pay me a “kill fee.” I declined.
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Leftists, such as those at the Washington Post are cowards. They are unwilling to defend themselves using the right to self-defense found in the second amendment of our Bill of Rights - because they are afraid they might get hurt in the process of defending their lives and their liberty.
Leftists, such as those at the Washington Post would take away all Americans right to self-defense as well, because they don’t believe the second amendment; and they would, if they could, nullify that God-given right through Supreme Court Judicial activism – by supporting Supreme Court judges who would, through deciding particular case laws, effectively rescind the second amendment. Such a rescinding of the Bill of rights has a name: Domestic Tyranny.
Leftists, such as those at the Washington Post, would only rely on the law enforcement organs of the state to provide for their personal security - their right to life and liberty. Apparently they realize such protection is not really possible without personal courage and a willingness to defend one’s own life and liberty by bearing arms. So, lacking the courage, and lacking a belief in the second amendment that our founders were careful to write, they have chosen to appease the threat to their life and liberty - they have chosen to appease totalitarian Islam.
Courage is a virtue without which a free nation cannot survive – it is the one virtue that is indispensable for our God-given rights to life and liberty. Without courage one will not defend the rights to life and liberty, and without the rights to life and liberty a nation will enter into either foreign or domestic tyranny. Cowardly leftists are not afraid of tyranny because they believe they can prosper under it. They want peace, but they are willing to have peace under tyranny as long as it is their tyranny or a tyranny which works to their advantage.
Our founding fathers understood that there can be no peace under tyranny – no peace under terror – only peace under Liberty – and that requires courage – and that periodically requires struggle. Our founding fathers would tar and feather the editors of the Washington Post.