I keep noticing the tendency among some in the Counter-Jihad to demonize the Westerners who persist in whitewashing the problem of Islam -- as though the only Westerner who would do such a thing must be a wicked Leftist (or must be a closet Muslim).
The more important, because more sociopolitically prevalent and
influential, aspect of this general Problem of the Problem (the second
Problem being Islam; the first Problem being the problem of the Western
myopia to the problem of Islam), is not the minority of arguably evil
radical Leftists among us in the West, but the much broader demographic
of relatively decent and intelligent Westerners who for complex reasons
remain stuck in a paradigm that makes them think that it’s the Right
Thing To Do to defend Muslims from “too much” criticism.
To demonize the Problem of the Problem would be, I fear, to steer what should be a civil war of ideas toward the perilous slippery slope of a Civil War.
To demonize the Problem of the Problem would be, I fear, to steer what should be a civil war of ideas toward the perilous slippery slope of a Civil War.
These remarks serve mostly as a reminder to the reader of my previous two-part essay, A Civil War of Ideas.
Ah Hesp, There is going to be a Civil War, but it will be Muslim against non-Muslim - everywhere in the West. It is going to get very ugly.
ReplyDeleteWell Egghead, technically that's not a Civil War but simply a World War where one side, foolishly, has allowed millions of the foreign enemy in behind enemy lines; but I still think we have the ability to manage things to minimize the catastrophe of that slow-motion train wreck devolving. Whether we avail ourselves of our own ability in time, that's another matter.
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