Showing posts with label intimidation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intimidation. Show all posts

20110825

If an innocent Muslim is unjustly killed by a Muslim, where is the condemnation?

Israel Matzav: When Muslims kill Muslims
Seven people, including women and children, were killed by a
 Turkish air strike against a civilian car in Kortek village" 

Kurds protest on 8/22/11 to denounce Turkey's latest
 bombing campaign on Kurdish separatist bases in Iraq
"Jeffrey Goldberg wonders why no one cares when Turkey murders innocent civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan.

I'd organize a flotilla in support of the Kurds, but I'm afraid no one would join.

There are two possibilities for why the World doesn't care about this incident and others like it. One is that it's just Muslims killing Muslims, and so long as it's not Jews killing Muslims, the World isn't interested."

20061204

Exempting Hate Speech

Newt Gingrich writes "Blocking the Speech that Calls for Our Death" in Human Events:
The fact is not all speech is permitted under the Constitution. The 1st Amendment does not protect lewd and libelous speech, and it should not - and cannot in 2006 - be used as a shield for murderers.

http://www.humanevents.com/winningthefuture.php?id=18314

The above augments the points brought out by Andrew C. McCarthy in Commentary Magazine last March in
"Free Speech for Terrorists?"

"The nexus in militant Islam between advocacy and actual savagery is no longer contestable. It has been the subject of too much informed analysis and, more importantly, is an empirically demonstrated fact. ...

With an enemy committed to terrorism, the advocacy of terrorism—the threats, the words—are not mere dogma, or even calls to “action.” They are themselves weapons—weapons of incitement and intimidation, often as effective in achieving their ends as would be firearms and explosives brandished openly."

20061201

"Losing the Enlightenment" by Victor Davis Hanson from WSJ

A civilization that has lost confidence in itself cannot confront the Islamists.
Our current crisis is not yet a catastrophe, but a real loss of confidence of the spirit. The hard-won effort of the Western Enlightenment of some 2,500 years that, along with Judeo-Christian benevolence, is the foundation of our material progress, common decency, and scientific excellence, is at risk in this new millennium.

But our newest foes of Reason are not the enraged Athenian democrats who tried and executed Socrates. And they are not the Christian zealots of the medieval church who persecuted philosophers of heliocentricity. Nor are they Nazis who burned books and turned Western science against its own to murder millions en masse.

No, the culprits are now more often us. In the most affluent, and leisured age in the history of Western civilization--never more powerful in its military reach, never more prosperous in our material bounty--we have become complacent, and then scared of the most recent face of barbarism from the primordial extremists of the Middle East.

What would a beleaguered Socrates, a Galileo, a Descartes, or Locke believe, for example, of the moral paralysis in Europe? Was all their bold and courageous thinking--won at such a great personal cost--to allow their successors a cheap surrender to religious fanaticism and the megaphones of state-sponsored fascism?