The west has taken many steps towards capitulating to radical Islam and/or Sharia. This is seen by the abandonment of western values that have been the foundation of civilization since the Magna Carta so as to not offend the tender sensibilities of Muslims who do not share the same values of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, individual rights, the concept of the separation of church (mosque) and state, and women's rights.
Steyn, with his usual brilliance that I've missed reading this summer, writes:
When someone destroys a bible, US government officials don't line up to attack him. President Obama bowed lower than a fawning maitre d' before the King of Saudi Arabia, a man whose regime destroys bibles as a matter of state policy, and a man whose depraved religious police forces schoolgirls fleeing from a burning building back into the flames to die because they'd committed the sin of trying to escape without wearing their head scarves. If you show a representation of Mohammed, European commissioners and foreign ministers line up to denounce you. If you show a representation of Jesus Christ immersed in your own urine, you get a government grant for producing a widely admired work of art. Likewise, if you write a play about Jesus having gay sex with Judas Iscariot.
It's amazing to see the left suddenly become ardent supporters of religious rights once Islamic radicals get involved. Had Jerry Falwell supporters voiced such anger or enthusiasm over anything tinged with moral absolutes or family values, the NY Times and Keith Olbermann would be ready to call for public lynchings. But such is the nature of capitulation. Succumbing to fear so often involves forgetting what your values are and replacing those "convictions" with anything that reassures one's desire for self-preservation.
Eventually the left-wing press will be forced to surrender or push back against radical Islam. Although there has been a gradual slide towards capitulation, there will come a moment when the tipping point is viewed by the bleeding heart socialist left who realize that the crazy jihadists don't share their tender sympathies regarding gay rights, artistic license, or whether one can choose to be an atheist.
It is a basic rule of life that if you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. Every time Muslims either commit violence or threaten it, we reward them by capitulating. Indeed, President Obama, Justice Breyer, General Petraeus, and all the rest are now telling Islam, you don't have to kill anyone, you don't even have to threaten to kill anyone. We'll be your enforcers. We'll demand that the most footling and insignificant of our own citizens submit to the universal jurisdiction of Islam. So Obama and Breyer are now the "good cop" to the crazies' "bad cop". Ooh, no, you can't say anything about Islam, because my friend here gets a little excitable, and you really don't want to get him worked up. The same people who tell us "Islam is a religion of peace" then turn around and tell us you have to be quiet, you have to shut up because otherwise these guys will go bananas and kill a bunch of people.
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