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Sunday, September 17, 2006
The religion of peace
Check out Michelle Malkin for a roundup of how adherents of the "religion of peace" react to the Pope saying that one religion should not coerce those of another religion. Apparently, this offends their tender sensiblities so they are reacting with their usual sensitivity.
This is what happens when the western world reacts with timidity to these constant riots and expressions of outrage over some imagined slight to Islam. Many westerners scrambled to apologize for the Muhammed cartoons after similar riots. Having learned that they will gain the obsequiousness of the west if they just burn enough effigies and churches, they will resort to such measures whenever they want to gin up a new crisis. The more apologies that are issued now and the more criticism in the western press of the Pope's speech, the more we're letting the Muslim world know that they can force us into moral retreat by such violence. And what seems clear is that the press, either deliberately or through sloppiness, misreported the Pope's speech and thus, helped ignite all of this. As David Warren reports,The BBC appears to have been quickest off the mark, to send around the world in many languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, and Malay, word that the Pope had insulted the Prophet of Islam, during an address in Bavaria.Read the rest.
He had not, of course. Pope Benedict XVI had instead quoted, carefully and without approval, remarks by the learned 14th-century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Palaeologus, in debate with a 14th-century learned Persian. He was trying to provide a little historical depth to present controversies about the meaning of "jihad", and his very point was that on their own respective theological terms, Muslims and Christians were bound to talk past each other today, in the same ways as they did seven centuries ago. But in the most conscientious media reports I have seen, even the Byzantine emperor is quoted out of context.
UPDATED: Warren argues that knuckling under to these protests is appeasement to the worst kind of threatening behavior.The manufacture of grievances, to justify strident demands for their redress, is the tyrant's stock-in-trade. It is what took Adolf Hitler to power over the Germans, and it is what today's Islamic fanatics depend upon to control the Muslims, and push them towards an apocalyptic jihad against the West. Moreover, the basic tactic of bullying is to demand apologies for exaggerated or imaginary offences. It is to make the decent kneel before the indecent.Shame on all those in the west who have criticized the Pope and demanded he apologize. They are just tools of those Islamic extremists who seek to keep those in the West constantly afraid of speaking the truth about the danger we're facing.
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Check out Michelle Malkin for a roundup of how adherents of the "religion of peace" react to the Pope saying that one religion should not coerce those of another religion. Apparently, this offends their tender sensiblities so they are reacting with their usual sensitivity.
This is what happens when the western world reacts with timidity to these constant riots and expressions of outrage over some imagined slight to Islam. Many westerners scrambled to apologize for the Muhammed cartoons after similar riots. Having learned that they will gain the obsequiousness of the west if they just burn enough effigies and churches, they will resort to such measures whenever they want to gin up a new crisis. The more apologies that are issued now and the more criticism in the western press of the Pope's speech, the more we're letting the Muslim world know that they can force us into moral retreat by such violence. And what seems clear is that the press, either deliberately or through sloppiness, misreported the Pope's speech and thus, helped ignite all of this. As David Warren reports,
UPDATED: Warren argues that knuckling under to these protests is appeasement to the worst kind of threatening behavior.
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Check out Michelle Malkin for a roundup of how adherents of the "religion of peace" react to the Pope saying that one religion should not coerce those of another religion. Apparently, this offends their tender sensiblities so they are reacting with their usual sensitivity.
This is what happens when the western world reacts with timidity to these constant riots and expressions of outrage over some imagined slight to Islam. Many westerners scrambled to apologize for the Muhammed cartoons after similar riots. Having learned that they will gain the obsequiousness of the west if they just burn enough effigies and churches, they will resort to such measures whenever they want to gin up a new crisis. The more apologies that are issued now and the more criticism in the western press of the Pope's speech, the more we're letting the Muslim world know that they can force us into moral retreat by such violence. And what seems clear is that the press, either deliberately or through sloppiness, misreported the Pope's speech and thus, helped ignite all of this. As David Warren reports,
The BBC appears to have been quickest off the mark, to send around the world in many languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, and Malay, word that the Pope had insulted the Prophet of Islam, during an address in Bavaria.Read the rest.
He had not, of course. Pope Benedict XVI had instead quoted, carefully and without approval, remarks by the learned 14th-century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Palaeologus, in debate with a 14th-century learned Persian. He was trying to provide a little historical depth to present controversies about the meaning of "jihad", and his very point was that on their own respective theological terms, Muslims and Christians were bound to talk past each other today, in the same ways as they did seven centuries ago. But in the most conscientious media reports I have seen, even the Byzantine emperor is quoted out of context.
UPDATED: Warren argues that knuckling under to these protests is appeasement to the worst kind of threatening behavior.
The manufacture of grievances, to justify strident demands for their redress, is the tyrant's stock-in-trade. It is what took Adolf Hitler to power over the Germans, and it is what today's Islamic fanatics depend upon to control the Muslims, and push them towards an apocalyptic jihad against the West. Moreover, the basic tactic of bullying is to demand apologies for exaggerated or imaginary offences. It is to make the decent kneel before the indecent.Shame on all those in the west who have criticized the Pope and demanded he apologize. They are just tools of those Islamic extremists who seek to keep those in the West constantly afraid of speaking the truth about the danger we're facing.
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