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This has to stop
By oceanguy | August 7, 2007
Just a week ago, Christopher Hitchens wrote about the Pace University Korans in the toilet case and said, This has to stop, and it has to stop right now. There can be no concession to sharia in the United States. This week, tragically, he has cause to repeat his appeal, this time, murder was involved.
Members? Employees? Followers? customers? of Your Black Muslim Bakery… offended by unflattering reporting… have a fairly long track record of intimidating behavior towards those who shine a bit of the light of truth on the goings on in and around the bakery. Last week, intimidation turned to murder. This week Hitchens points out the obvious, and makes a few important points:
Now, I’m just asking, but: rape, polygamy, intimidation, torture, murder, all these actions emanating from one address and some of them performed in the name of a fanatical ideology. What does it take before the police decide to raid the premises? Should we wait until unveiled women are attacked on the street or until honor killings or female circumcision take hold?
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Now, again, I am just asking, but what if this racket had been named the White Christian or Aryan Nations Cookie Parlor? (Motto and mission statement: “Don’t F*** With Us.”) I think that Oakland’s mayor, Ron Dellums—who I was startled to find was still alive—would have joined a picket line around the store (as would I). The same would doubtless have been true of Rep. Barbara Lee, in whose district the YBMB was situated. But instead, in its role as a “community business,” the YBMB enjoyed warm support and endorsement from both the mayor and the congresswoman. And the guns for past and future slayings were inside the store.If this isn’t softness on crime, then the term is meaningless. Residents have been complaining for a long time about the atmosphere of hatred and violence—and about what some have called the YBMB’s attempt to “cleanse” the neighborhood, either of godless liquor stores on the model of jihadism or simply of business rivals and journalistic critics. What were the police doing all this time, and why did Chauncey Bailey have to be murdered before they could be moved to act?
This official apathy—amounting to collusion—is undergirded by a culture that cringingly insists on “respect” for any organization, however depraved, that can masquerade as “faith-based.” If I had stood outside that hideous bakery with a sign saying “Black Muslims Are Racists and Fanatics,” I think the cops would have turned up in a flat second and taken me into custody. I might well have been charged with a hate crime. As I have written before and am sure I will write again: This has to stop, and it has to stop right now, before sharia baking comes to a place near you.
Respect… not everyone deserves it. While everyone probably deserves the benefit of the doubt, INITIALLY, there are a myriad of behaviors that rightfully deserve scorn, not respect. No individual and no group should get a pass because they claim a faith connection to aberrant or illegal behavior. That is the great fault and the great danger of the politically correct version of multi-culturalism that is forced down our throats. The associated moral relativism is destructive to the cultures and societies that have thrived as liberal democracies. Excusing immoral, illegal, and other aberrant behavior for reasons of faith or ethnicity or economic status is dangerous for all of us.
Topics: Islamic Fascism |