Saturday, August 29, 2009
THE THUNDERING SILENCE
One of the things that most repels me about the left's domination of our public culture is its refusal to address the harrowing, fundamental misogyny of the Islamic world. Start your consideration of this with a few minutes reading this woman's description of the lives women are forced to endure across the Muslim world. Make yourself do it. Then, spend a few minutes reading the comments to the article here to see the kind of apologetics engendered by the moral and cultural relativism into which our public culture has sunk.
Seventy years ago, leftists volunteered to fight the fascist Phalangists in the Spanish Civil War. American volunteers -- overwhelmingly from the leftist intelligentsia -- formed the "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" to fight the fascists there. Where is that kind of militant, transnational defense of liberty today when literally hundreds of millions of women in the Islamic world are denied the basic human rights that the left in the West claims to be fundamental to its identity? Why isn't there a "Susan B. Anthony Brigade" of Western feminists fighting alongside the Marines in Afghanistan?
Could it be that it is much much more important to be opposed to "American imperialism" than it is to have the slightest shred of moral and intellectual integrity and consistency?
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 10:57 AM
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