On Oct. 16, a French schoolteacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded outside his school by a Chechen immigrant for having presented cartoons of Mohammad to his students for discussion. While his 18 year old killer was shot dead by police, seven others, including two of Paty’s students, were arrested.
French President Emmanuel Macron defended the Principle of Free Speech and Paty was hailed as a martyr rather than condemned as an islamophobe. The French public seemed to agree. This of course enraged Muslims around the world.
Predictably, on Thursday Oct. 29, three innocent Christians were slaughtered inside the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice by a 21 year old Tunisian who, as seems to be customary in such cases, shouted Allahu Akbar to express the “religious” nature of his act.
The Poster Boy for the morally bankrupt Left, Justine Trudeau predictably, sanctimoniously opined that “freedom of expression is not without limits. We owe it to ourselves to act with respect for others and to seek not to arbitrarily or unnecessarily injure those with whom we are sharing a society and a planet.”
What a great guy!
But wait a minute. On the Sept. 26 version of his show “Real Time,” Bill Mahr referred to Amy Coney Barrett as a “fucking nut,” his epithet clearly an attack on her passionately held Catholic principles. Watch Mahr on a regular basis and it becomes obvious he has no problem with those Catholics who don’t take their religion seriously, but nothing but contempt for those who do.
Have Catholics from around the world called for Mahr’s extinction? Has anyone tried to behead him? Of course not! Here in the West we are civilized!
The vilification of “conservatives” who defend the record and values of Western Civilization is both vicious and relentless in our demented culture, the duplicitous breech of logic behind this assault being the charge that such declarations of pride are always but veiled expressions of hatred for others.
When the Brits, seeking to defend the distinctive quality of their Culture, voted in favor of Brexit, they were summarily denounced as Neo-Nazis throughout the West. They had killed no one. There were no “detention” camps. But the mainstream media launched itself into an orgy of hyperbolic insults. And they did so gleefully!
When a French Canadian woman asked Trudeau why he was allowing illegal immigrants to cross into Quebec from the States with no knowledge whatsoever of their beliefs and values, she was told there was no room in Canada for people such as her! The sensitive Mr. Trudeau, preaching respect for “others,” apparently meant only those outside the realm of the White, Western Hegemony. It is the double standard of Identity Politics in all its absurdity, the principle of Free Speech immediately impugned when such speech is in any way critical of a member of the “other,” while the most outlandishly arbitrary and aggressively hateful of diatribes are apparently justified when directed at those given to defending Western Civilization and its Values.
In the sophisticated Ethos espoused by Mr. Trudeau, we must apparently show respect for those who might possibly decide to behead us should we hurt their feelings, while those who tend to be critical of such barbarism are open to endless, mindless vilification. That’s the way the Left sees the world!