The outrageous intellectual bankruptcy of the Left is evident in its insistence that any criticism of the historically self-evident failings of various non-White, non-Western cultural regimes, constitutes an implicit incitement to go out and kill those who are in any way racially or ideologically associated with them. Such is the basic “logic” of the Left’s incessant rants against “hate speech” which rarely consider the actual validity of the speech in question.
It is inarguably true that various Islamic regimes today treat women, gays and indeed all non-believers as second class citizens or worse! As imperfect as has been the cultural evolution of the West, it is demonstrably hundreds of years ahead of these regimes in its pursuit of genuine social justice. I make this point not out of some islamophobic mania, but because it is the objective truth!
In an article in the Sept. 16 edition of the National Post, journalist Jane Sims of the London Free Press discusses the 2021 vehicular murder of four innocent Muslims by one Nathaniel Veltman who felt he was doing God’s work in ending their lives. To quote Ms. Sims’ article: The reports out of the United Kingdom about “Muslim grooming gangs,” he said, sent him over the edge…. “I want revenge for all those white girls who have been pimped out by those disgusting gangs,” he said….. “I feel like I had to do it. I didn’t want to do it” but Western governments “leave people like me with no choice” because there is no outlet to meet, discuss their point of view and to protest without being arrested.
The National Post is a decidedly “conservative” [i.e., rational] newspaper and Sims’ piece does not overtly suggest, as is typical of most on the Left, that any criticism of Islam is by definition an incitement to hatred and mayhem. But she comes very close, describing Veltman as “an impressionable young man who had swallowed a recipe of white nationalist conspiracy theories, isolation, alt-right politics, depression and hate.” She engages, that is to say, in gross generalizations which simplistically equate perfectly legitimate criticisms of Islam with so-called white nationalism! It is a Fact and not a conspiracy theory that Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan, in response to the European Union’s open immigration policies, encouraged Muslims everywhere to invade and Islamize that entire continent. That this is seen by “conservatives” as a threat to the radically different values of the West, is characterized by “progressives” as an expression of white supremacism because their fundamental devotion to “inclusiveness” precludes judgments based upon any other consideration, because, that is to say, their ideology is both Morally and Intellectually Null. Blindly love one another! Nothing else matters! Profound!
But is “conservatism’s” defense of truly progressive values in any way an incitement of the sort of horrific crime committed by Nathaniel Veltman? Would that Ms. Sims had differentiated between legitimate criticisms of the medieval values shared by millions of Muslims, and speech that is in fact rooted in an ignorant xenophobia. That she did not is an ironic validation of Veltman’s claim that there is no place for people such as he to even discuss these issues here in this era of the Lobotomized Left. Point out the Fact that Women only got the right to drive a car in Saudi Arabia 5 years ago, and you are a hateful, Islamophobic bastard! Point out the Fact that Men and Women are significantly, biologically different, and you a hateful, Misogynistic jerk. Such is the ludicrous state of political discourse here in the contemporary West where Leftist Ideologues constantly conflate absolutely rational “conservative” insights with hate speech in a tactic that is itself rooted in hatred, a tactic that is no less loathsome than Veltman’s decision to run down four innocent Muslims to make his political point. [That two of his victims were mere children makes his crime even more heinous!]
Some simple, unequivocal facts: Just as various Islamic regimes’ propensity for violence and intolerance, both past and present, is undeniable, so also is the fact that there are millions of decent, intelligent Muslims who do not approve of such. I am in awe of Raheel Raza, a Canadian Muslim Woman and a member of Ezra Levant’s Rebel News Network whose “conservative” focus on the efficacy of Ideas and Values rather than matters of Identity, has led her to celebrate Israel as the most enlightened state in the Middle East. As I have said repeatedly, “conservatives” are Humanists who see Man as a complex, Moral/Intellectual Being obligated to behave as such, while both those on the Left and psychopaths such as Nathaniel Veltman view the species from a reductive Ideological perspective, the former demonizing as “alt-Right Haters” anyone who does not share their sentimental world-view, the latter feeling they have the right to kill perfectly innocent people simply because of their Religion. My point is that, in spite of the conventions of contemporary political parlance, “conservatism” is decidedly of the Rational Center, and the constant effort by the Left and its mainstream media minions to blame it for fanatics such a Veltman, is but an expression of its own inherent Irrationality!