Salman Rushdie Slams Blame-America-First Left
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Esteemed Indian author Salman Rushdie, who survived a death threat from Iran's crazed Ayatollah Khomeini, is hardly known as a right-winger. Thus his blast at the blame-America-first left is especially noteworthy.
In a piece for the New York Times, Rushdie wrote that "the savaging of America by sections of the left ... has been among the most unpleasant consequences of the terrorists' attacks on the United States. 'The problem with Americans is ...' - 'What America needs to understand ...' There has been a lot of sanctimonious moral relativism around lately, usually prefaced by such phrases as these.
"A country which has just suffered the most devastating terrorist attack in history, a country in a state of deep mourning and horrible grief, is being told, heartlessly, that it is to blame for its own citizens' deaths. ...
"Let's be clear about why this bien-pensant anti-American onslaught is such appalling rubbish. Terrorism is the murder of the innocent; this time it was mass murder. To excuse such an atrocity by blaming U.S. government policies is to deny the basic idea of all morality: that individuals are responsible for their actions.
"Furthermore, terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate complaints by illegitimate means. The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives. Whatever the killers were trying to achieve, it seems improbable that building a better world was part of it," Rushdie wrote.
Let's hope Rushdie's fans in Berserkley, Calif., Mad Town, Wis., Taxachusetts and Orwellian Europe read his words of wisdom |
