Your good friends at the centrist board suggest that Pam Geller, Gates of Vienna and Jihad Watch are responsible for the Norwegian tragedy.
Absurd.
As absurd as suggesting that the Tucson killer was motivated by right wing talk radio.
The guy has plenty of mental horsepower (which is not to say that he used it properly) so I prefer to read his own writings on the causes of his radicalization. If one does that, the blogs which are being pilloried seem not to matter as much as the NATO attacks on Serbia, the Norwegian government's reaction to the Mohammed cartoon issue, and his rage at the prospect of an increasingly Islamic population in Europe.
The left wing is in a word taking a few references to these blogs in a very long document and blowing them completely out of proportion. What else is new?
I agreed with the actions in Serbia, but cannot condone censorship with respect to the cartoons. I would note that satire is the most potent political weapon; the Muslims would be well advised to learn how to deal with it by using it. Beats bombs and beheading swords. The increasing population of Europe by Muslims is in my view a serious problem in the making because the failure of the Muslims to integrate and to adopt the customs and culture of their adopted countries. The French, for example, are acting in a completely rational manner by reminding the Muslims that France is a secular country.
But references to a few blogs that point out some truths about Islamic radicalism, Islam itself, and the completely out-proportionate level of violence on the part of Muslims against 'infidels' as the cause of the attack, which by the way took place not against Muslims but against native Norwegians?
Give me a break. The chain of causation is simply not there.
It is of course a wonderful opportunity to rage against conservative bloggers. I think that is the point.
I suppose next time that there is an attack against Jews or Christians in the name of Jihad, we can prepare our comments about the Jihadist blogs, the left wing mollycoddlers, Juan Williams, etc., as the cause. On second thought, no, it would be just as dishonest as what the left wing is doing now. |
