A surefire way to find out if
someone is severely myopic is to place a hat over his head on which you have
inscribed: 'I'm stupid,' and let him look in the mirror. If he does not yank
the hat in anger and asks for an explanation, you'll know he is nearly blind.
Well, something analogous can be organized to help identify the fanatics in
society, and what they are fanatic about.
Because a fanatic does not realize
that he or she is dripping with the sins they see in others, you may start a
general conversation about sins with a suspect, and observe how they react as
the conversation unfolds. If they attack someone else without acknowledging
their own imperfection, you'll know they are too blind to see that they
represent what they see in others.
In fact, there is now an ongoing
conversation about freedom of speech, and it happens to be about the
sensitivities that various religious and ethnic groups have. As it happens, the
Muslims make it clear they do not like criticism of any religion, especially
their own. They point out that they strictly abide by this rule with regard to
their religion and to all the others. It must also be said that if and when
Islam is attacked by a Muslim or a non-Muslim, a handful of young Muslims tend
to react with violence.
It also happens that Jewish
writers have been among those who most passionately attacked the Muslim
sensitivities. They used the violent reaction of the youngsters to label the
religion itself as violent, and have called on the Christian World to respond
by attacking the Muslim World with military force. That is, they equated
Christian military force with the violent activities of a handful of young
Muslims, which is what plays in the hands of those youngsters. It is so because
the young Muslims see Western “artistic” attacks on their religion as a prelude
to a military attack on their people. And this is the violence to which they
respond with violence.
It looks like this debate will
continue for a while. And so, we may set it aside for now and look at a
consequence of it that everyone has been avoiding. It would be the role that
the Jews have played in the past, and the one they are playing now. To this
end, a useful article to study would be that of Victor Davis Hanson which came
under the title: “The First – and a Half – Amendment,” published on May 12,
2015 in National Review Online.
There, you find this passage:
“guarantees of such freedoms [of speech] were intended to protect … the
obnoxious, the provocative, the uncouth, and the creepy.” And so, you ask
yourself: Where was this guy when the Jews were mad like hell, and suing
everyone who may have gone a little out of line, but was never as obnoxious,
provocative, uncouth or creepy as described by Hanson?
He goes on: “the principle that if
the foul mouths can say or express what they wish, and the public can put up
with it, then everyone else is assured of free speech … Every time the West has
forgotten that fact, we have come to regret what followed.” And he means by
that the wars that ensued. Is he acknowledging that the current messy situation
in America and the world has
its roots in what the Jews have been doing in America during the past half
century?
Most likely not because if that
were the case, he would not have gone on to write an entire dissertation on the
merits of free speech, and the demerits of the young Muslims who wish to stop
the attacks on their religion – then end with the following: “Without free
speech, the United States becomes just another two-bit society of sycophants,
opportunists, and toadies. How odd that we of the 21st century lack the vision
and courage of our 18th-century Founders, who warned us of exactly what we are
now becoming.”
Surely, he does not mean what America has become
as a result of a handful of Muslim kids getting entrapped by the security
apparatus of the country, tried and thrown in jail for something they never did
and would not have done if left alone. It must therefore be that Hanson has
attributed to the Muslim kids the sins that the Jewish Establishment has been
injecting into the American culture over the past half century.