On June 12, 2013, David Pryce-Jones wrote: “Middle East
Lessons from Turkey ,”
an article that was published in National Review Online. In it, the author
gives his interpretation of what is unfolding in Turkey at this time. And he ends
the article this way: “Throughout the Muslim Middle East, the culture
predetermines the violence.”
What this means is that the author views the “culture” as
being the cause, and that “violence” is the effect. Why is that? Because the
culture is Muslim and Middle Eastern, he says. Does that mean every culture has
its own effect? It must be because the author has generalized his views
everywhere. He did it in the title, did it throughout the body of the text and
did it in the conclusion. And this tells the rest of us we can go ahead and
test his theory everywhere else in the world with regard to other cultures.
In America ,
for example, people kill each other by the tens of thousands each year. In the
military, they rape each other also by the tens of thousands whether they are
men or women. The same thing happens in the prisons. And if someone is still
alive because he has not been gunned down yet, he will kidnap a girl and then a
second girl, and then a third one. He will keep them locked up in his house for
ten years or more, and he will rape them repeatedly.
And so we ask: What does that mean? Does it mean that
American culture is the cause and that rape is the effect? Do people from
around the world risk their lives and cross the oceans to go to America to rape
and be raped? If we reach this conclusion, we should be able to paraphrase the
Pryce-Jones opening sentence and write the following: The rape in America has a
great deal to teach about the Judeo-Christian West, and the way they do things
there. Does that sound kosher to you, David? You started this, not me.
Of course, we can go on paraphrasing what Pryce-Jones is
saying about the Middle East , and apply the
same rules to the Western world. For example, we could say this: Of course it
is unintentional, but the conduct of American rapists is parallel to that of Britain , Austria
and the rest of Europe where pedophilia is so
rampant, men lock up their own daughters and rape them mercilessly. Some get to
be the father and grandfather of the same child. What a culture!
How does that sound to you, David Pryce-Jones? You like this
interpretation? If you don't, you better smarten up because you're not doing
your people any good by being thoughtless.