Even though the term “political correctness” is not in use
in the non-English speaking countries of Europe ,
the principle is known to them, and frequently discussed as shown in the
article that was written by Bernard-Henri Lévy, a renowned French Jewish writer
and sometimes popular philosopher.
His article came under the title: “The Distance Between Two Tragedies
and the subtitle: “Response to the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville was swift and clear. Not so
for the horror in Barcelona .”
It was published on August 25, 2017 in the Wall Street Journal.
Without saying so openly, Lévy used the writing technique of
comparing the response that followed the Charlottesville
tragedy, and the one that followed the Barcelona
tragedy, to make a serious point. It is that political correctness, engendered
by the fear of being labeled Islamophobic, is getting in the way of slowing
down the expansion of Islamic terrorism, he insinuated. Here is a translation
of the way he expressed this thought at the end of his article: “Humanity must
confront both heads of the beast … But the fact remains it is necrophiliac
Islamo-fascism that holds life, death, and the future in its clutches”.
But Lévy should have known that this is a false assertion
given that Nazism has been condemned more than anything in history and yet, it
is still around and trying to impose itself on a human race that's rejecting it
categorically. Thus, to shed the fear of being labeled Islamophobic and
instantly condemn what a handful of Muslim kids do, and then sit on our hands
waiting for a miracle to happen, will not solve the problem.
Did Lévy know this? Was it the reason why he did not make
his point openly? Most probably yes, which is why he chose the method of comparison.
But if he knows that condemnation alone will not solve the problem, why did he
go through the painstaking effort of making the comparison? Well, there is only
one answer to this question; it was his subtle way to push a demagogic agenda.
Having written a book in which he argued that Jews must be loved
unconditionally, and that no one else merits being loved, he is now telling his
readers what they must think of their Muslim neighbors, and what they should
feel towards them.
To advance his agenda, Lévy begins this part of the argument
with the assertion that what played out in Charlottesville were: “two visions
of society and the world,” whereas in Barcelona only “hate” played itself out;
the not-so-subtle point being that Islam is powered by hate. And so we pause to
examine this assertion; doing so by asking the question: When does
understandable anger become unmitigated hate?
Being a highly developed organism, a survival strategy that
begins with the feeling of anger, is designed into our system of responses.
Anger is the alarm that tells us there is danger ahead, and we must choose
between fighting or fleeing, and then deciding on whether to retaliate when we
have acquired the means to do it, so as to permanently eliminate the danger and
live in tranquility.
But because anger takes a toll on us, we are also designed
to gradually dissolve it and lose it when the danger has ceased to exist. There
is no doubt that Bernard-Henry Lévy believes this is happening in Europe and America
regarding the Muslim kids who sometimes produce atrocities. And so, he warns
against establishing “false symmetries” because he wants to set all Muslims –
not just the mischievous kids – apart from the rest of humanity, thus
institutionalize hatred for them, and make it a permanent feature of the
Western psyche.
The thing is that institutionalizing hate is not an
invention of Lévy. It is built into the religion that says of itself, it came
into being because a tribe of Hebrews that lived well among the people of Egypt ,
killed the babies of those who fostered them, looted their possessions and ran
into the desert to go steal the land of milk and honey that belonged to someone
else. All that – say today's Jews who pretend to descend from the ancient
Hebrews – is true and real because God is so fond of them, he adopted them as
his favorite children and gave them carte blanche to do as they wish anytime
they want, everywhere they go.
And so, the Jews who hung on to the myth of their beginnings
and kept it alive for thousands of years, now want the hate for Muslims to keep
going till further notice or to eternity. This is how what should have been no
worse than understandable anger on the part of those who suffered during all
their existence, was transformed into a tool that generates unmitigated hate
for those they select periodically, thus perpetuate their own suffering to
eternity.
In conclusion, it must be said that whereas Lévy wants the
world to believe that Muslim kids are powered by hate, the reality is that the
Jewish establishment, armed with a religion that's based on hate, has been and
remains the sole purveyor of hate in the world today.