In the wake of the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and
Libya, and especially the murders in Libya, will the Religious Left
defend free speech or align with demands that Islam's critics be
silenced?
Some U.S. religionists seem angrier over the elusive anti-Islamic film that supposedly provoked Islamist mobs into mayhem and murder than over the attacks themselves. That Koran burning Terry Jones, the bizarre pastor of a small Florida congregation evidently touted the film, has also enraged Religious Leftists, who have implied moral equivalence between insulting Islam and murder.
Already fortified by two decades or more of multiculturalism, 9-11 only amplified the Religious Left's zeal for accommodation of every variant of Islam. Radical Islam, with its fierce intolerance for the sexually liberated and free thinkers, not to mention empowered women, should terrify liberal religionists in the West. But the Religious left has fairly studiously avoided direct critique even of Taliban-style theology, preferring more vaguely to disparage religious extremism.
The implication is sometimes that zealous Christians in America are as threatening as al Qaeda. In fact, the Religious Left always has fired far more specific and frequent rhetorical salvos at conservative Christians, evangelical and Catholic, who are deemed the main obstacle to the Religious Left's cultural and sexual agenda. Never mind that ardent Muslims, with widespread support even in moderate Muslim societies, favor capital punishment for sexual malefactors and religious dissenters. The Religious Left, despite its global rhetoric, was always more concerned about domestic politics than human rights for anybody in Iran or Saudi Arabia.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/14/libyan-horror-the-religious-le
Some U.S. religionists seem angrier over the elusive anti-Islamic film that supposedly provoked Islamist mobs into mayhem and murder than over the attacks themselves. That Koran burning Terry Jones, the bizarre pastor of a small Florida congregation evidently touted the film, has also enraged Religious Leftists, who have implied moral equivalence between insulting Islam and murder.
Already fortified by two decades or more of multiculturalism, 9-11 only amplified the Religious Left's zeal for accommodation of every variant of Islam. Radical Islam, with its fierce intolerance for the sexually liberated and free thinkers, not to mention empowered women, should terrify liberal religionists in the West. But the Religious left has fairly studiously avoided direct critique even of Taliban-style theology, preferring more vaguely to disparage religious extremism.
The implication is sometimes that zealous Christians in America are as threatening as al Qaeda. In fact, the Religious Left always has fired far more specific and frequent rhetorical salvos at conservative Christians, evangelical and Catholic, who are deemed the main obstacle to the Religious Left's cultural and sexual agenda. Never mind that ardent Muslims, with widespread support even in moderate Muslim societies, favor capital punishment for sexual malefactors and religious dissenters. The Religious Left, despite its global rhetoric, was always more concerned about domestic politics than human rights for anybody in Iran or Saudi Arabia.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/14/libyan-horror-the-religious-le
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