Posted by
J-GOP on Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:09:13 PM
Mark Steyn, the well renowned author of the best selling book "America Alone: The End of the World as we Know it, has written a powerful article entitled, "First they came for Piglet", which dramatizes how pacifistic political correctness towards Islamic jihadism and the worldwide war of terror is impacting life in today's U.K.
In the article, Steyn points to a headline that recently appeared in Britain's Daily Mail newspaper that provides us with a glimpse, that read:
"Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As 'anti-Islamic Activity' To Woo Muslims."
According to Steyn:
So, henceforth, any terrorism perpetrated by persons of an Islamic persuasion will be designated "anti-Islamic activity." Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, unveiled the new brand name in a speech a few days ago. "There is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief," she told her audience. "Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic."
But, by insisting on re-labeling terrorism committed by Muslims in the name of Islam as "anti-Islamic activity," Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.
So much for the famous British stiff upper lip. If Churchill could see how the Nevill Chamberlain-like attitude of the past seems to be repeating itself with today's British citizens, he'd be turning over in his grave. Can you imagine such reporting during the now famous air blitz of London during World War II? Steyn provides an example:
Killing thousands of people in Manhattan skyscrapers in the name of Islam does, among a certain narrow-minded type of person, give Islam a bad name, and thus could be said to be "anti-Islamic" – in the same way that the Luftwaffe raining down death and destruction on Londoners during the Blitz was an "anti-German activity."
But I don't recall even Neville Chamberlain explaining, as if to a 5-year-old, that there is nothing German about the wish to terrorize and invade, and that this is entirely at odds with the core German values of sitting around eating huge sausages in beer gardens while wearing lederhosen.
If nothing else, the lefts attitude toward Islamic terrorism in Europe should provide a glimpse at what could be in store for our country with a Democratic win in November, and send a chill down the spines of both moderate and centrist Democrats and Republicans alike.
Let's hope for everyone's sake, the need for "change" doesn't extend to this country's fight in the war on Islamic terrorism. If it does, headlines like those in the Daily Mail will be a common appearence on the front pages of the New York Times, (which isn't that far off the mark already).