Why No Outcry Against Muslims Who Demand Our Death? by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
All of us have seen them. Islamic demonstrators here and in Europe raising aloft posters proclaiming “Death to Infidels,” “You Will Submit to Islam,” and “Holocaust Coming to the West (against Christians and Jews).” Newly arrived in Western countries, these protestors are advocating the murder of the non-Muslim citizens in our countries who are hosting them. Yet there is no outcry against them and no effort to ban these calls for murder, nor police brigades ever ready to imprison those so audaciously urging co-religionists toward the hoped for bloodbath. Is this due to our respect for freedom of speech? I think not, since we all know that crying “fire” in a crowded theater is not protected under free speech codes. We in the West would never allow public parks to be used for agitators displaying placards calling for “Death to Moslems.” More than mere outcry would be incarceration for hate speech and immediate cease-and-desist orders. Given how most of the media censored themselves and high-profile liberal politicians called the Muhammed cartoons unacceptable, one reaches the conclusion that the West is selective, allowing a form of speech to haters in Islam that it would forbid the average citizen.
A society ridden with self-imposed guilt is incapable of defending itself against those charging that society with guilt. A multicultural society which no longer believes in itself and finds nothing special in its own particularism will not fight for itself. A culture that elevates tolerance over its own survival is suicidal. A culture that views dissent against itself as the greatest calling has given its enemies the tool in which to anesthetize the inhabitants. A society cannot recognize an enemy when it’s always pointing to itself as the enemy.
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