Up Front And Loud
In university campuses around North America - and elsewhere for all I know - the politically correct, the sweet-left who forgive all excesses emanating elsewhere than in the West adhere to the notion that all is permitted in the name of Western self-abnegation. Moral and ethical relativism is the order of the day; perspective is everything, seen through the prism of other cultures and traditions - as though such mores supersede the rigors of moral rectitude.Diversity of background, culture, religious and ideological belief are all vital to the strengths of intellectual discourse stifled, to the great detriment of reality. Leftist academics stand ready and willing to surrender the verities and freedoms of their countries which have given them the opportunities to suborn the very structures and cultural underpinnings that spawned them. True intellectual debate where issues are aired logically and realistically are no longer the order of the day.
Quite simply, there are some topics that are not investigated, questioned or held to reason. Ideology and group identity, particularly with the perceived underdog takes precedence over all that the university setting once held dear: to view the world as it is and to attempt to understand it. Plato had Socrates explain that everything was a mystery to him, so he made every effort to attempt to understand that which stood before him, recognizing his initial ignorance, refusing the nomenclature of honour as a "wise man".
Now comes a new initiative to bring a little enlightenment to the academic discourse by shedding some light on the reality of the world as it is unfolding through the launching of "Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week" in the United States. In over one hundred university campuses across the United States speakers are confronting hostile university communities to bring home the reality of the threats that are poised on our common horizon by relentlessly jihad-bent fanatics of Islam.
"By the end of the week millions of people will have heard our message that we will no longer turn a blind eye to the violence directed against women, gays and "infidels" in Islamo-Fascist regimes. this homicidal intolerance and the conspiracy of silence that protects it on America's campuses, will no longer be accepted", according to the organizers of this campaign to force North America's intellectuals to face up to reality, sans political correctness.
Protesters abound, scandalized at the radical stance taken by these organizers determined to have their message heard. The organizers face intimidation, threats and extremely energetic protests. Yet they forge on, determined not to abrogate their responsibilities. "I left the Middle East because there was no freedom of speech and now I am here and there is fascism", claimed Nonie Darwish, shouting to make herself heard over the loud campus protests at her presence and her claims.
She is the daughter of an Egyptian General in charge of terror raids into Israel from Gaza in the 1950s, (comparable to the types of terror committed now by Hamas) who was responsible for the death of 400 Jews before he was himself killed by Israel's first targeted assassination attempt. Egypt's president Gamal Abdul Nasser asked the-then-child Nonie and her siblings at their father's funeral: "which one of you will avenge your father's death by killing Jews?"
Today she is known as the founder of the organization "Arabs for Israel". She spends her time condemning both Islamic fundamentalist extremists and those among the larger Muslim community who remain silent instead of protesting the besmirching of Islam. By their silence they have become complicit, permitting these jihadist groups to gain power and acceptance as spokesmen for official Muslim communities across the world.
Their success in thwarting good relations between Islam and Christianity, in besmirching the opinions of Muslims against Jews, Christians and Hindus have done irreparable harm to the world community. And it is their signal success at love-making with the secular, academic community in the West, the leaders of our societies in opinion-making, conscience-alerting that is the most troubling issue of this day.
Speak up loud and clear. We need to hear the truth, and we need to hear it now.
Labels: Justice, Political Realities, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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