The West's Suicidal Tolerance

Bruce Thornton over at Victor Davis Hanson blogs eloquently about the Koran toilet murders and other issues related to Western dhimmitude. A sample here:

Hence, while we in the West anxiously monitor our words and deeds for even the slightest offense against Islamic sensibilities, we receive in exchange no such consideration; indeed, our eager protestations of respect merely excite more contempt. Thus even as we protest our respect for Islam, Jews continue to be vilified with anti-Semitic rhetoric redolent of Nazi Germany, Palestinian terrorists befoul one of Christianity's most sacred churches, the Al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem still sits on the site of the Jewish Temple, and in Istanbul Hagia Sophia, once one of Christendom's greatest churches, is still a mosque.

Worse still, a whole revisionist history in which the intolerant, imperialistic conqueror is transformed into the tolerant, peace-loving victim of Western imperialism is propagated by self-loathing Westerners whose bigotry against their own culture confirms the Islamist view that we are indeed Godless heathens and spiritual cripples.

Just look at Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, a truly Orwellian reversal of history in which the fanatical jihadists are depicted as tolerant and civilized, the Christian believers are caricatured as either venal hypocrites or psychopaths, and the only good Europeans are those who have lost their faith. The mentality that would spend over a hundred million dollars on this historical lie is that of a psychological dhimmi, the non-Moslem who concedes Islam's superiority and hence right to rule him. That is, the world-view of those for whom appetite and pleasure are the highest goods, flabby tolerance is the camouflage of moral exhaustion, and respect for the culture of the "other" is merely an expression of disbelief in the value of one's own.

Good read, go check it out. Meanwhile I've collected a few links that can be considered my own response to the Koran toliet controversy. Here they are:

Ancient Buddhist statues destroyed by Muslims -- no worldwide riots or murders by Buddhists recorded in response.

One of the holiest Churches in Christendom occupied by Muslims; altar shat and pee'd upon; religious artifacts stolen; Bible torn up and pages used as toilet paper -- no worldwide riots or murders by Christians recorded in response.

Sacred ancient Jewish tomb destroyed by Muslims; ancient Torah scrolls burned; mosque is built on the ruins -- no worldwide riots or murders by Jews recorded in response.

Ancient historical and religious artifacts found at Judaism's holiest site systematically dug up and destroyed by Muslims -- no worldwide riots or murders by Jews in response.

More than 900 churches in Indonesia fire-bombed by Muslims since 1998 -- no worldwide riots or murders by Christians in response.

Hundreds of ancient Orthodox Christian churches and cemetaries defiled and destroyed by Balkan Muslims -- no worldwide riots or murders by Christians in response.

And, lest we think that the West is immune from this sort of thing, a few years ago there was a rash of attacks on Roman Catholic church statuary in the Los Angeles area by a Muslim man -- no worldwide riots or murders by Roman Catholics in response.

I could go on and on, but you've probably gotten my drift by now. I haven't even touched on "tolerant" Pakistan, where murderous attacks on Christian, Hindu, Ahmadi Muslim and Shiite Muslim places of worship are practically weekly events. And then there's Nigeria, and Egypt, where ringing church bells "frustrated" Muslim religious sensitivities so much they decided to throw bombs and rocks at the offending church, and beat up 35 parishoners and then burn down their homes for good measure. Oh, the poor frustrated things, look at what that nasty Israel forced them to do.

With all this going on, the MSM expects us to get all misty-eyed about the horrible trauma suffered by Muslims worldwide over a reported rumor that a US solider threw a Koran into the toilet. Oh yes indeed, let us hang our heads in shame, quelle horreur, we offended the poor widdle Muslims' religious sensitivities.

I mean, get real. In a contest between offended sensitivities, what's worse? Suffering the knowledge that someone may have thrown a Koran into a toilet, or suffering the knowledge that someone beheaded your 26-year-old beloved son and brother live on camera with a dull knife, and then broadcast this abominable snuff film around the world on the Internet for thousands of jihadi psychopaths to download and masturbate to?

Gee, I dunno. That's a toughie. Lemme think about it for awhile. Really.