She thinks — she assumes — that the family of the man who cut off her son’s head is saddened and ashamed, and she feels empathy for them. She assumes — she thinks — that he is an exeption, that his views, his “radicalised” views, are not prompted by Islam itself but by some monstrous perversion of the faith, and that therefore, that This Too Shall Pass. But you and I know it will last as long as Islam. She assumes and thinks that she should offer, and herself believe, the bromides prompted by a diseased sympathy. But they won’t do.
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One Response
Isn’t this one of the main obstacles impeding the West from putting an end to the current jihad? Many people in the West, elites and the average citizen, assume that their standards of decency, tolerance, mercy, and revulsion at violence are shared by all cultures. They simply can’t imagine otherwise.
Of course, the media and school system, and activists put a brake on any reckoning with the truth.
But are things beginning to change in Britain? I don’t really know, and I fear that UKIP might not, out of fear of being labelled, seize its chance to explain things plainly, and relentlessly to the British public.