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Peter Carey, one of the six writers not wanting to honor freedom of speech by honoring those who survived the Charlie Hebdo massacre, has now relieved me of wanting to read — even that velleity has evanesced — anything he’s written — deplores “the cultural arrogance of the French nation.”
These six, with Peter Carey’s name leading all the rest, have now failed a test. That test that required several things: a highly-developed moral sense, an understanding of what the Muslim presence in France and the rest of the West has been doing to free speech and a general sense of security, and — above all — the ability to make distinctions which, Jacques Barzun wrote somewhere, was the supreme task of intelligence. Tant pis pour eux.
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One Response
I think they should each receive a Dhimmi of the Year Award, for their cringing cowardice and grovelling eagerness to conform to and enforce the Blasphemy Law of Islam.
Not sure what the ‘prize’ – the booby prize – should be.
maybe they should each be sent framed photos of the corpse of Theo Van Gogh. Rub their noses in what they are justifying and excusing and approving of. Ask them if they’re prepared to state that he deserved to be killed and that the murderer should not have been arrested, convicted or punished but rather, honoured for upholding islamic law and culture.
Each of them should be asked, sweetly and nicely, whether they approve of the Government of Pakistan’s proposal to judicially murder the Christian, Asia Bibi, because of her having had the temerity to offend the sensibilities of her Muslim co-workers by asserting the moral superiority of Jesus over Mohammed. If they had the courage of their convictions – “Muslims must never, never be offended, and Muslims have a right to KILL anyone who so offends” – they would be denouncing all those human rights activists who are trying to have her conviction overturned. Let’s see if they’re prepared to hold up placards on twitter with the slogan “Blasphemer-of-Islam Asia Bibi Must Die!” “Kill Asia Bibi!”
They should also be reminded of the huge Muslim mob that bashed two unarmed Christians to a pulp – the two Christians being powerless, impoverished brick-kiln near-slaves, at the very bottom of the Pakistani social heap, who had dared to ask their slavemaster for slightly improved wages and conditions, and in response, were accused (falsely and malevolently) of having burnt a Quran. Beaten to a pulp but still barely alive the young couple – and the woman was pregnant – were then, by an allahuakbaring muslim mob, thrown into the brick kiln furnace and burnt to ashes. Presumably our six authors approve of this sort of thing.