… and I say you’ll die from it. This latest article by Dutch columnist Mark Spaan in The Guardian is the latest example of tolerance taken way too far. Spaan states, “Few are aware that in the near future as much as 15% of the Netherlands’ population will be Muslim. The old Dutch society so craved by Pim Fortuyn no longer exists. We will have to live with the one we’ve got.” Not only that, the so-called “defenders” of free speech over at Index on Censorship claim that the criticisms van Gogh made of Islam were an “abuse of his right to free speech” and stop just short of saying that van Gogh deserved what he got.
Tolerance has been taken way too far. It has reached the point where there is no tolerance for non-violent criticisms of minority cultural groups, but violent attacks by members of those very groups are tolerated and even apologized for. Of course, this is nothing new to readers of this blog and many others, but it never ceases to astound me how naive some people are. Every day in classes, in newspapers, and in books I read, there is some delusional fool expounding on the glories of Islamic Civilization while at the same time demonizing Western Civilization. They act as if medieval Islamic and Western Civilizations are accurate representations as to how they are today.
The Mufti of Australia stated last February that he believes Australia was discovered by Muslims and you can find literally hundreds of websites that claim that Muslims discovered America (and let me point out that by “discover” I recognize that I am ignoring the migrations and settlement of peoples thousands of years beforehand). The purpose of this is generally to undermine the West’s claims to having discovered them. I can imagine sometime in the near future some Islamist group will start claiming that Australia and the US are in fact Muslim territories because members of their religion might have discovered it, at which point tons of leftists and “human rights” do-gooders will grasp onto this cause and start helping them out. That’s just how insane this whole thing is.
If this is “tolerance,” I want none of it. “No freedom for the enemies of freedom,” I say!
Posted by Arcane at 12:45 AM