Posted on 06/18/2016 3:51:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
"I also now realize, with brutal clarity, that in the progressive hierarchy of identity groups, Muslims are above gays. Every pundit and politician -- and that includes President Obama and Hillary Clinton and half the talking heads on TV -- who today have said ‘We don't know what the shooter's motivation could possibly be!’ have revealed to me their true priorities: appeasing Muslims is more important than defending the lives of gay people. Every progressive who runs interference for Islamic murderers is complicit in those murders, and I can no longer be a part of that team." -- Anonymous at PJ Media
Liberalism is generally hostile to Christianity and it particularly seems to dislike anyone who has strong religious convictions that conflict with liberalism. This describes every devout Muslim on the planet.
At first glance, the liberal approach to Islam makes no sense whatsoever.
Liberals go on and on endlessly about a war on women and Islam treats women like garbage. In many parts of the Islamic world, women are forced to wear burkas or veils, are given clitoridectomies to take the pleasure out of sex for them, can’t leave the house or drive without a male relative and may be raped or beaten with impunity.
Libs obsess endlessly about gun violence and constantly trash our troops when they accidentally kill civilians. In a large minority of the Islamic world (and a majority in many more fundamentalist countries), innocent women and children are considered fair game and terrorists who murder them in large numbers in places like the Palestinian territories are considered to be heroes.
The Left has gone so insane over imaginary violations of “gay rights” that liberals are in favor of driving Christians out of any profession that caters to weddings and they insist that women have to use the bathroom with men because the less than .2% of men who “feel like” women would be uncomfortable using the men’s bathroom. Meanwhile, Islam goes with homophobia the way peanut butter goes with jelly. There are a number of Islamic countries where being gay is a crime with jail or even DEATH as the penalty.
So, how can liberals continue to turn a blind eye to all of this?
As my friend Evan Sayet has explained, it has to do with the liberal emphasis on “indiscriminateness.”
They were raised to believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative. That the only way to be moral is to not discriminate between right and wrong, good and evil, better and worse, truth and lies because your act of discrimination – discriminating between these things might just be a reflection of your personal discrimination, your bigotries.
They were raised to believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative because its opposite is the evil of having discriminated. The second bullet point, and this is an essential corollary, is that indiscriminateness of thought does not lead to
indiscriminateness of policy. It leads the modern liberal to invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. Why? Very simply if nothing is to be recognized as better or worse than anything else then success is de facto unjust.
There is no explanation for success if nothing is better than anything else and the greater the success the greater the injustice. Conversely and for the same reason, failure is de facto proof of victimization and the greater the failure, the greater the proof of the victim is, or the greater the victimization.
Once you understand this facet of liberal thinking, many of the illogical things that liberals believe make more sense.
Why are American liberals so hostile to the rich? As that old quote often attributed to Honoré de Balzac goes, “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” That’s the thinking.
Why do so many liberals seem to loathe America even though we’re the richest, most successful country in history? Because the very fact that we’re the richest, most successful country in history proves we must be doing something wrong and unfair.
Why do white Americans have to be benefitting from racism and “white privilege?” Because white Americans are a majority in the United States and they’re doing better than most other racial groups.
Additionally, this way of viewing the world makes it extremely difficult for liberals to deal with Islam in a rational way. They are unable to admit that among religions, Islam has a unique problem with terrorism, violence and rape. They are not capable of admitting that there is a particular risk to bringing in Muslim immigrants. Even when a Muslim tells everyone he’s killing people because of his religion, liberals can’t acknowledge his motivation because to do so would mean that they’d have to admit Islam has issues.
Until liberals can get past their “indiscriminateness” blind spot, when it comes to Muslims, expect them to keep blaming anything and everything other than religion for the horrible things radical Islamists do.
I think if conservatives suddenly started to love Islam, Liberals would suddenly start to hate Islam. That’s what our politics has devolved into.
Liberalism have a slave mentality
It’s called deconstruction, and is a mental trick of the left to bring down the heroes and ideals of Western Civ. It’s a bait-and-switch they use to supplement them with the fuzzy utopia they promise.
In other words anything goes as long as it furthers the agenda and they have no moral compass or logical thinking processes because every action they do is caused by a reaction based on their feelings. Got it.
It’s simpler than that. The left wants to destroy the US and Muslims have the numbers to do it.
I think you're absolutely right. 100 %...
The said part is so many conservatives fall for their gambit, hook, line, and sinker.
They worship the same god.
What we call liberals today are commonly illiberal folks, and more likely than not, what we call conservatives today are close to classical liberals (though there is an illiberal contingency to be found among them too).
Left and right are inadequate to describe the dynamics of such shifts in attitudes.
Illiberal folks are known for what they hate more than what they love.
Rotsa ruck destroying Islam with ANYTHING secular.
Liberalism is moral supremacy. Moral supremacy feeds the need for feeling superior. It is a superiority complex, I am better then thou...
The Left doesn’t have to win elections against Muslims.
“Why Liberals Support Muslims Who Hate Everything They Stand For”
Because above all they hate America in particular and Western Civilization in general. In the Leftist heirarchy of hate the US is the greatest Satan.
Classic Christian theology knows this as “Boastful pride of life.”
It’s a difficult snare to avoid sometimes. It is the ingrained fallen human habit. I have more than you do, or I am smarter than you are, I am more famous than you are, etc. etc. When having possessions or intelligence or fame are good things, but can be misused to glorify oneself which shuts the glorification of God out of the soul. So those who are blessed the most often do not cut notable figures in the world.
Liberalism is a chronic mental disease and the above article lists out some of the symptoms. We view it as hypocrisy, but it’s really a mental disease.
Years ago, these types were kept in state hospitals, or mental institutions. Many treatments were tried, including full-blown labodomies, shock treatments, etc. All to no avail. Somewhere along the line, someone let em all out and they’ve bred to become what they are today. They are literally the “walking dead” to me.
I view their embracment of islam the same as that of Hitler and the Nazis during WWII. They are utterly evil and have many “useful idiots’ among minority groups. It’s like; “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” sorta of thing.
I’ll go on to say, that IF the truth were known about many of these mass murders, the path would lead to the highest level of government. I think the stunt they pulled in Orlando woke up the LBGT community to the realization that so-called progressives have used them and they are NOT their friends. I think many blacks are starting to realize that the libs have enslaved their people and it’s shocking to them. Hopefully, many more wake up to that fact.
At some point, for the rest of us in society that just to survive, they will need to be dealt with in a massive way and it’s not gonna be pretty. It’s coming....never thought I’d ever see it in the USA, at least not in my lifetime, but it’s here.
Any enemy of the USA is a friend to leftists / liberals - very simple
To some degree. To a larger degree, it has to do with votes and power. While Liberals may dimly perceive that importing Third World types will turn the US into a banana republic (or worse), they also think it will guarantee their power—which is the highest imperative.
The democrat party is made up of a “coalition of the oppressed,” which includes Muslims. Bad behavior on the part of coalition members is given a pass, even when it is directed against other coalition members. Muslims can mistreat women at will. Black males, also part of the “coalition of the oppressed” commit about half the rapes in the country, they are given a pass on their atrocious behavior. It’s estimated that between 60-80 percent of women and girls transiting Mexico on their way to the US are being sexually assaulted, the Hispanic men doing this are also given a pass.
Although the democrats hold themselves out as the champion of “women’s rights” they essentially dangle women as bait to attract the male members of the “oppressed groups” and it has worked for decades. Women have been the cannon fodder of the left to promote and be the human sacrifices offered up on the alter of the “oppressed.”
I see a mirror-image folly sometimes on FR. Oh, once “our kind” was king. But God never intended “our kind” to be king. He intended Himself to be king. He did so on the basis of having the sole qualifications for it, like some arrogate to themselves now without, in fact, having that.
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