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by Douglas Murray
• November 30, 2014 at 5:00 am
What
seems odd is this obsession with Israel, with which she has no ties. Yet
this Baroness, who claims to be motivated only by moral outrage, is
considerably silent on the far worse moral outrages that go on day in and
day out in a country with which she does have ties — of which she made a
virtue while in office. Yet Baroness Warsi ignores entirely the horrific
and continual human rights abuses in her own family's homeland of
Pakistan. Whether it is Christians being burned alive or the practice of "bonded
labor" (slavery), Warsi appears utterly unconcerned. At present, a
Christian mother of four is due to be hanged for blasphemy.
What
is far more important is that the obsessions and blind spots of Baroness
Warsi are the obsessions and blind spots being taught to a generation.
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No criticism here... Above: Baroness Warsi meets
with Shahbaz Sharif, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Pakistan, in October
2012. (Image source: UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
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Moral equivalence must be one of the overriding curses of our age.
Even those who are capable of making moral judgements now often find it
easier to make equivalences between sides than to study facts and work
out who may be or right or wrong. So whenever any conflict breaks out,
much of the world can be relied on – from the United Nations downwards
(or upwards) – to call for a cessation of the "cycle of
violence." In Britain last week, there was an especially flamboyant
example of this trend, courtesy of the noble Baroness Warsi.
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