from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 07:28 PM PDT

If you ask American, Israeli and European liberals and leftists
what the key problem with Islam is, they will answer that there is a lack
of tolerance. Not of course a lack of tolerance on the part of the
throat-slitters, car burners, gang rapists, car bombers and hate preachers
of Islam. On the contrary they will assert that there is a great tolerance
deficit on the part of Western nations toward Islam.

In a rational political calculus, we take for granted that the
people blowing up synagogues, stabbing their sisters to death for wearing
jeans, and kidnapping and beheading people they don't like, are the ones
suffering from a tolerance shortage. But to a progressive brutal violence
by a minority is always a symptom that they are being oppressed, rather
than that they are the ones doing the oppressing.

Since
progressives tend to define minority status as proof of oppression,
violence is simply another way that the minority responds to being
oppressed. So if a pair of well off middle class Muslim professionals
drive a car bomb over to a Scottish airport, clearly they were reacting to
a whole boatload or planeload of oppression. Perhaps they were outraged
over a terrorist being downed by a drone, or saw the name of Allah in an
ice cream cone, or maybe it was all the unveiled women. Those are just
details in the bigger picture. And the bigger picture is that every First
World nation is oppressive and racist. Muslim violence is comeuppance or
blowback, and the only solution is to be more and more tolerant of
Muslims.

Having classified Western nations as always being in the
wrong, and Muslims as being always in the right, where reasonable people
see a failure to fight terrorism, progressives see a failure to fight
intolerance.

Given a mandate, conservative governments will try to
get to grips with violent Islamists. Liberal governments will try to get
to grips with anyone who criticizes Islam. And naturally it becomes a good
deal more difficult to point out that Muslim violence is a serious
problem, when you've passed laws prohibiting anyone from making any
mention of Muslims and violence in the same sentence.

This has the
convenience of making it illegal to point out the stupidity of progressive
policymaking, which is something that their fellow People's Democratic
regimes routinely do, at least until everyone begins starving to death.
Tens of thousands dead in America, Europe, Israeli and Australia has not
done much to chip away at the insistence of multiple governments that
Islam is a religion of peace. And even conservatives have adopted the
liberal mantra that Islamic violence is something carried out by splinter
groups, in response to not being tolerated enough. The solution being more
cowbell, or more tolerance. But so far the "Hug them until they love us"
approach has not yielded any dividends, except more bombs and bullet
holes, and bodies in morgues.

The progressive insistence on a black
and white worldview, and on locating the locus of evil within their own
society, has made it impossible for the vast majority of them to even
consider the possibility that the violent, reactionary, patriarchal and
misogynist ideology they should be fighting is Islam, not Christianity or
Judaism.

But the problem with expecting people to think outside the
box of their beliefs, is that it's simply easier for them not to. For
progressives the problem remains not Islam, but people who aren't tolerant
enough of Islam. Which creates a rush to feed the "intolerant ones" to the
Muslim Crocodile of Peace, in the hopes of being eaten last.

So, Israeli leftists offer up the settlers as the problem.
Europe offers up Israel as the problem. European leftists offer up
European conservatives. America offers up Europe, Israel and anyone it can
lay its long foreign policy mitts on. The Crocodile of Peace grins, chews
and demands more.
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The shocking truth though is that the problem
has never been a tolerance deficit, but a tolerance surplus. Tolerance is
all very well good, but there are some things that shouldn't be tolerated.
Murder, rape, car bombings, airplane hijackings and Imams preaching all of
the above under the green flag of Islam top the list. The more the
tolerance surplus grows, the worse the violence becomes.

Urban
policymakers found this out the hard way when they tried to tackle crime
by blaming society, not the criminals. Prisons became revolving doors.
Cops became social workers. Crime became rampant. It took a new generation
of conservative politicians to pass mandatory sentencing laws, victim
rights bills, restore the death penalty and stop coddling criminals. And
so the tolerance surplus was closed.

Until the tolerance surplus
with Islam is closed, the violence that Islam brings to our shores will
continue.