In the last day, I have read articles that lay the blame for the terrorist massacre at the French journal Charlie Hebdo on (1) the reaction by president Obama to the video that he claimed had caused the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, (2) the lax French immigration laws, (3) the failure of France to more forcefully opposed ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and (4) the upsurge of support for the Front National and Marine Le Pen in the French electorate. Are they kidding? There is really no need to look for anyone to blame other than the Islamic terrorists themselves. They are evil. They are criminals. The fault lies with them, not with French society or American leadership.
The concept of actually putting the blame on the wrongdoers is one that many cannot accept for some strange reason. Think of 9-11 for a moment. After that attack, how many commentators in the media do you recall discussing the question of why do the Moslems who perpetrated the attack hate America? It is the wrong question to ask, however. The issue is not what did we do wrong anymore than it is what did the journalists at Charlie Hebdo do wrong. The issue is how can we capture and punish the crazies, the evildoers who carried out the attack. We need to realize as a nation that, despite the non-stop propaganda about the glories of multi-culturalism, some groups cannot be allowed to follow their social mores. If a group considers the proper response to insulting words to be the death or the person who spoke the words, that group cannot be allowed to carry out that response. Some things, indeed, are evil and wrong. It is not a matter of moral relativism; some things are in their essence evil and wrong. Society cannot simply turn a blind eye to such evil; we need to combat it.
A religion that believes in human sacrifice is evil. So too is a religion that calls for the death of those whose sin is trivial. We have battles across this country whether or not capital punishment for any offense is acceptable. Right now, death is an acceptable punishment in just about half of the states, but it is rare and it is reserved for only the most heinous of offenses. Can we as a nation look the other way at religious fanatics who would impose death as a punishment for the spoken or written word because it promotes multi-culturalism? Must we give a blind eye to those who would kill a woman who was raped because she "dishonored" herself and her family in the name of multi-culturalism?
The truth is that absolute "good" and absolute "evil" do exist. We cannot go overboard with multi-cultural nonsense or we risk losing everything we hold dear.
The concept of actually putting the blame on the wrongdoers is one that many cannot accept for some strange reason. Think of 9-11 for a moment. After that attack, how many commentators in the media do you recall discussing the question of why do the Moslems who perpetrated the attack hate America? It is the wrong question to ask, however. The issue is not what did we do wrong anymore than it is what did the journalists at Charlie Hebdo do wrong. The issue is how can we capture and punish the crazies, the evildoers who carried out the attack. We need to realize as a nation that, despite the non-stop propaganda about the glories of multi-culturalism, some groups cannot be allowed to follow their social mores. If a group considers the proper response to insulting words to be the death or the person who spoke the words, that group cannot be allowed to carry out that response. Some things, indeed, are evil and wrong. It is not a matter of moral relativism; some things are in their essence evil and wrong. Society cannot simply turn a blind eye to such evil; we need to combat it.
A religion that believes in human sacrifice is evil. So too is a religion that calls for the death of those whose sin is trivial. We have battles across this country whether or not capital punishment for any offense is acceptable. Right now, death is an acceptable punishment in just about half of the states, but it is rare and it is reserved for only the most heinous of offenses. Can we as a nation look the other way at religious fanatics who would impose death as a punishment for the spoken or written word because it promotes multi-culturalism? Must we give a blind eye to those who would kill a woman who was raped because she "dishonored" herself and her family in the name of multi-culturalism?
The truth is that absolute "good" and absolute "evil" do exist. We cannot go overboard with multi-cultural nonsense or we risk losing everything we hold dear.
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