In Human Events this morning, Pamela Geller notes the general indifference to the recent spate of honor killings in the West:
[…] These are the victims of Western apathy and silence, and it’s only getting worse. Almost no one in the dinosaur media talks about honor killing. All those loud mouthed charlatans talk big when excoriating and trashing those who fight for these women and recognize their plight, but they cower when forced to report on Islam. Instead, they search for benign euphemisms for this most brutal and ugly ideology. Thus as the Islamists, the leftist apologists, and useful idiots continue to obfuscate the truth behind these terrible honor murders and attacks, Muslims who engage in such practices are sanctioned by society at large. As the West bows to Islamic supremacism, it’s the women and children, who in Sharia states are nothing more than chattel, who suffer the brunt of it. Our silence, and in effect complicity, has consequences. Honor killings in the West are on the rise.
Where are our cultural mores, our standards, our humanity? Where is our reverence for human life, women’s rights, our unalienable rights?
Does tolerance of savagery trump our humanity and basic sense of right and wrong and good and evil? What is wrong with everyone? Where is the outrage?
Good questions.
Be sure to read it all.