Over at Truth Revolt I expose the latest attempt by Leftists and Islamic supremacists to deflect attention away from the grim reality of Islamic jihad.
In covering the killings in Las Vegas by Jerad and Amanda Miller this week, mainstream media commentators once again displayed their hypocrisy and double standard regarding Islamic terrorism and terror attacks that are supposedly “right-wing.”
CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen wrote Tuesday the Millers “appear to have been motivated by extreme far-right views. The couple left a flag at the scene of the crime with the words ‘Don’t Tread on Me,’ a Revolutionary War symbol used by some anti-government extremists.”
Bergen went on to emphasize that “countering violent extremism cannot simply be a demand placed on Muslim communities to prevent jihadist violence. In the decade since 9/11 right-wing extremists have demonstrated their ability to be just as deadly as their homegrown jihadist counterparts.”
Yet while Bergen is ready to equate “right-wing terrorists” with jihadists, he is much less ready to examine the motivating ideology of the latter. While he readily ascribed the Millers’ murders to “extreme far-right views,” when writing in 2006 about the root causes of the 9/11 jihad attack, Bergen stated:
In the many discussions of the “root causes” of Islamist terrorism, Islam itself is rarely mentioned. But if you were to ask Bin Laden, he would say that his war is about the defence of Islam. We need not believe him but we should nevertheless listen to what our enemies are saying. Bin Laden bases justification of his war on a corpus of Muslim beliefs and he finds ammunition in the Koran to give his war Islamic legitimacy. He often invokes the “sword” verses of the Koran, which urge unprovoked attacks on infidels. Of course, that is a selective reading of the Koran and does not mean Islam is an inherently violent faith, but to believers the book is the word of God.
He has demonstrated no similar anxiousness to exonerate “right-wing” beliefs from responsibility for the violence supposed committed because of them. And at the Daily Beast, “Muslim comedian” Dean Obeidallah went even farther in a piece entitled “Home-Grown, Right-Wing Terrorism: The Hate the GOP Refuses to See.” Obeidallah was certain that conservative views led to violence, and that that was why Republicans had ridiculed the idea of “right-wing terrorism” when the Obama Administration’s Department of Homeland Security issued a warning about it in 2009. “The actual reason Republicans won’t investigate right-wing extremists,” Obeidallah claimed, “is that it would not only anger their base, it would actually indict some parts of it. Let’s be honest: In a time when establishment Republicans are concerned about getting challenged in primaries by more conservative Tea Party types, calling for hearings to investigate right-wing organizations could be political suicide.”
This is the same Dean Obeidallah who recently wrote this about the jihadists of Boko Haram, the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad: “The Nigerian terrorist group that kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls has nothing to do with Islam, and it’s grotesquely irresponsible of the media to suggest it does.”
So an avowedly Islamic group that has repeatedly proclaimed that it is fighting in order to establish an Islamic state is not Islamic, and it’s “grotesquely irresponsible” to suggest otherwise. The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, must have been “grotesquely irresponsible” when he declared: “The reason why I will kill you is you are infidels…The Koran must be supreme, we must establish Islam in this country.”
Obeidallah, who has produced and starred in a “comedy” film about “Islamophobia,” claims that the jihadists are twisting and hijacking his peaceful religion, and that only non-Muslim “Islamophobes” would dare think that anything they do has any justification in Islamic texts and teachings. But the possibility that murderers such as Jerad and Amanda Miller are twisting and hijacking peaceful conservative principles that do not in any essential or legitimate way incite to violence does not cross his mind.
Bergen, Obeidallah and others like them also believe that those who sound the alarm about Islamic terrorism are motivated by “hatred” and “bigotry.” Are they, then, also motivated by hatred and bigotry when they sound the alarm about “right-wing terrorism”? Obeidallah claims that when Republicans passed anti-Sharia laws designed to protect Americans from a political system that subjugates women and non-Muslims and destroys the freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, they “intended to demonize Muslims.” So if legislation designed to protect Americans from “right-wing terrorism” were passed, could its framers and advocates be characterized as “intending to demonize conservatives”?
Why, yes, of course. That is the goal of this hysteria about “right-wing extremism” and “right-wing terrorism”: to demonize and marginalize legitimate opposition to the Obama agenda, as well as to minimize the real threat of jihad terror. Likewise, the goal of the hysteria about “Islamophobia” is to demonize and marginalize legitimate opposition to jihad terror, so that terror can advance unopposed and unimpeded. To trumpet both these hysterias, however, entangles Leftists like Bergen and Islamic supremacists like Obeidallah in a contradiction: they say that the stated beliefs and goals of Islamic terrorists are of no importance whatsoever, and it is “hateful” to point them out. Yet at the same time, they maintain that the stated beliefs and goals of “right-wing terrorists,” or even beliefs and goals that are ascribed to them by analysts and have no connection to what they actually believed, matter a great deal, and it is the nation’s duty to address them and institute remedies.
The hypocrisy is as obvious and stunning as the mainstream media’s cheerful and unapologetic eagerness to traffic in it.
Wellington says
It would be difficult to find in all of history a more hypocritical group than modern leftists. At least “devout” Muslims (you know the kind, the ones who want to conquer the world in the name of Islam and, in total control-freak fashion, well, control everything), with all their faults, are not hypocrites.
By contrast, the modern Western left is. Here’s an example: Look at how leftists aplenty decry Joseph McCarthy and the so-called “McCarthy Era.” They go on and on about how terrible it was that this or that person was “blacklisted,” even though such persons who were blacklisted were overwhelmingly sympathetic to Marxist concepts, if not actually proclaiming themselves a Communist at least sometime in their life. But change this narrative to such blacklisted people as sympathetic, not to Marxist ideas, but rather to Nazi ideals. Think all those modern liberals excessively complaining about the “McCarthy Era” would have ever complained? No way. And therein lies their hypocrisy, to wit, criticize and take measures against a leftist (e.g., Marxism) or perceived third-world (e.g., Islam) totalitarian ideology and you’re a bigot, but it’s OK to rail on and on about how terrible a far-right totalitarian ideology is, with excoriation, blacklisting and vituperation aplenty about these people just par for the course and certainly deserved. HUGE DOUBLE STANDARD. In truth, all should be deserving of criticism if totalitarian, whether leftist, rightist or religious.
Even worse than this hypocrisy, though, by the modern left is that so many on the right are characterized as fascist even though they clearly aren’t. The American Tea Party being a fine example here (Robert Spencer himself being another). The Tea Party stands for less government, the elimination of the national debt, the elimination of the deficit, more self-reliance, etc., and how has the modern left characterized this group? Well, they’re haters of course. Yeah, those nasty Tea-Party people are complete bigots.
Huh-uh. See what I mean?
WVinMN says
Occupy Movement Crime Stats…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2808548/posts
Includes two murders, 10+ rapes, millions in property damage and a thwarted terrorist plot to blow up a bridge in Cleveland.
Not to mention, the majority of mass murderers in this country had at least passing interest(s) in left wing causes (i.e., the Santa Barbara killer was a follower of the Young Turks, a leftwing political group generally associated with 20-somethings). I don’t like to equate political motivation to these psychopaths (they ARE psychopaths), but if the left wants to play this game, GAME ON!
WVinMN says
And lets not forget Earth First, the Animal Liberation Front, International A.N.S.W.E.R., etc.
mariam rove says
leftists and muslims have one thing in common: blame game…..m
Patriot says
Obama us whitewashing Islamic terror http://redmillennial.com/2014/06/10/obama-and-islamist-infiltration/
Patriot says
That was a typo meant is. Sorry
Slobbering Fits says
‘To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.’ Voltaire
EYESOPEN says
That says it all in a nutshell.
Mary says
“Right-wing” violence is self-defense against violent, conquest jihad and intolerant, Liberal/Progressive useful idiot abuse. Self-defense is NOT a crime and is not even a sin. Hate is a sin, even when not a legal crime, and hate is a major component of Islamic jihad and Liberal/Progressive imposition of themselves as gods.
Brian Hoff says
It is alright with you that those two rightwinger murder than policeman in cold blood.
Sarah L Nield says
Sorry about this off topic rant. The good mods may delete it if they like.
I am a worker, a member of the working class, but I can no longer call myself a Socialists.
Because not only are the Left pro-Islam, possibly the most reactionary group in history, but also pro-abortion on demand and pro-killing the sick.
I am fifty years old, one of the sick who bares a life threatening condition that today can be traced in the womb and the woman offered an abortion, and who has seen my old comrades fighting for the right for people like me to be silenced because they are too much trouble to care for in the name of ‘compassionate assisted suicide’ i e when we can be no longer bothered assist to you, then we can give a quick injection and it’s all over. It is for your own good, it can’t be easy for you to even be alive!
These people cry ‘no compassion’ when judicial executions of murderers take place (only in the USA) are the same who would judicially execute someone like me for being an inconvenience.
I am no believer in a God, but Jesus said, take care of the sick, not kill them when they are no longer of use.
One more thing: I ask my mum recently if, given the ‘improvements’ today if she had been told I would never be much use would she have got rid of me. Never! She said.
But then she is eighty-two and comes from a time where people looked after one another and didn’t kill them when they were not able to contribute.