Barbarians in the Streets
A violence prone-minority with a bad attitude and no sense of humor. Yep. Seems like you’ve met the Muslims before…
Yes, the humorless Muslims are back and protesting in a city near you. Not only in the nascent pan-Islamic caliphate, but in London, England. That darn YouTube video seems to really be getting under their skin. Ten thousand Muslims descended on Google’s office in London as part of a lead up to a “million-strong march in Hyde Park” to demand a ban of the video.
We shouldn’t be too surprised. We know that Muslims have no sense of humor and expect the rest of us to play along with their lack of understanding of basic human rights. Free speech is still free speech whether it offends them or not.
The best part of this protest is that they call on other religions – Jewish and Christians – to join in a call for civility.
“Organisations like Google are key players and have to take responsibility for civility. You can’t just say it doesn’t matter that it’s freedom of speech. It’s anarchy.”
Sheikh Siddiqui, a barrister from Nuneaton, said he wanted to form a coalition with the Church of England, Catholics, Jewish groups, Trade Unions and even Conservatives to encourage their ranks to join his “campaign for civility”.
“We want everyone in society to recognise these people are wrecking our fragile global society. We want the Church, the Synod, Jewish groups and establishment figures involved,” he said.
It’s a bad joke. Muslims calling on other religious groups that are regularly terrorized in Muslim countries. Christians are murdered and churches are burned all over the Islamic world. Jews, as well, are a hated minority – terrorized and murdered regularly – with the Muslim hope of complete annihilation.
The Muslims are not to be underestimated – they are flexing their muscles in the streets of London. They are testing the limits of a liberal democracy – in the country that gave the world the Magna Carta and John Locke – by calling for limits on freedom of speech, but at the same time using that same freedom to march by thousands in the streets attempting to impose their 7th century sensibilities onto our modern world with the implicit threat of violence.
Self-employed businessman Ahmed Nasar said he was worried the video could lead to violence in Britain in the same way as it had abroad. “If you push people too far,” he said, “You will turn the peaceful elements into violence.”
The western world is under siege in the name of tolerance and “civility”. To accept limits on free speech simply because that speech offends a particular group – to self censor due to fear – is where we are headed by not countering this march. In essence, we are destroying our own freedoms in order to avoid conflict – but unfortunately acquiescence is appeasement. Rather than bringing peace, we are bringing conflict by not making it clear that our western freedoms are not negotiable.
Barbarians are in the streets. Where is Charles Martel?